Dyslexia’s Silver Lining

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The world is not set up to make life easy for people with dyslexia. Reading quickly and accurately is a necessary skill in most professions (as well as on the roads and in the grocery stores), and difficulty processing symbols makes reading a challenge for most people with the condition.

Dyslexia is considered a learning disability, but (as with so many conditions) “disability” might be a word choice that says more about societal structure than about the person in question. As Annie Murphy Paul wrote in “The Upside of Dyslexia” for the Sunday Review, people with dyslexia actually learn more quickly than others under some circumstances. Readers with dyslexia identified letters briefly flashed at the periphery of their vision better than typical readers did, and research subjects with the condition are quicker to grasp information from a whole scene or a blurred picture, called “absorbing the visual gist.”

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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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The Upside of Dyslexia

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THE word “dyslexia” evokes painful struggles with reading, and indeed this learning disability causes much difficulty for the estimated 15 percent of Americans affected by it. Since the phenomenon of “word blindness” was first documented more than a century ago, scientists have searched for the causes of dyslexia, and for therapies to treat it. In recent years, however, dyslexia research has taken a surprising turn: identifying the ways in which people with dyslexia have skills that are superior to those of typical readers. The latest findings on dyslexia are leading to a new way of looking at the condition: not just as an impediment, but as an advantage, especially in certain artistic and scientific fields.

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How to Cure Dyslexia: Part 2

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Can a dyslexic actually cure himself of his reading disability? Yes. Anyone who wants to do so can learn how English’s 26 letters stand for 44 irreducible speech sounds, just as anyone who wants to learn to read Russian would have to learn to recognize the 32 letters of the Russian alphabet and the sounds they stand for.

The process is the same, except that if you didn’t speak Russian, someone who did would have to articulate the sounds for you. Some Russian instruction books give the equivalent sound in English of a particular Russian letter. In other words, if you were shown their equivalents in the English alphabetic system, you would be able to articulate the Russian sounds yourself. However, since the letter writer quoted in part one of How to Cure Dyslexia is an intelligent and “posh” speaker of English, he should have no trouble articulating the isolated sounds our letters stand for.

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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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New private school to serve Cobb students with dyslexia

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A group of Cobb County parents and educators plan to open a school in the fall to serve Cobb elementary and middle school-aged children who have dyslexia, reports the Marietta Daily Journal.

Gracepoint School will be a private, nonprofit organization. After graduating from Gracepoint, students would return to their original school systems better prepared to meet the rigorous demands of high school, officials said. A permanent location has not yet been determined. Until then, class will be held at StoneBridge Church.

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