Barriers for Dyslexics (1993)
In honor of Dyslexia Awareness Month, here is a 1993 article, Dyslexics Overcome Barriers, that I wrote for my high school newspaper.
I interviewed some of the students at school who had dyslexia as well as some of the teachers who were trained in Alphabetic Phonics (an Orton Gillingham based program) and worked with the dyslexic students.
Dyslexics can provide so much insight into their challenges as well as ways to support them, but so often it seems they aren’t asked for their insight. I’ll go over this more in a future blog, but for now, just consider what these students said in 1993.
Disclaimer. This article is from 1993. The knowledge base about dyslexia has expanded much since that time. This post is only to provide historical insight not diagnose or treat.