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DYSLEXIA AND WRITING

Monday, a friend forwarded a Feb. 4 New York Times article to me titled “The Upside of Dyslexia,” written by Annie Murphy Paul. He did so because he knows I have dyslexia and thought I would find the article interesting.He was right, to say the least.

Dyslexia appears as a motif in all five of my Jack Austin novels, as protagonist Austin and the teenage boy he takes in, Nash Henley, both struggle with the affliction. And, as many readers have guessed, their struggles are based on my own. However, my books also illustrate what I have long believed, as Austin says in more than one book, “Dyslexia is a blessing.”

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Ask Lorna: how can I get my dyslexic son reading?

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 I’ve been taken aback by the number of questions I’ve received over the past few weeks asking for advice about how to inspire reluctant readers, usually boys of 10 and above, as well as recommendations for children with dyslexia.

Clearly these are huge and often interlinked issues, to which I’ll be returning over the coming weeks, but I thought I’d start with a question at the extreme end of the dyslexia spectrum.

You don’t say whether you’ve tried any of the books from the specialist dyslexic publishers, such as Barrington Stoke or the Edge list at Franklin Watts, but I would definitely recommend these as places to start.

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The inspiring story of a boy who fought dyslexia

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Maitrik Kamdar, an SYBCom student from KC College, Mumbai recounts how he emerged as a dedicated student and an aspiring businessman from being a troublesome child.

I started out as a normal school-going child; only, I was labelled a brat for not doing homework or not listening completely to my teachers or parents.

It was not entirely unfounded; I had become one of those kids who did not want to listen to anything my elders said.

Since there was nothing to praise about me, all I got to hear about was my ‘bad’ behaviour with examples of model children and how I should become like them. I had no intention of listening to that!

There was a time when I would shut out and not listen to anything, like when someone said ‘ek kan ke andar aur doosre kaan se bahar‘? I had become so thick-skinned that my unrevealed motto had become ‘Kaan ke andar hi mat jaane do!’ The reason was beyond me though and I never understood why I was like that.

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Project Read helps students turn the page

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Steve Hupp likes solving problems, and at 27 years old, he has seen more than his fair share. Hupp has been in and out of hospitals since childhood, making it difficult for him to focus on school. To make it worse, he also is dyslexic.

Hupp dropped out of school in the 11th grade.

“Some places wouldn’t even give me an application,” he said about his search for a job. “I had doors close on me. I even had girlfriends break up with me.”

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“My Dyslexia” by Philip Schultz

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It would probably come as a major shock for any middle-aged adult to find out that he has a learning disorder. But what if that man was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and the disorder was dyslexia, which fundamentally affects one’s ability to process language? That is precisely what happened to Philip Schultz, a writer whose self-worth and self-understanding were rocked by the relatively late-in-life discovery.

In his new memoir, “My Dyslexia,” Schultz shares what it was like to grow up as a member of what he calls the “dummy class”

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