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I got into this somehow

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Question #1
People with Dyslexia struggle with reading and I can relate because first of all I take my time reading and I’m pretty slow also reading used to be quite challenging  for me around third grade and I had to go to a specialist for a year.

Question #2
They understand and think more in that creative way so does that mean that their right side of the brain is much stronger and why so?

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1. Did you relate to anyone in the documentary? How did you relate to them?

2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

I wonder what actually happens when people with dyslexia look at words, what happens to their brain, and how it thinks what those letters say. in the book that I read the main character has dyslexia, but her brother can’t read either, I was wondering if it would be genetic or just kind of random

3. How are learning differences different from thinking differences?

I think that they are different because learning things is different from thinking about things, if you think about your cat, you are not learning about your cat. Thinking differences can be like your whole brain works differently. But with learning differences, just the learning part of your brain is changed.

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Cris

1. Did you relate to anyone in the documentary? How did you relate to them?

The documentary i saw, i learn that having a disability is actually a good thing. The reason is because having a disability you learn things in a different way than other do. I relate to this because i know people that have dyslexia.

2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

How do they see the words when they are reading, or how they look at the book when they read. Do they read per word or the whole word. I also wonder how is just effects in reading, writing not in math or science.

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By: Edison Steinman

2. I want to learn more about how people are just able to read and write at such a young age and why when you have dyslexia this becomes a lot harder. I think this is amazing how we can understand what are essentially scribbles on a page into thoughts, ideas, and stories we can understand. What part of our brain lets us do this and why do some people not have this ability?

3. A thinking difference is when a person can’t create logical thought while a person with dyslexia has trouble understanding written words. These things are very different because a person with dyslexia would be just like everyone else on first meeting while you might be able to immediately tell if a person has a thinking disability.

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1. How are learning differences different from thinking differences?

Learning is different from thinking so if you have a learning difference does not mean that you have a thinking difference.

2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

Do people have it worse than other people, Can it get worse over time

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1.I related to someone in the documentary because one of my friends from my old school was diagnosed with dyslexia in fourth grade. So sometimes easy tasks would be hard like easy math homework.
2.Why does this happen to people? How would it feel to not be able to read or write? Could do other tasks like math problems easier or would it be harder.

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By Marcella Taboada

One person I relate to in the documentary is the girl who has to make all of the flashcards to study. I also need to make a lot of flashcards to study and keep track of my thoughts. If I don’t make flashcards, my thoughts get all mixed up. I am still wondering if people always had dyslexia. Like if in ancient times, if people had dyslexia, or is it a much more recent disability. If it was a thing in ancient times, say, ancient Egypt or around that time, did people know it existed? Was the struggle greater back then because people didn’t know much about it? One thing I also wonder is how a brain is born with dyslexia. Is it a genetic thing, or is it just something that happens?

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By Zola Saunders

I answered question numbers 1 and 2

I still have some questions about dyslexia. For example, one question I still have for many kids who struggle with reading is, how do people with dyslexia find a way to work around the fact they can’t read, can they find a way to learn? What strategies do they use?
Learning differences are different than thinking differences because a learning difference affects the way someone would learn during school or any time.  A thinking difference affects the way someone would think about something, or represent something in their head.

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Bowden

Dyslexia Response

I thought I connected to one of the boys with dyslexia. He said that after a hard day, he unwound while drawing pictures. I can relate. Drawing makes me feel calm. I like to draw objects around my room. He also said he was a visual thinker. I like to picture directions out in my mind to get a better understanding of what I have to do. For me, it’s easier to visualize things than write them down.

After watching this documentary, I still have a few questions about dyslexia. First of all, I wonder if dyslexia can be passed down from generation to generation. In the video, the dad’s daughter had the same learning differences that he had. But other times this wasn’t the case. Another question I have is how dyslexia affects speech. Does it change the muscles in your mouth or just the signals to the mouth? I also wonder if you can grow out of dyslexia over time. Can people find a way to pass the obstacles?

There are a few differences between learning and thinking differences. With learning differences, it doesn’t as much affect your brain the way you learn. With thinking differences, it changes the way you take in information. Dyslexia is a common learning difference, but it doesn’t mean it's a disability.

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In the documentary that we watched. I learned about dyslexia. And it cant go away it will always be in you. I saw that kids couldn’t read or write. And had to leave there schools. Kids struggled and some teachers just did not get it that they had such a hard time. I still wonder how they overcame it, and does it effect them a lot when they are older.

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2.What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

I still wonder how hard a dislexic person has to concentrate to say things. I can only assume that they have to put an extreme amount of concentration into pronouncing words correctly but it most likely differentiates from person to person.

3.How are learning differences different from thinking differences?

Learning differences are different ways of learning like how a person can be a visual learner while somebody else can be an auditory learner or physical learner. These differences are just different ways peoples brains collect information and remember it. Thinking differences on the other hand are about how people process information so while somebody might be able to think of how to pronounce a word and then say it while other people might be able to understand how the word is pronounced they may not be able to say it correctly.

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Cruz Gattnar

Dyslexia Response

Per.½ ELA

There are things that are still being discovered about learning disabilities. These are some of the questions that I would like to know the answers to: What causes these differences? Are they always genetic? How common are these learning disabilities? What percentage of people that experience learning disabilities are aware that they have dyslexia?

Sometimes people have a hard time distinguishing learning disabilities with thinking disabilities. I think that these two differences are two very distinct things. Learning differences can make it difficult for some people to learn how to read and/or write. People with learning disabilities sometimes have a hard time understanding and learning specific topics, but they can think, and communicate like any other “normal” person would. Thinking differences disable people from thinking the same as most of the population. They may have a hard time communicating with others, or even understanding things that are told to them. Sometimes everyone needs to just accept that everyone is different.

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2. I wonder how the dyslexia tests work and if they are completely accurate. What form is the test, medical(as in a brain scan) or active or based on intelligence? Or anything else? I also wonder if there are lots of famous artists or architects or people who specialize in the arts and design due to their outstandingly creative minds(because of dyslexia). Dyslexia allows you to think creatively, so I can imagine a lot of ideas that are extraordinarily modern or different can come from dyslexic people.

3. Learning differences are different from thinking differences because thinking is a form of creativity. Learning is developing information being taught to you, while thinking is something that is creative and free. People with dyslexia are often much more creative and are out-of-the-box thinkers, so thinking is not at all like learning. Though they are similar,

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Dori Daher - Dyslexia: Relates, Questions, Thoughts

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Dori Daher - Dyslexia: Relates, Questions, Thoughts

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In the documentary about Dyslexia, I couldn’t relate to having dyslexia but I can relate to Skye. I can relate to Skye because Skye didn’t like school, couldn’t read, and felt lost and behind. This is personally how I felt about math and still kind of do. In the 4th grade I couldn’t long divide or do other math skills when everyone was succeeding at it and my teacher didn’t help me. I honestly still can’t long divide well but I’m trying my best, and I do great in all other subjects. I have questions about dyslexia. First, how are people with dyslexia’s brain built? What do words look like to them? How can dyslexia be treated? What are the mental side effects of dyslexia? I hope everyone with dyslexia can overcome it.

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Question #1
I relate to Temple because she is a very visual learner and I have been told and believe that I am a visual learner as well. I can envision things that are attached to meaning just like Temple.

Question #2

They understand and think more in that creative way so does that mean that their right side of the brain is much stronger and why so?

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A question I have about dyslexia is if it affects how you view numbers. Would you instead of seeing the letter one, just see a line? Another question I have is if you had dyslexia, would it affect your math skills? Especially in certain subjects, like geometry. Also, are you illiterate if you have dyslexia, or do you learn how to read, but it is more difficult and takes longer. Also, how much does dyslexia affect your daily life? And would it affect your vision if you were looking at stop signs?

Learning differences affect how you learn, not how you think. Many incredibly smarter people may have dyslexia, and while it does affect how they learn, it does not make them any less smart than others.

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My thoughts on dyslexia Catherine cashen 

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1. Did you relate to anyone in the documentary? How did you relate to them?

Well in a way, when Skye said she tried hiding not knowing how to read I could relate because I tried to cover up being good at math since I had trouble with it in elementary school, but otherwise I couldn’t relate but more I felt empathetic for them.

2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

I wonder even if there is a grown adult when they're learning they still have to go back to basics like ABCs and simple words.

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2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?

A question I still have about dyslexia is how does it affect other subjects like math or science, would you be “smarter” in those subjects?

3. How are learning differences different from thinking differences?

Learning differences are more in your brain that you physically can’t learn subjects like how to read or write as well as other people. A thinking difference is to do with certain subjects and not being good at them because you didn’t pay attention while you were supposed to learn them such as a certain thing in math or geography.

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In the documentary, I learned what it was like to have dyslexia, and how it can be good, or how can it change you in a bad way. It took some people a while to discover that they had dyslexia, and it was really hard for them at the beginning of school, with things like writing and reading. Some questions that I have still about dyslexia, like, when some kids were diagnosed with dyslexia, how was the change from when you walked into school, or even moved schools? Did you feel sad, happy that you finally knew what was causing you to get behind? Also, how long did it take for you to be able to read like at a decent pace and could read aloud? I think learning differences are different from thinking differences, because usually, thinking problems you are able to read write, because you might have more time and help, and its more saying things aloud, and learning differences is the trouble of learning basic things, such as reading or writing. In the mind of a dyslexic kid, when reading, the letters and words are scrambled, and look like gibberish, and the same with writing, since you would need to know the alphabet and simple words, which are hard for dyslexic kids to understand, and it takes a while. Before this, I had no idea that dyslexia was so hard for kids to overcome, and I feel so much better, now knowing what its like for kids like you and me are going through early in their lives, and I have so much respect and sympathy for all of those kids that fight and try everyday, even with dyslexia.

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Charlie     Feegel                                                                                  1. Did you relate to anyone in the documentary? How did you relate to them?                                                 2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?I wonder what causes dyslexia also i wonder who discovered dyslexia.                                                  3. How are learning differences different from thinking differences? I think that they are different because teh learning diffreances are different from the thinking differences if you think about something you aren’t learning about that your actually just thinking about it instead but if your reading a book then you are learning about it while thinking about it. 

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Charlie     Feegel                                                                                  1. Did you relate to anyone in the documentary? How did you relate to them?                                                 2. What questions do you still have about the reading disability, dyslexia?I wonder what causes dyslexia also i wonder who discovered dyslexia.                                                  3. How are learning differences different from thinking differences? I think that they are different because teh learning diffreances are different from the thinking differences if you think about something you aren’t learning about that your actually just thinking about it instead but if your reading a book then you are learning about it while thinking about it. 

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I correlated to some of the background characters, because a couple of years ago, a person I met had dyslexia and his teacher did not think of him as someone special. He just wasn’t smart she thought, but his parents realized and he said now he goes to a special school. Since I have very little contact with him, I hope he’s doing good. I still wonder what the words in a book look like to them. Does it look scrambled, mixed, or just gibberish? Thinking differences are things that make it hard to do certain things and tasks. This could be reading, writing, or anything school/work related. To read something like a paragraph can take extra time and waste lots of energy.

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My thoughts on dyslexia- By Catherine Philp

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My thoughts on dyslexia- By Catherine Philp

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I related to some of the background characters, because last year one of my friends had dyslexia and our teachers did not notice and thought that she just wasn’t smart, but her parents realized and now she goes to a special school and she really likes it. Thinking differences are things that make it hard for you to focus when someone is talking at any time really but learning difference make it hard for you to focus on something you are reading or writing. I still wonder what the words in a book look like to them.

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I get really stressed at times when I have a lot of homework to do, but I could never relate to not being able to read as easily as I do. If I had dyslexia, I would never be able to get as good grades as I have, because I already have such a big workload. Today, I have around 2.5 hours of homework to do that I would have to read for as well as a 3 hour baseball game.

Is there a spectrum of dyslexia? Like are there people who have more difficulty reading than other dislexic people? When trying to read do dyslexic people have meltdowns, when they’re trying really hard to read but just can’t?