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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How to Cure Dyslexia

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Some time ago I received a letter from England that was written by an intelligent, accomplished and motivated adult who had a “reading problem.” He had been taught to read by the look-say method and exhibited the usual symptoms of dyslexia, and he wanted to know how to cure his disability.

He had read one of my articles on dyslexia and wrote:

It was extremely interesting, logical and above all explained the whole problem. It gave me important clues as to my own disabilities with reading and writing. I do’nt [sic] remember which method of reading I was taught, but I am positive it was the look-say method; this would certainly explain my difficulties in reading and writing as a child; and to this day I still have problems with reading or should I say misreading and especially spelling.

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“My Dyslexia” by Philip Schultz

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It would probably come as a major shock for any middle-aged adult to find out that he has a learning disorder. But what if that man was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and the disorder was dyslexia, which fundamentally affects one’s ability to process language? That is precisely what happened to Philip Schultz, a writer whose self-worth and self-understanding were rocked by the relatively late-in-life discovery.

In his new memoir, “My Dyslexia,” Schultz shares what it was like to grow up as a member of what he calls the “dummy class”

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Reduced Brain Activity Seen in Prereaders With Dyslexia Risk

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Prereading children with a family history of developmental dyslexia (DD) show reduced activity in the bilateral occipitotemporal and left temporoparietal brain regions during phonological processing exercises, according to a study published online Jan. 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nora Maria Raschle, Ph.D., from the Children’s Hospital Boston, and colleagues analyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging scans taken in 36 prereading children during phonological processing exercises to identify functional networks. Eighteen children with a familial risk for DD (average age, 66.5 months) were compared with 18 age- and IQ-matched controls.

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