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Multiple circumstances in Gail Douglas’ life led her to become a special education teacher.
She had been diagnosed with dyslexia. Her mother was a speech pathologist, and her father was a social worker.
For the past 16 years, she taught job skills and life skills to her Coronado High School special education students while making them a part of the school environment.
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When Nancy Ruhmel learned that she had ovarian cancer and would need chemotherapy, the first thing she did was to contact her students.
She already had retired after more than 30 years teaching children with learning disabilities in the Allentown School District. But she was still surrounded by youth who needed help. They were herdyslexic students whom she tutored from her home office.
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Douglas Booth, who has just starred as Pip in BBC1’s hit version of Great Expectations, only took up acting as he feared his dyslexia would block other careers.
Now, following his lead role in the classy Dickens adaptation, hordes of girls are demanding to know where he has come from.
Twitter has gone into meltdown, with female fans feverishly declaring their adoration for the 19-year-old.
One wrote: “I can’t cope with how beautiful he is. It hurts.”
Another said: “How many women were crying out for Pip to have a Mr Darcy moment in the water just then?!”
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Bella Thorne shared details about her Dyslexia in a “The Time I” Disney Channel segment. Watch the clip below to see how Bella found out she had Dyslexia and how her family worked with her to conquer her trouble reading and writing.
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Annabel Heseltine, the daughter of Tory grandee Lord Heseltine, will tell the Girls’ Schools Association that although boys are disproportionately identified with dyslexia, research suggests the learning difficulty is as common in girls.
Ms Heseltine, whose daughter and three sons as well as her brother and father all have the condition, believes she too may be dyslexic and is considering having a diagnostic test.
“It was only when I came across some old school reports of mine and saw various comments about lack of development, lack of co-ordination of ideas and an inability to communicate properly, that I thought I may well have mild dyslexia,” said the 48 year-old, editor of First Eleven magazine, for parents with children in independent schools.
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A STUDENT who used to nod off in class has overcome a rare sleep disorder to be awarded a doctorate.
Eve Bird, 31, left school with no qualifications because she was too sleepy to concentrate.
Her teachers put her symptoms down to being a lazy teenager.
But she was suffering from sleep narcolepsy – which makes people drop off at inappropriate times.
Eve only discovered she had the chronic condition after completing an honours degree in microbiology and biotechnology at Edinburgh’s Napier University.
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