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Subject: Living With Dyslexia

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mark kane

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Date Posted: 03:35:59 07/22/11 Fri

My Life With Dyslexia
When I was 5yrs old I lived in Northbrook IL and went to West Northfield School.(now under a new name and new building) I had a hard time and that was the first school that I was kept behind. Later we moved to Stanford Conn. Where I went to a Montessori school this was a school where the kids can learn at there own speed and not have to worry about the kids being ahead or behind them. I left that school when I was 13yrs.
Then I was over in Europe lived in Belgium for 5yrs and for two of those years I went to a boarding school in England for kids with dyslexia. Then in 1971 I came back to Ill and went to high school @ Oak Park Riverforest. I was in special Ed, each day after school I would go to another school for dyslexic, one of them was for crawling, (There is a right way to crawl.) This teaches your brain to work with your body in the right way. The other school was for your motor skills. First you would start with some exercises while being blindfolded, so you could not see what the other kid next to you was doing. The next thing was the balance beam while still being blindfolded you has to walk on it, sounds easy but it is not. Then we would have to go stand in front of the caulk- board and do some things with your right & left hand. The first class for crawling was 1hr the 2nd class was 2hrs. I did this for three years, and with out it I would not have gotten my HS diploma. I am now 55yrs old and live in Streamwood IL and have a wife and two boys. I was a garbage man for 18yrs and I still have a hard time being dyslexic but I have learn to find different ways to get to what I want it just takes longer.

I have done a lot of research on dyslexia because one of my sons has ADHD. Come to find out that Dyslexia is the Mother of all learning disabilities; ADHD & ADD etc are all under Dyslexia. That is the only way my son can have ADHD, you are born with it. Someone in the family has to have some form of Dyslexia.

Anyway as I was looking around online about this and read about some schools who claim to help kids with this. Not anyone has ever said anything about going back to where it all started, I mean you have to go back to when you were a baby and learn to crawl the right way. It is all about retraining your brain & body to work together.( at age 16 I was learning how to crawl.)

All I have is a HS diploma (no masters or bachelors degree) but I would love to teach the classes that I went to. I really believe you have to go back before you can go forward. I though about getting a grant and starting my own school but being dyslexia it is like hitting a brick wall.(I don�t know where or how to start). But I still may look into it because I can not do a class with 30 + kids. I was thinking two classes am-pm 10 kids per/ class.
As it picked up I would take on some help.

That is about it for now, I just wanted to share some of my life with people who have dyslexia and maybe some parents who are looking to try something else for there kids.

Written by
Mark W Kane
e-mail--- markane502@gmail.com

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Living With Dyslexia	Russell Van Brocklen	08:19:54 07/22/11 Fri

Re: Living With Dyslexia	Jessica Eddings (excited for you)	15:49:24 07/25/11 Mon

Re: Living With Dyslexia	JO 753 (optimistic)	16:59:39 08/01/11 Mon