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Refuse to be Silenced


I am the parent of a special education child with dyslexia that will not be silenced.
We must have the passion and commitment to renew our faith in the ability to change the institutions we learn in.

Schools should expect that parents will hold them accountable when a child reaches 
10th grade with a 3rd grade reading level as my child did. 

The very harsh realities of the everyday experience of living with dyslexia can often collide dramatically with the perceptions of those teachers, administrators, acquaintances, and self-appointed opinion makers who question the existence of the disorder that holds so many captive. Some still claim that dyslexia doesn’t even exist.

Dyslexia is a complex problem that has its roots in the very basic brain systems that allow a person to understand the express language. With new research and understanding a dyslexic child can be free to develop his or her talents and to succeed because dyslexia can be overcome. The time is now for schools to start helping the dyslexic student succeed in the class room. 

As Sally Shaywitz states in her book, Overcoming Dyslexia, “to the extent that we allow children to fall seriously behind at any point during early elementary school, we are moving to “remedial” rather than a “preventive” model of intervention. Once children fall behind in the growth of critical word reading skills, it may require very intensive interventions to bring them back up to adequate levels of reading accuracy, and reading fluency may be even more difficult to restore because of the large amount of reading practice that is lost by children each month and year that they remain poor readers.” 

We must not give up on the one in five children with dyslexia. “There is a special talent locked in the mind of the dyslexia, the trick is to unlock it.”

I will fight this oppression in our public schools with passion, commitment and courage for the next dyslexia child that is sitting in kindergarten wanting to learn how to read and write. It’s time to start dealing with dyslexia in our pubic schools remembering that, a mind is terrible thing to waste. 

I refuse to be silenced because I’m dyslexic myself and I personally faced the brutal oppression in the public school I attended. With perseverance I will continue the fight for change in our schools. The feeling of hope must be sustained for the next generation o