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
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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..
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Letter to Post and Courier .com, on a story of a student with dyslexia
Dear Ms. Wenger:
Bookshare.org and RFBD.org have great tools for the dyslexics. Main streaming is a good and economical solution to those with dyslexia and the proper tools.
Text to speech combined with digital text books and the web provide an excellent learning tool. Bookshare.org has provided such a combination, whereas a student is reading their textbook with Read:OutLoud and he or she comes to a person they do not know or a word they need defined, all they do is highlight the word and click the dictionary or go to the web and look them up.
Recently I became a member of Bookshare.org, which is free for all qualifying students in the United States, and for the first time while using this combination of tools I thought of going back to school.
It is my hope this will help the Floyd family, and contribute to the knowledge base of the Statehouse, so unnecessary spending for tools which are already available.
My Blogs has similar information about these tools and more.
Bookshare.org and RFBD.org have great tools for the dyslexics. Main streaming is a good and economical solution to those with dyslexia and the proper tools.
Text to speech combined with digital text books and the web provide an excellent learning tool. Bookshare.org has provided such a combination, whereas a student is reading their textbook with Read:OutLoud and he or she comes to a person they do not know or a word they need defined, all they do is highlight the word and click the dictionary or go to the web and look them up.
Recently I became a member of Bookshare.org, which is free for all qualifying students in the United States, and for the first time while using this combination of tools I thought of going back to school.
It is my hope this will help the Floyd family, and contribute to the knowledge base of the Statehouse, so unnecessary spending for tools which are already available.
My Blogs has similar information about these tools and more.
To Learningdisabilities@nifl.gov June 17th, 2009
Dear Advocates:
If you all are talking about Technology.
Technology has flattened the hurdles for the Dyslexic student and adults. It seems to me, the academic environment is slow to act on new and free technology. Bookshare.Org has taken textbooks, speech to text technology and the Internet, and have combined them into a powerful learning tool.
Bookshare.Org and the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) have joined money and technology to create a free for all students with qualifying disabilities a tool which is under utilized. It is now in the hands of educators, ready to be applied to the students who need them.
Education and the printed word is no longer a hurdle which dyslexic students and adults have to jump over.
Recently the below was written and submitted to Bookshare.org. Consider visiting Bookshare.org to see the rest of the Finalist essay's on how Government funded funds have change their lives thru bookshare. The link is: www.bookshare.org/about/tellUsYourStory
If you all are talking about Technology.
Technology has flattened the hurdles for the Dyslexic student and adults. It seems to me, the academic environment is slow to act on new and free technology. Bookshare.Org has taken textbooks, speech to text technology and the Internet, and have combined them into a powerful learning tool.
Bookshare.Org and the United States Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) have joined money and technology to create a free for all students with qualifying disabilities a tool which is under utilized. It is now in the hands of educators, ready to be applied to the students who need them.
Education and the printed word is no longer a hurdle which dyslexic students and adults have to jump over.
Recently the below was written and submitted to Bookshare.org. Consider visiting Bookshare.org to see the rest of the Finalist essay's on how Government funded funds have change their lives thru bookshare. The link is: www.bookshare.org/about/tellUsYourStory
To all Newsletters and Newspapers publishers
Would you consider making your News Columns "Readplease enabled"? (see: http://www.readplease.com/english/rpenablewebsitecontent.php ) for a demo. We have "Readplease enabled" our sites.
Or make you news letter "print disabled" friendly so I who have been given by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the gift of Dyslexia.
Or make you news letter "print disabled" friendly so I who have been given by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the gift of Dyslexia.
Questions on Readplease and Bookshare
Thank you for your questions about Readplease and Bookshare programs.
1. How does it work? It is a text to speech program, any digital text which today most anything can be changed into digital text, the text to speech software will read the text.
2. Bookshare is a national program and is free for all qualifying students in the United States. see www.bookshare.org .
Thank you so much for your interest, the combination of these programs have the potential to change the way education is delivered
1. How does it work? It is a text to speech program, any digital text which today most anything can be changed into digital text, the text to speech software will read the text.
2. Bookshare is a national program and is free for all qualifying students in the United States. see www.bookshare.org .
Thank you so much for your interest, the combination of these programs have the potential to change the way education is delivered
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