I really enjoyed the Yale web page and when I read the article about Dylan, tears came to my eyes. The article was an excerpt from his middle school promotion speech. He wrote about the support he had from his teachers and from his classmates. He described his dyslexia to the audience how in the fourth grade he decided to let his classmates know he was going for help from a reading specialist. Pretty gutsy for a 4th graded. He owned it, was not ashamed of it. Likewise his class mates began to one up the other. One needed glasses, one had sleep problems. The teacher had helped him with his talk to the class and it gave way to class discussion. There was no date on the article, but they had a post at the end. Dylan was a seventeen and a junior in high school. He thanked his time, teacher and friends at Marin County Day School for the progress he was able to accomplish. The MCDS was not a specialized school for language based learning when Dylan was a student but now has a department of learning specialists supporting students who need academic remediation. On a cross curricular note. Dylan ( at age 17) stated he believe it was the school's core values that created the support he needed to stay confident and accept learning differences.
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