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third grader overcomes dyslexia to win national poetry contest

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A poem about his battle with dyslexia led a Klein ISD third grader to win a national poetry contest.

“Dyslexia is like a blueprint that I have to finish. It’s like a disease that never goes away. When I miss a word it feels like a tower that I have to destroy. Reading out loud is hard. It’s like being stuck in traffic on a huge highway with angry old men honking at me. When I draw, I forget about towers and honking horns. I am in my own world of Paper Craft People and me,” wrote nine-year-old Peyton Bolden.

Peyton always knew he was smart, just in a different way than his peers. When he was in first grade, Susan Collier, reading specialist at Mittelstädt Elementary, also took notice. Peyton was extremely shy, had speech problems, and was having a harder time with comprehension and learning in the classroom. Having seen it all before, Collier soon diagnosed Peyton with dyslexia during his second grade year.

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Living with Dyslexia: Anna Franz story

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When Anna Franz, a 23-year-old UAB exchange student from Munich, Germany, was in elementary school, she desperately told her mother: “Mommy, I think there is only space for one word in my head.” She realized that she had much more difficulty learning how to read and write than most other children of her age.

Franz is one of several persons in her family to struggle from dyslexia, a reading and writing disorder.

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Angie Le Mar, comedian

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Being dyslexic. I trained as an actor, but because of my dyslexia I have great trouble sight-reading. So I kept going to auditions and not getting the roles. Then one day I went to a comedy club and asked if I could tell some jokes. It was 27 years ago, when there were no black British female standups. I became the first.

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Coping with dyslexia focuses Olympic marathoner

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Long distance runner Eric Gillis knows about focusing on goals.   After struggling through school because of dyslexia, Gillis found running to be “the carrot” that got him on to university.

He won’t stop running until he gets to London, where anything and everything is possible.

Gillis takes part in this Sunday’s Half Marathon Championships, the Banque Scotia 21 K de Montreal.

He feels a special connection to Montreal, even before his lucky day at an Expos game.  Maybe that’s a good omen before he heads to the Summer Games.

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The dyslexia racket and the alternative

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Shortly after I started teaching in a secondary school, in the early seventies, I had a conversation with an eleven year old who had “bunked off” my English class, and who, I discovered, could not read. No-one had told me about this when I took over the class – a colleague asked me if I didn’t believe in “self-fulfilling prophecies” – and the deputy head told me with equanimity that “lots of boys in the first year can’t read”.

My response was to become a reading teacher, and from that time onward, I’ve been doing all I can to teach reading and other aspects of literacy as effectively as possible so that people will be able to read, with their problems either knocked out or severely cut down. After a few years, a certain amount of success and a couple of articles, I was introduced to an American book written during World War Two, with the educationally unfashionable title Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects, whose author, Grace Fernald, had developed simple and effective approaches to serious reading difficulties, including some caused by brain damage. She had done equally good work on basic arithmetic, and her insights into foreign languages coincided with work I’d done with children who had been failing in French (my degree subject).

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