Dear Felicia:
Thank you for your article on Dyslexia and the Wisconsin Institute for Learning Disabilities/Dyslexia. Great story.
Although in contrast to your article today, I consider dyslexia a Gift, today with Technology the hurdle of reading does not exist nor does it have to for those who struggle with the written word.
View "My travels with the Gift of Dyslexia" : www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx
Four programs which have empowered me and are available to help others are www.readplease.com, www.rfbd.org, www.bookshare.org and Balabolka.
Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities, thanks to an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP).
Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book. Bookshare therefore is excellent for the student and adult population. Newspapers from all over the country are available and Bookshare provide two text to speech software programs, Victor Soft reader and a Beta for Bookshare made by Read:OutLoud.
With Read:OutLoud if the reader comes to a person, place or thing they don't understand then all the reader has to do with a couple of clicks and connection to the internet click the dictionary and voila they have the meaning of the word, or picture of the person or a map of where the place is located.
In today's iPad world Read:OutLoud is volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks to be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.
Green education, what a new idea, except it isn't, it has been brought to the system by the Learning Disabled, through BookShare.org.
Check out how the software works, by visiting my blog at: www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
In summary those who have Dyslexia have a gift not a disability.
Sincerely Davis Graham
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
US News encourging LD students, my comment
Dear Kim:
Thank you for your article encouraging those students who have a LD to attend college. One if not the best resource which was not mentioned was www.Bookshare.org. What a gift this is for those who have the gift of Dyslexia or other qualifying disabilities.
Bookshare.org has the combination of digital textbooks and software which has the potential to change the landscape of our education system. For those who do qualify it has already changed the landscape by taking a textbook and turning the book and software combination into a vitrual book. If you come to a person, place or thing you don't know then you just highlight the word and with the internet you are able to data mine the topic and incorporate the meaning into your book.
Check out "Dyslexia and technology" on Youtube for a demostration.
Our education system is good let's make it great by incorporating the technology which is available to learning disabled students and make it available to all who seek to learn.
Thank you for your article encouraging those students who have a LD to attend college. One if not the best resource which was not mentioned was www.Bookshare.org. What a gift this is for those who have the gift of Dyslexia or other qualifying disabilities.
Bookshare.org has the combination of digital textbooks and software which has the potential to change the landscape of our education system. For those who do qualify it has already changed the landscape by taking a textbook and turning the book and software combination into a vitrual book. If you come to a person, place or thing you don't know then you just highlight the word and with the internet you are able to data mine the topic and incorporate the meaning into your book.
Check out "Dyslexia and technology" on Youtube for a demostration.
Our education system is good let's make it great by incorporating the technology which is available to learning disabled students and make it available to all who seek to learn.
Mike Cohen with Google
Dear Mike:
I have the gift of dyslexia and I am and have been using text to speech for 9 years now. Check out my Youtube videos at my blog mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com we as a nation are on the edge a good educational system (?) to a great one with efforts like yours to incorporate text to speech and other technology in to the mainstream. Think of Google coming out with an "iPad" technology for textbooks. Where a student receives their books from 9th thru college in a digital format with data mining capability. (Dyslexia and technology, Youtube). The text books would be uploaded and updated 1/4 or every semester. Bookshare.org has done some amazing things and is offering these tools to the LD population already.
I have the gift of dyslexia and I am and have been using text to speech for 9 years now. Check out my Youtube videos at my blog mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com we as a nation are on the edge a good educational system (?) to a great one with efforts like yours to incorporate text to speech and other technology in to the mainstream. Think of Google coming out with an "iPad" technology for textbooks. Where a student receives their books from 9th thru college in a digital format with data mining capability. (Dyslexia and technology, Youtube). The text books would be uploaded and updated 1/4 or every semester. Bookshare.org has done some amazing things and is offering these tools to the LD population already.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Richard Branson launches Magizine for iPad only
Virgin Digital Publishing launched Project, a new digital lifestyle magazine optimized exclusively for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad platform.
My question to him on his "Ask Richard" blog is:
With your new magazine for iPad, why not incorporate the text to speech technology and unlimited data mining like Bookshare.ord does with "Read:OutLoud” . Google Youtube video “Manatee Read:Outloud youtube “.
My question to him on his "Ask Richard" blog is:
With your new magazine for iPad, why not incorporate the text to speech technology and unlimited data mining like Bookshare.ord does with "Read:OutLoud” . Google Youtube video “Manatee Read:Outloud youtube “.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Tools of the 21st Century, post to http://lincs.ed.gov
Dear Advocates:
Our report card in Schools could be graded by the size of the juvenile detention population.
Take the software programs which were mentioned in the discussion string titled "tools in the 21st Century" which states:
We live today with text to speech software most of which is free, note taking tools like mind spring and Xmind, and then there are great programs such as Bookshare.org which is one gateway to learning.
Complex thinking is my gift, I think in pictures, we are all built differently, we all can learn differently, although our educational system does not teach efficiency.
Today, text to speech is best to be in all schools and libraries. Note taking tools available and accepted in all class rooms, virtual textbooks which Bookshare.org creates with Read:OutLoud would make deeper learning thru data mining an ease. (At Youtube, type "2010 Manatee County School Board demo" and view "Bradenton.com and Readplease)
We live in a world which is accelerating technologically but tools are not being share or utilized to advance education as quickly as it should.
At my bio ( www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx ) you can hear what it is like to struggle, yet succeed and at my blog ( www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com ) which I contribute to there are a few of the many tools which are available to enable those who struggle to find their feet with the "Gift of Dyslexia".
Sincerely,
Davis W. Graham
Our report card in Schools could be graded by the size of the juvenile detention population.
Take the software programs which were mentioned in the discussion string titled "tools in the 21st Century" which states:
We live today with text to speech software most of which is free, note taking tools like mind spring and Xmind, and then there are great programs such as Bookshare.org which is one gateway to learning.
Complex thinking is my gift, I think in pictures, we are all built differently, we all can learn differently, although our educational system does not teach efficiency.
Today, text to speech is best to be in all schools and libraries. Note taking tools available and accepted in all class rooms, virtual textbooks which Bookshare.org creates with Read:OutLoud would make deeper learning thru data mining an ease. (At Youtube, type "2010 Manatee County School Board demo" and view "Bradenton.com and Readplease)
We live in a world which is accelerating technologically but tools are not being share or utilized to advance education as quickly as it should.
At my bio ( www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx ) you can hear what it is like to struggle, yet succeed and at my blog ( www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com ) which I contribute to there are a few of the many tools which are available to enable those who struggle to find their feet with the "Gift of Dyslexia".
Sincerely,
Davis W. Graham
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Roberts Academy opens in Lakeland, Florida (see link)
Dear Cary:
Thank you for your article on Dyslexia and the Roberts Academy. Great story. Dyslexia today with Technology the hurdle of reading does not have to exist.
View "My travels with the Gift of Dyslexia" : www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx
Have any of us ever thought of bringing the technologies which we use on a day to day basis and bringing it to the class room.
Three programs which have enabled me and are available to help others are www.readplease.com, www.rfbd.org and www.bookshare.org . Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.
Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book. Bookshare therefore is excellent for the student and adult population. Newspapers from all over the country are available and Bookshare provide two text to speech software programs, Victor Soft reader and a Beta for Bookshare made by Read:OutLoud.
In today's iPad world Read:OutLoud is volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks to be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.
Check out how the software works, by visiting Youtube videos and typing in the search window at the Youtube site: "Dyslexia and technology" and "Dyslexia and text to speech" , "2010 Manatee County School Board demo" or visit www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Green education, what a new idea, except it isn’t, it has been brought to the system by the Learning Disabled, through BookShare.org.
Sincerely,
Thank you for your article on Dyslexia and the Roberts Academy. Great story. Dyslexia today with Technology the hurdle of reading does not have to exist.
View "My travels with the Gift of Dyslexia" : www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx
Have any of us ever thought of bringing the technologies which we use on a day to day basis and bringing it to the class room.
Three programs which have enabled me and are available to help others are www.readplease.com, www.rfbd.org and www.bookshare.org . Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.
Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book. Bookshare therefore is excellent for the student and adult population. Newspapers from all over the country are available and Bookshare provide two text to speech software programs, Victor Soft reader and a Beta for Bookshare made by Read:OutLoud.
In today's iPad world Read:OutLoud is volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks to be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.
Check out how the software works, by visiting Youtube videos and typing in the search window at the Youtube site: "Dyslexia and technology" and "Dyslexia and text to speech" , "2010 Manatee County School Board demo" or visit www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Green education, what a new idea, except it isn’t, it has been brought to the system by the Learning Disabled, through BookShare.org.
Sincerely,
Thursday, April 15, 2010
U.S. News and World Report, comment
Dear U.S. Todyay and World Report readers:
Great success story. Dyslexia today, does not have to be "too much of a handicap". With Technology the hurdle of reading does not have to exist.
Three programs which have enabled me and are available to help others are www.readplease.com, www.rfbd.org and www.bookshare.org . Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.
Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book. Bookshare therefore is excellent for the student and adult population. Newspapers from all over the country are available and Bookshare provide two text to speech software programs, Victor Soft reader and a Beta for Bookshare made by Read:OutLoud.
In today's iPad world Read:OutLoud is volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.
Check out how the software works, by visiting Youtube videos and typing in the search window at the Youtube site: “Dyslexia and technology” and “Dyslexia and text to speech” , “2010 Manatee County School Board demo” or visit www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Great success story. Dyslexia today, does not have to be "too much of a handicap". With Technology the hurdle of reading does not have to exist.
Three programs which have enabled me and are available to help others are www.readplease.com, www.rfbd.org and www.bookshare.org . Bookshare® is free for all U.S. students with qualifying disabilities.
Student memberships are currently funded by an award from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book. Bookshare therefore is excellent for the student and adult population. Newspapers from all over the country are available and Bookshare provide two text to speech software programs, Victor Soft reader and a Beta for Bookshare made by Read:OutLoud.
In today's iPad world Read:OutLoud is volumes ahead as a tool for the student. The next step in education is for all textbooks be on an iPad foundation with the ability to update the textbooks or access references or contributing resources to the textbook.
Check out how the software works, by visiting Youtube videos and typing in the search window at the Youtube site: “Dyslexia and technology” and “Dyslexia and text to speech” , “2010 Manatee County School Board demo” or visit www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Concocting a Cure for Kids With Issues, New York Times. A reponse.
Dear Judith Warner and Editor:
It may be a diagnosis to our Education system. We are archaic and using somewhat close to snake oils to diagnose and explain a "Gift."
Dyslexia when I was growing up was a disability because there was a lack of tools. Although today it is a "Gift" to me and all who I come in contact with at work, home, church and life.
What if tools (Readplease.com, Read:OutLoud and Victor Reader Soft) which enable me to read 300 to 480 words per minute with 90%+ comprehension where available to all? What if when a student comes to a person, place, word or thing which they do not know; are now only one click away from a picture of the person or one click away from the definition or description? This technology is available and would boost the phrase "no child left behind" by at least 10 to 20% completion rate.
Confidence can change a life and a nation. At my Blog (www.mygiftofdyslexia.Blogspot.com) I have placed 4 Youtube videos which I have made to show this technology at work. The Youtube video titled “Dyslexia and Technology" demonstrates how I read most of my books. This digital textbook technology should be in all schools, by doing so it would put students who are willing to learn on the edge of their reading chair. For those who have no motivation then they would fail because of the lack of effort.
“I can’t”, “I don't know how”, “they won’t teach me” would be turned off as excuse for most but not all. My life has been changed and my reading has put me at the edge of my reading chair for the first time in my life.
New York Times best sellers are a download away; recently I finished "The Middle Place" and “Lift”. When I introduced myself to Kelly Corrigan at a recent Library Association luncheon I could proudly say to her "I read your book".
Sincerely,
Davis
It may be a diagnosis to our Education system. We are archaic and using somewhat close to snake oils to diagnose and explain a "Gift."
Dyslexia when I was growing up was a disability because there was a lack of tools. Although today it is a "Gift" to me and all who I come in contact with at work, home, church and life.
What if tools (Readplease.com, Read:OutLoud and Victor Reader Soft) which enable me to read 300 to 480 words per minute with 90%+ comprehension where available to all? What if when a student comes to a person, place, word or thing which they do not know; are now only one click away from a picture of the person or one click away from the definition or description? This technology is available and would boost the phrase "no child left behind" by at least 10 to 20% completion rate.
Confidence can change a life and a nation. At my Blog (www.mygiftofdyslexia.Blogspot.com) I have placed 4 Youtube videos which I have made to show this technology at work. The Youtube video titled “Dyslexia and Technology" demonstrates how I read most of my books. This digital textbook technology should be in all schools, by doing so it would put students who are willing to learn on the edge of their reading chair. For those who have no motivation then they would fail because of the lack of effort.
“I can’t”, “I don't know how”, “they won’t teach me” would be turned off as excuse for most but not all. My life has been changed and my reading has put me at the edge of my reading chair for the first time in my life.
New York Times best sellers are a download away; recently I finished "The Middle Place" and “Lift”. When I introduced myself to Kelly Corrigan at a recent Library Association luncheon I could proudly say to her "I read your book".
Sincerely,
Davis
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Dyslexic Students in Kansas Start to Get More Help
Dear Ms. Phillips:
Today I read your article and viewed the video which was done on your mission work for those with the Gift of Dyslexia.
Link:
http://www.kwch.com/Global/story.asp?S=12121041
Bookshare.org and ReadPlease have changed my life, with each of the programs I excel in enriching my life, family, marriage and my place of work. There is nothing in the written word which stands in the way except for my own effort to read something which is placed in my hands.
Recently, the Bradenton Herald at Bradenton.com has provided a link to download ReadPlease (Free software) as a way to read their articles. Bookshare.org has already done so much to make textbooks available to those with qualifying disabilities, it has put me a non-student member, for the first time on the edge of my reading chair. It is my goal as it is yours to not stop telling the world what a great learning environment teaching dyslexics creates for all who want to learn.
An example is the text-to-speech software Read:OutLoud provides to read their digitized books, if I come to a person place or thing which I don't know, all I have to do is highlight it with the cursor and click the dictionary icon and discover who, where or what the once unknown word was.. Imagine this in the hands of a student today whether they are Gifted with Dyslexia or not. What a powerful tool, it is when it is in the hands or mind of an excited student.
Keep up the great mission, and check out my blog with Youtube demos of the above mentioned, on the World wide web at mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Sincerely,
Davis W. Graham
Today I read your article and viewed the video which was done on your mission work for those with the Gift of Dyslexia.
Link:
http://www.kwch.com/Global/story.asp?S=12121041
Bookshare.org and ReadPlease have changed my life, with each of the programs I excel in enriching my life, family, marriage and my place of work. There is nothing in the written word which stands in the way except for my own effort to read something which is placed in my hands.
Recently, the Bradenton Herald at Bradenton.com has provided a link to download ReadPlease (Free software) as a way to read their articles. Bookshare.org has already done so much to make textbooks available to those with qualifying disabilities, it has put me a non-student member, for the first time on the edge of my reading chair. It is my goal as it is yours to not stop telling the world what a great learning environment teaching dyslexics creates for all who want to learn.
An example is the text-to-speech software Read:OutLoud provides to read their digitized books, if I come to a person place or thing which I don't know, all I have to do is highlight it with the cursor and click the dictionary icon and discover who, where or what the once unknown word was.. Imagine this in the hands of a student today whether they are Gifted with Dyslexia or not. What a powerful tool, it is when it is in the hands or mind of an excited student.
Keep up the great mission, and check out my blog with Youtube demos of the above mentioned, on the World wide web at mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Sincerely,
Davis W. Graham
Monday, March 8, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Medical Student’s Appeal Highlights Challenges of Dyslexia
My Bio: www.manateediagnostic.com/davisgraham.aspx tells the story of my life with the Gift of Dyslexia.
There are so many changes in technology which has broken the learning barriers which kept me from being measured with knowledge which is gained by reading.
Text to speech and speech recognition have for me almost leveled the written knowledge world to where I am excelling.
If I were a student today, Bookshare.org and Readplease.com would be as they are in my day to day life my enablers to the written word.
Dyslexia is a Gift, which is barely ever mentioned. The ability to think or as I call it seeing in multi-dimensions is a Gift which creates solutions. Most dyslectics see the end or anticipate the end before the means are even considered.
View the greats, Einstein, Edison, Charles Schwab and others and then you can see it is a Gift, not a disability.
The archaic learning processes we have in place today are restricted by people and traditions, they are not thinking ahead. Take for instance Bookshare.org tools. Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book.
Check out my Youtube at www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Why is America not there yet, we are as dyslectics if the schools let us.. The by-product would be the Education System in America would be brought into to the 21st Century and there would be no barriers to learning..
There are so many changes in technology which has broken the learning barriers which kept me from being measured with knowledge which is gained by reading.
Text to speech and speech recognition have for me almost leveled the written knowledge world to where I am excelling.
If I were a student today, Bookshare.org and Readplease.com would be as they are in my day to day life my enablers to the written word.
Dyslexia is a Gift, which is barely ever mentioned. The ability to think or as I call it seeing in multi-dimensions is a Gift which creates solutions. Most dyslectics see the end or anticipate the end before the means are even considered.
View the greats, Einstein, Edison, Charles Schwab and others and then you can see it is a Gift, not a disability.
The archaic learning processes we have in place today are restricted by people and traditions, they are not thinking ahead. Take for instance Bookshare.org tools. Read:OutLoud and Bookshare.org turn any book or text book into a virtual book.
Check out my Youtube at www.mygiftofdyslexia.blogspot.com
Why is America not there yet, we are as dyslectics if the schools let us.. The by-product would be the Education System in America would be brought into to the 21st Century and there would be no barriers to learning..
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