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Throughout the disability/delays project, I learned many things about the topic of dyslexia in children.  The many myths, difficulties, and stories of the individuals with dyslexia have been really inspiring.  One thing that I found most interesting was how the words can really move and change, in the mind of a child with dyslexia.  Knowing how the letters can switch out and some words can even disappear from the page and come back into focus was stressful even in the simulation video.  Another topic that caught my eye was the TED Talk by Piper Otterbein on her life having dyslexia.  She explained how she always struggled since she was really young with comprehending stuff like the "dollar song".  Piper also showed that she was bullied for spelling onion as "union" as her coworkers always mocked her about it.

An important fact that I learned was how the brain is used by dyslexic's compared to people without dyslexia.  According to a video called "What is Dyslexia?" by Kelli Sandman-Hurley, the left hemisphere of the child's brain is used less than the right hemisphere.  The left side of the brain controls all the reading, writing, and spelling while the right side contains all the spatial and nonverbal information.  They explain in the video that a child with dyslexia is more accustomed to using their right side of the brain, therefore, making it harder to move words and letters through the left side.

Overall this was a really intriguing project to create.  Many of my friends are dyslexic but normally don't explain how it affects their school experience.  So learning how children and adults work with dyslexia was important and compelling topic to research.  Now that I have read and watched videos about my topic I feel at ease that I can talk with and help out friends and family that may need a bit of a push to catch up.

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Susan Barton the founder of Bright Solutions for Dyslexia answers questions from parents and teachers from around the world to get an insight of the condition of dyslexia.  The most common myth is that "hes so smart, it just an age delay, nothing to worry about." There are many effective researched based interventions that will bring the child reading, writing skills up to and beyond grade level.

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Embracing Dyslexia: The Interviews - Susan Barton

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Children with dyslexia are more prone to use the front and right side of their brain instead of the left side, therefore making it difficult to comprehend reading and writing materials.

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The average cost of raising a child is $245,000, but in the 15 - 20% that a child has dyslexia raises to $400,000.  Productiveness and helpfullness to a dyslexic child of that $400,000 is mainly made up of
- $5,000 evaluation
- $10,400 for a year of OT
- $5,000 evaluation
- $279,500 tuition
- $93,600 tutors
- $20,000 for more evaluations

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Dyslexia and Privilege | Samantha Coppola | TEDxTheMastersSchool

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Advice to parents of children with dyslexia really can help the efficiency and work by the child.  Once you (the parent) know how dyslexia effects the brain, the learning process, and how your child works it can be easier to help.  Some children find spelling harder than others or reading harder than others at home or at school.  Helping your child study with Post-it notes and colored pens help learning / revising because it helps trigger memorization for exams. Struggling with maths is another difficult experience for a parent and their child. Jo's mum hired a maths tutor that coincidentally knew how to work with kids with dyslexia. Jo shared that her experience with her new math tutor that she was taught to use fractions by cutting a pizza or cake in their head or on paper.

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ALL MY ADVICE IS INFORMAL GUIDANCE X Hey hey!! Heres a little video with my mum about what advice we would give to parents who have dyslexic children... hope its useful!

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This video was designed to show what happens when a child with dyslexia is trying to read.  This is a good video to watch if you are one of the friends or family asking what they mean by "the words are shaking".  The narrator explains the many different types of ways the words can move when a dyslexic reads:
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-words shattering on the page
-words dissapearing from page
-wavy text
-shaking words
-swirling
-foggy/blurry words

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Visual Dyslexia Explained - how text appears with Scotopic Sensitivity (dyslexia) (full version)

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Dyslexia is caused by a genetic link with a deletion of the DCDC2 gene. Another study found a link between a mutation found in the ROBO1 gene. While dyslexia is considered as a learning disability it should be known as a neurological condition. In a study of 75 children and 104 adults, scientists found that dyslexic individuals have weaker connections to parts of the brain like visual centers and the visual word area. This is definitely a visual condition which explains why trying to read is more difficult than speaking.

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This informational video gives the watcher an inside look on how dyslexia affects child and the brain. It may not be the exact case but many people misunderstand dyslexia as switching similar looking letters around or flipping words with the same letter.  But actually dyslexic's actually see things the same way as everyone around them. Thy don'y have any problem with seeing the words but manipulating it so they can understand. Children with dyslexia normally have to break down a single word into parts just to comprehend it.  All this time spent breaking each individual word down into parts makes the struggle to catch up with students without the condition.   Another common experience  is spelling words phonetically or how they sound to the listener. Another good thing to learn about dyslexia is how the brain is actually affected. The left side is reading and writing while the right is more spacious activity. The brain of children with dyslexia use the right side in the fright hemisphere making it harder for the words when reading to travel through to the left hemisphere.

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What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

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Things Not to Say to Someone With Dyslexia...

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Things Not to Say to Someone With Dyslexia...

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While children are struggling with this condition, people without dyslexia don't see things like people with dyslexia do. This can make it hard to not get frustrated or impatient with friends or family. This video, from BBC 3, helps us understand people / children living with dyslexia better. It also shows how they really feel when family and even strangers say things they may not think is harmless. These eight young adults collaborated in a 5 minutes video on dyslexia just to help solve the everyday irrational questions that they hear from people almost on a daily basis.

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Things Not To Say To Someone With Dyslexia

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Teaching children with dyslexia can be a struggle in different. For example, in this video Jo explains how it is somewhat difficult to keep up with peers. She also explained that some of her teachers did understand because they had dyslexia as well. Having her teachers understand promoted a more confident environment for her. Using her story in the real world is not as hard as it may seem. Starting an understanding relationship with your teacher about having a difficult time with the condition is bigger step towards reaching education goals than keeping it to yourself and not working with  someone to reach your full potential.

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ALL MY ADVICE IS INFORMAL GUIDANCE X Are Dyslexics at a Disadvantage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsFRnuNAbpU The Importance of Extra Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2XhLy1aRgo Why you should get Assessed for Dyslexia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjgYozVAds4 Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoCrawford310 Blog: https://imdislexsic.wordpress.com

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In this video, Travis Harker, an experienced parent and doctor shares his experience having a child with Dyslexia and learning to help her grow mentally. When his daughter was struggling he had a difficult time too trying to find out the best way to assist in learning and social situations. Things that the father used from studying when he was in school didn't work for his daughter and felt baffled. When he learned that Paloma had dyslexia he did everything he could to learn about the struggle and how he could help. After this happened his daughter felt much more confident that her parents understood, "They realized she's not just having trouble learning and she's not just falling behind. There's a reason behind it". Trying to create an environment where the child is nurtured and stimulated helps create the comfort and stability to excel.

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Travis Harker: Family Doctor and Parent of a Child With Dyslexia

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Travis Harker is a successful family doctor. But until recently, he never thought to ask too many questions about a child's struggles in school. That was until his daughter, Paloma, started struggling with reading.

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The story of Piper is an honest struggled experience.  Remembering how having dyslexia effected her from elementary to middle school. She was taken out of normal classes to be taught differently. Being repeatedly iq tested because having her results being "superior excellence" in many sections didn't make since to the adults that thought she couldn't learn in the same way.

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Overcoming Dyslexia, Finding Passion: Piper Otterbein at TEDxYouth@CEHS

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Piper Otterbein is a senior at Cape Elizabeth High School. Piper was born in New York, but she has lived in Cape Elizabeth for the past eleven years. When Piper was in first grade, she was diagnosed with a learning disability.