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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Dyslexia’s coloured answer

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MANY children are falling under the radar.

Four out of every 30 students are likely to be suffering from visual dyslexia.

Often referred to as Irlen Syndrome, it is a specific and common form of dyslexia frequently overlooked by optometrists and in the education system.

Dr Peter Freney from Irlen Diagnostic Clinic in Buderim is calling on Queensland schools to get educated on the matter.

“In Australia we don’t do dyslexia very well,” he said.

“It needs better recognition in schools and there is a lot of room for teacher education for them to understand the process better.”

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Dyslexic work is praised

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A leading college has been officially honoured for the extra help it provides for students with dyslexia.

 

Runshaw College, in Leyland, is the first college in the county and one of only a handful of places nationally, to receive the British Dyslexia Association dyslexia friendly accreditation kite mark.

The accolade follows work done by the Langdale Road college’s Study Support Unit who work to help students overcome problems.

Ann-Marie McNicholas, HE/FE teaching and dyslexia co-ordinator, study support, said students are referred by personal tutors to make self referrals if they have problems with coping with their studies and various tests are done to find out both the cause and ways of helping students cope.

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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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