Wow! A new model for Learning Disabled students with reading difficulties.On Sunday, December 13, 2009, National Public Radio Reporter Joe Palca attended the Nobel Prize ceremony with his friend, Carol W. Greider, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. During the report, Carol was asked about how she chose her graduate school. She said, "Actually I applied to a number of different graduate schools, but as I've said various places, I was dyslexic, so I didn't do very well on standardized tests."
Congratulations, Dr. Greider! And I hope you will let us, as special education teachers, hold you up as a model for how hard work and the right strategies can help our dyslexic students achieve and go beyond a bachelor's degree!
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Dear It is really sad to note that still people who had been facing the problem of dyslexia are left upon the sympathy rather getting proper treatment for the same if not the great fact that a nobel prize winner was a patient of dyslexia would not have surprised million of us.
Let us find the patients and also try to curb the problem rather covering it up.
I have to admit I thought about deleting Neeru’s response: even though I work with special education students, I have pretty high standards for things that go out under my name (I’m struggling to replace or fix my predecessor’s content.) But Neeru reflects the number of educators from developing economies who look to me for help: I get “out of office” messages in Cyrillic, Polish, Korean, and in struggling English.
So, Neeru: dyslexia is not a disease and people who struggle with print are not patients. Here in the United States we have been working with children with dyslexia successfully for years. They struggle, but we help them learn strategies that help them succeed. Still, they seldom succeed as colossally as Dr. Greider. Still, other examples of successful adults who overcame dyslexia have included Nelson Rockefeller, Whoopie Goldberg, and Thomas Edison. I hope you’ll be back, Neeru, to find more suggestions to help you where ever you are, deal with your students who struggle with print.