Who said it?

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Who said it?
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• My memories of school are not some of my
  favorite things. We are not stupid we have a
  handicap, and that handicap can be overcome.

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• I never read in school. I got really bad grades
  Cs and Ds and Fs in some classes In the
  second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. My
  report cards always said that I wasnt living up
  to my potential.

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• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. My
  parents had no idea that I had a learning
  disability.

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• Kids made fun of me because I was dyslexic. Even
  as an actor, it took me a long time to realize
  why the words and letters got jumbled in my mind
  and came out differently.

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• I hated to read. What a normal kid could read
  once and understand, I had to read three or four
  times.

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• The looks, the stares, the giggles
• I wanted to show everyone that I could do better,
  and also that I could read!

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• Dyslexia! That was me! You cant imagine what a
  relief it is for an 18 year old to find out he is
  not mentally retarded!

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• Having dyslexia was frustrating and
  embarrassing. I can tell you a lot of horror
  stories about what you feel like on the inside.

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• I couldnt read. I just scraped by in school. My
  only solution was to read classic comic books
  because I could figure out the story from the
  pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

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• My father told me that his teachers thought he
  was mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever
  in his foolish dreams.

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• My teachers thought I was addled my father
  thought I was stupid. I decided that I was a
  dunce.

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• As a boy of nine, he did not know the letters of
  the alphabet. At school, his teachers thought he
  was dull.

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• He struggled with reading his entire life, and
  had to hire a tutor to get through West Point. He
  was able to memorize entire lectures, and this
  helped him throughout his life.

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• He was slow in school. As an adult, he was fired
  by a newspaper editor for having no good ideas.

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• He flunked out of the 6th grade.

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Your Thoughts?
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Learning Disability
An inability to learn academic skills in a person
with normal intelligence
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• reading originates in and relies upon the brain
  systems for spoken language, that is, the neural
  systems used for processing the sounds of
  language. p. 20
• There is now incontrovertible scientific
  evidence that problems in getting to the sound of
  spoken language are at the very heart of reading
  disabilities a deficit in phonology represents
  the most robust and specific correlate to reading
  disability. p. 20

From The New Science of Reading and Its
Implications for the Classroom, by Sally
Shaywitz, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Yale
University School of Medicine. Cited in Education
Canada, 44, no. 1, Winter 2004.
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• the long held belief that only boys suffer
  from dyslexia reflects sampling bias in
  school-identified samples. When you study them in
  the lab, there are equal numbers of boys and
  girls with dyslexia. - p. 21
• Dyslexia runs in families one quarter to on
  half of children who have a parent with dyslexia
  will also have the disorder, and if one child is
  affected, chances are that half of his or her
  siblings will also be affected p. 21

From The New Science of Reading and Its
Implications for the Classroom, by Sally
Shaywitz, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Yale
University School of Medicine. Cited in Education
Canada, 44, no. 1, Winter 2004.
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Soooooo

• We know what the research says.
• What about the HUMAN side of this?

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