AchieveAbility. Learning Outside the Lines, an interview. Are you on a book tour now?
I am but describing it as a book tour would be ambitious. It is more of a grassroots thing, a lot parents and teachers bringing me to their schools and communities to speak. I was in 5 cities in the last two weeks and tomorrow I leave again. Recently I was in communities in Orlando, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Los Angeles. Are these grade schools which are bringing you in? It varies. What were you doing this time last year? This time last year I was a student, I was finishing the book which was a frightening thing to think about. So, what did you graduate in? I graduated with an AB from Brown in English Literature. So, you are a dyslexic with an English literature degree? The catch phrase is this. So, how did you do that? How did I do that?
Reading What did you say your reading level is? 12th percentile which is really just an indication of reading rate which is mostly speed. A search for a creative pedagogy. 'My strengths come from the same place as my weaknesses...' ...and that's why universities should do more to understand, accommodate and value dyslexic graduate students, argues Rebecca Loncraine I am dyslexic.
I am also a writer with a PhD in English literature. Contrary to popular perception, these things are not incompatible. People are often surprised to hear this. Most assume that all dyslexics are aspiring architects, artists or entrepreneurs, not writers having to deal with the messy business of words as the tools of their trade. When I completed my doctorate in English literature at Oxford University in 2002, I was the only dyslexic person to have achieved this as far as I knew. Having completed my doctoral research, I decided to find out more about dyslexia in the graduate community, and I discovered that there are many dyslexic students undertaking graduate work in universities across the UK, at both masters and doctoral levels. Conventional academic research can look to the dyslexic eye like old black-and-white movies. Author. Public Speaker. Different. Biblography. Bibliography from ‘Dyslexia and Depression: The Hidden Sorrow (2010) Abela, J.R.Z. (2001).
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