Dyslexia isn’t stopping three local middle school students from pursuing their dreams.
Dyslexia affects the way the brain processes words and letters, often making reading and comprehension more challenging.
But siblings Dane Kute, Savannah Kute and Ruby Kute aren’t letting dyslexia stand in the way of their dreams of becoming authors and creators. Together, the trio has written 12 books, all available on Amazon.
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Northamptonshire author and life coach John Knight has released his new self-help book, The Importance of You. Overcoming severe childhood dyslexia, bullying, and life setbacks, John shares his journey of turning personal struggles into a message of hope and empowerment for others.
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I didn’t realize my ability until I started Politico and Axios. I’d been very successful in sales and consulting, but I hadn’t realized exactly why. Then I learned that dyslexic thinkers tend to be great at understanding complex issues and boiling them down to something most people can understand. This helped me in sales, management and, most importantly, leadership.
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When Westborough resident Kaitlyn Zogg was young, she struggled to understand why she couldn’t pick up spelling like her peers. At age 10, she was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disability that affects a person’s ability to read, write, and spell.
Now 17 and a rising senior at Notre Dame Academy, Zogg has learned to adopt a positive mindset and, working with her parents Matt and Christina, has strengthened her skills considerably. In June, Zogg founded “Soaring With Dyslexia,” an effort to help people dealing with similar challenges thrive. The project helped her earn the Girl Scout Gold Award.
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The exercises did not replicate dyslexia itself. Instead, they disrupted skills adults, and children without dyslexia or other learning disabilities, normally take for granted — hearing directions, recognizing letters, writing and remembering words — while instructors applied pressure familiar to many classrooms.
Participants rotated through six stations. In one, they attempted to fill out a worksheet on tide pools while listening to a recording of overlapping, muffled voices that dissolved into a blur of numbers, colors and sea creatures. In another, they covered their writing hand and traced letters by watching their movements through a mirror.
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