Tag: dyslexia

Educators, doctors and other experts on the subject of dyslexia hosted workshops on dyslexia, literacy, and teaching methods as part of the second annual Neurodiversity Symposium Sunday in the Campus Center Ballroom and various classrooms.  Niki Elliott, clinical faculty member of special education and co-director of the Center For Neurodiversity, Learning, and Wellness, began the event by saying that addressing the needs of children with dyslexia in education is a social justice issue. “Our criminal justice system predicts the prison beds they’ll need in the next generation by the number of children in a given community who are not reading at grade level by fourth grade,” Elliott said. “60 percent of juveniles in incarceration have dyslexia.”

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It was a day of discovery. So sad that it took so long. From pre-school through high school, there were no answers, just years and years of feeling like a failure. Fortunately, the invisible shutters of confusion opened, and the source revealed its name to be dyslexia.