Defeating Dyslexia Stereotypes
In my last two blog posts I talk a lot about what dyslexia is and how I was affected by it. You can click here to look at the first blog post. You can click here to see the second blog post. Since my last blog post I was able to actually do my agent of change. For my Agent of Change I presented to advisories and did a presentation where I tried to destroy all the stereotypes there where on dyslexia. You can click here to see me present to my advisory (Mr. Ames advisory.) In the the presentation I started off by asking everyone what they thought dyslexia is. I asked this question to see what stereotypes would come out right away. And I got seeing things backwards and floating off pages. So then I showed a video to explain dyslexia and then went into the stereotypes. I think I really got across what dyslexia is and I feel after my project they had better knowledge on dyslexia. Also after the presentation people presented to me some good questions such as “What is mild dyslexia actually?” To answer, I told them about my dyslexia and how I struggle with reading and writing because I have mild dyslexia.
Some new resource I looked at to get more information on dyslexia and to add to my presentation was websites that had different pictures that represented dyslexia. I used this to add more to my presentation. This is one picture I found: push here to bring you to where I found the picture.
For my Agent of Change I have only done one presentation so far but I am planing to do another one on Monday. I am excited to see how this turns out and all of the different varieties of questions I will get this time around. I really want to see the stereotypes being defeated. I am really happy I did this project to spread the truth to my fellow peers. I feel as if change has already begun because the questions they asked me were great. Also, the other day someone said something about dyslexia that wasn't accurate and was a stereotype and one of the students who listened to my presentation corrected them! When this happened I felt like I really did something important! And I could see the changing that I have caused happening right then. What I think I could have changed about the project was asking more advisories to do the presentation or have a big group presentation. I feel this would have spread the word even more. What I learned about myself doing this project is that I am good at getting across my point when it comes to dyslexia. What is still left for me to do in this project is do the presentation one or two more times to spread the word and to make sure people understand dyslexia very well. I am very happy that I did this project and I hope it really affects the people around me.
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