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Dyslexia An Unwrapped Gift

Posted 20 months ago|23 comments|1,737 views
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The misunderstood Stigma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gFsmEZ6m...

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I have been successful in all of my pass enterprises, successful inventor, (32 patents) won the primer's award of design excellence, manufactured my inventions. After 20 years when the business was no longer feasible, started a video production company, and won the entrepreneur of the year three times, and again with the acceleration of technology the business became outdated.

Edward Lee Multimedia Inc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tCZef0nE... (Blockbuster rentals is now in bankruptcy)

So I am now in the "Go Green" the Canadian exclusive for LED tubes and bulbs.
http://www.NewTekLed.com

My book on business advice is published www.acceleratedsuccess.ca

And after all that, eternity in Heaven for eternity
Refined by Fire www.refinedbyfire.ca

However, I am not perfect. One of my disabilities is "Dyslexia" I have so much to say but not only this disability slow me down in expressing myself, but people who may not have any creativity or commonsense, just love to try to put me down, and think of themselves as smart and categorize me as stupid. (but I am made perfect in Jesus Christ)

The problem is they can't explain. How could an intelligent person have such an innovate pass, if my farther had recognized my gifts, I may have even been more successful?.

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However, after all said, thank God that I am confident and unmovable in my faith and convictions and am bold enough to support the underdog. When I fell into a depression, my brother would say to me, pull your socks up.
Soldiers facing death and under stress, they call it "post dramatic stress" and how many really care? Or take the time to understand? I'm aright Jack they say.

The word 'dyslexia' arrives from the Greek meaning 'difficulty with words'.
Dyslexia is frequently related to as a 'specific learning difficulty', generally with spelling, writing and reading, and occasionally with numbers. People who are dyslexic may have difficulties with spelling, placing things in order, following instructions, and may mix up left and right.

Dyslexia is not a 'disease' that someone should or can be healed of. It is a type of mind, like any other, with its own specific strengths and weaknesses. We all have distinctive talents - things we are good at and things we find hard. Dyslexic children, teenagers and adults find spelling and sequencing hard, but also have other areas at which they excel - occasionally creativity, physical co-ordination, lateral thinking or empathy with others. The prominent thing is to elevate people's confidence!

Getting to the heart of the matter begins with over viewing academic mistakes, and understanding what the person is trying to convey. True intelligence is not getting hung up with petty things like if a word is spelled correctly. For all of you with this problem, you will find yourselves expending unnecessary energy. The point is there is a message for all of you, hoping you will go deeper, and receive it.

I am in good company; there are some people with dyslexia:

Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world.

General George Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr., was a leading U.S. Army general in World War II. In his 36-year Army career, he was an early advocate of armored warfare and commanded major units in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations.

Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, an American politician, was Governor of New York and the 41st Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977.

Hans Christian Anderson
Hans Christian Andersen, was a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales.

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man" and as a universal genius. Leonardo is famous for his masterly paintings, such as The Last Supper and Mona Lisa.

Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson, KBE, a famed British entrepreneur, is best known for his widely successful Virgin brand, a banner that encompasses a variety of business organizations.

John Lennon
Lennon was expelled from school for misbehavior. His teachers were unaware that he suffered from dyslexia.

Sir Winston Churchill
The Right Honorable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS, PC was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War.

Henry Ford
Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and is credited with contributing to the creation of a middle class in American society. He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles..

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, author, inventor, lawyer and founder of the University of Virginia.

Steven Spielberg
Film producer of 'Jaws', 'E.T.', 'Jurassic Park', and many other brilliant movies.

John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as Jack Kennedy or JFK, was the 35th President of the United States (1961–1963).

Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, dealt in his youth with the incredible pressure of being raised under the popularity and dominance of his father. Nevertheless, he himself became a successful IBM leader.

Mohammad Ali
Olympic light heavyweight boxing champion
William Hewlett
Dyslexia forced the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company to memorize schoolwork.

And many moooorrrree!

http://www.dyslexia-test.com/famous.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia
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20 months ago: This is a great subject for a discussion, and repentance. The next time you meet a bad speller, he may be a genius.
20 months ago: Look at it another way, lazy spellers could be seen as geniuses if they bothered to check their own work.

People who read other peoples writings, either published in the mainstream rags or on obscure blogs, do not want to spend their time trying to decipher what the writer was trying to say amidst all the misspelled words, improper grammar and misused tenses, not to mention using the wrong word entirely. Once it is apparent that the writer doesn't care enough about what he is saying to find and correct the misspelled words, the reader begins to lose faith in the ability of the writer to formulate coherent sentences and may stop reading the writers output entirely.

Hiding behind statements about geniuses who are bad spellers will not elevate your writing to that of a true genius.

The truth be told Ed, I am a horrible speller, but I'm intelligent enough to know that if I check my work and correct my spelling that I'll come across to the reader as someone who cares enough to actually check my work so that I won't appear to be an idiot who can't spell.

You are a businessman. How many candidates for a job at one of your businesses would you reject due to multiple misspelled words in their resume? Be honest, your God is watching you.

Dyslexia is no excuse. Even a dyslexic can use spell check.

One last thing. The only way you can prove to me and get credit for being dyslexic is to publish your doctors diagnosis that you are truly dyslexic. The reason for this is you are trying to use it as an excuse for your poor writing skills, or for your being a lazy writer.
Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger
England
20 months ago: Next time you see an alcoholic lying in the street, would you call that an unwrapped gift?
20 months ago: Dyslexia is race, gender, political party, religion, and any other tag you can think of, neutral. Doesn't matter what you think causes it; it won't be anything you can pin a name on.

If you think you might be, go to your doctor and get tested. The only true dyslexic is one who has been diagnosed by a medically trained physician. Just thinking you are or being told by your parents or teachers that you are isn't good enough. Has to be an official declaration by medical personal, in writing, anything less is just someone trying to take advantage of a condition many suffer from.

If you are truly dyslexic, good luck and keep struggling, there is hope and you can succeed.
20 months ago: Dyslexia, it's different, did you look at all of the information I posted?
20 months ago: No, I didn't review all the videos. I'm no spring chicken. Been in many situations where I was forced to learn about many differnent excuses people use to get out of work. "I'm dyslexic" is a favorite, that's why a doctors diagnosis is required.

You were in the military. The job itself requires that you be able to work with and for many different people throughout your career, I did for 20 years, both as a worker and then as a supervisor and aircrewman with my own crew that I was the top enlisted man of. Then (of course) you were probably an officer and didn't have much dealings with the people who really make the military work.
20 months ago: Were you able to view the videos, I know you have a slow connection?
20 months ago: I din't research it, is NewTek yours?

Can't afford to buy in though, 300K is a bit out of my price range. Would be nice to have some samples to see if they are half as good as the claims. Of course 60 to 130 bucks per tube is a bit out of everyones range and those are general internet price, not NewTeks'.
markbyrn
markbyrn
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20 months ago: Reviewing that list of famous folk, it seems and everybody could claim to have some form of Dyslexia. Tom Cruise claims he had dyslexia and that Scientology cured him. Unfortunately, Dyslexia is one of those conditions that's conducive for exploiting by charlatans and their quack cures.
20 months ago: Forget Tom Cruise, this is a problem I have always had. I knew that it had something to do with how the brain processes information.

It is just like a depression, people say that you are weak, but it is just the opposite in most cases, when goals are not realized in our time frames it produces stress, and stress causes burn-out.

I am not intimidated to speak about these subjects. I know first hand, and want to share my experiences.

There is sufficient proof to more than prove Dyslexia, tell me what have we to gain in disclosing a weakness.

If I tell you have to be successful, although I have proof, I would still be criticized, before I became a Christian, it was a pleasure to leave e critic in my dust, you can say that I have had a change of heart.

If my testimonies are not received in good faith, it's not my lost.
I will have my laptop on the cruise, and will be posting a video, offer the gift of Salvation to those that would receive and it's all free, even my time is FREE.
20 months ago: Ed, what did you gain by disclosing that you think you are dyslexic? Was it to get sympathy? Explain why your grammar and spelling are a bit weak? There has to be a reason, otherwise you wouldn't have disclosed it to the reading public.

Why don't you just send up a prayer and have your all powerful diety fix it for you? According to some of your other posts, that's all a person has to do to get the answer they want, or should I say, the answer you want them to get. Remember, you told me to, so now I'm telling you to, didn't ever work for me, maybe it will work for you since you're so much more sincere than I must have been.

Sorry if it feels like I'm mocking you, it's just that turning the tables might give you some insight into how blind you might be to reality.
20 months ago: Retarded are the happiest people, they receive the gift willingly, well they may have other problems, like discrimination.
20 months ago: What gift? If it's the one I think you are talking about, doesn't everybody? Otherwise you'd be forcing it on them and that just wouldn't work quite right now would it?

Yes they are happy, most of them. They don't tend to drag in all the negative aspects of a situation like "normal" people do. They focus on the chore and how it will help them or someone else. If we all lived the way mentally handicapped people do, those that can function in the world that is, then we would all be happier too. I have a mentally and physically handicapped niece, she is very happy most of the time, but for her it's more a matter of living in her own little world because she isn't one that can live in the "normal world" without constant supervision.
20 months ago: What I gained is I have discovered something that many people did not know, for myself, and for many people that are discriminated against, and have lacked confidence in excelling in life.

Now for me, I intend to write whether I am dyslexic or not. I am an overcomer. You may not realize it, but I enjoy the challenge for RantRave to go into the Lion's den, but you six are really a ****cat.
19 months ago: Ed, you can call me a p-u-ss-y-cat or any kind of cat you desire. I am just one of many who will take the time to refute what you post, to argue against your ideas and to speak out for those who don't have the time or means against those who will usurp powers not granted to them.
19 months ago: For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger
England
19 months ago: Edward I understand the very real problems wiyh dyslexia. How do leading figures in our society get away with writing trash as did Graham Stringer labour mp for Blackey Manchester.

Re-Forget Tom Cruise, this is a problem I have always had. I knew that it had something to do with how the brain processes information.

Graham Stringer.

Manchester Blackley Labour MP dyslexia is 'a cruel fiction',

His latest bugbear? Dyslexics.

"Dyslexia is a cruel fiction. It is no more real than the 19th century scientific construction of 'the æther' to explain how light travels through a vacuum," he writes in his column on ManchesterConfidential.com.

The MP's basic argument is that children are labelled "dyslexics" because they're confused by poor teaching methods. He also makes the point that 80% of prisoners are functionally illiterate, while a similar number are drug users.

Stringer says: "I am not, for one minute, implying that all functionally illiterate people take illegal drugs and engage in criminal activities, but the huge correlation between illiteracy and criminal activity is striking."

I (Gardian reporter) phoned Stringer to ask what had inspired his piece, and he told me: "Just a long-term annoyance with the failure of the system to teach children to read, and the consequences of that." And responding to some of the stronger reactions to his words, he said: "That doesn't surprise me.

"A whole industry has sprung up around creating a medical condition when what is needed is better methods to teach children to read.

"There are incentives in the system: students who can't read are given longer in exams, extra aid, free computers, financial assistance.

"We should be dealing with the problem, not incentivising people to believe they have a condition which doesn't really exist."
19 months ago: You mean like ADD?
BruceDPrice
BruceDPrice
Virginia Beach, VA
19 months ago: All the phonics experts say that dyslexia doesn't, for the most part, exist.

Do you recall how you were taught to read? It's hard to remember. But the crucial junction is this: if a child starts memorizing shapes, as opposed to breaking word into sounds, you will have lots of problems. (Canada is heavily invested in Whole Word.)

I have an article on the web called "John Dewey, Dumbing Down, and the Scandal of Dyslexia." It develops this thesis. Easy to find.

For my shorter take, here's a 5-minute video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFLLnRWR...

(Flesch discusses in his second Johnny book the most interesting aspect of this debate. He suggests that reading is very complex, and uses many parts of the brain, so that if somebody truly had a brain defect with regard to reading, it would show up in many other aspects of their behavior. But the Education Establishment has thousands of American parents believing that their children are super-bright all across the board EXCEPT for this one little skill called reading. Highly unlikely.)
19 months ago: I don't believe that. Ask anyone who has it, but any weakness can be improved.
BruceDPrice
BruceDPrice
Virginia Beach, VA
19 months ago: PORTIONS OF RECENT (LONG) EMAIL FROM DON POTTER,
WHO IS A LEADING AUTHORITY ON READING (VISIT DONPOTTER.NET)


"Dear Phonics-First friends and other Thinking People,

I gave another Miller Word Identification Assessment yesterday to a
fourth grader from a local public school. He has been identified as
dyslexic and is in the Take Flight program from the Scottish Rite in
Dallas, a typical Orton-Gillingham program that uses only cursive
handwriting. They have correctly identified him as having some form of
dyslexia, but made no attempt to identify the source of the problem.
The assumption is that the child was born with a neurological
difference from the norm that makes reading difficult for him. The
purpose of this little e-mail is to challenge that assumption and
speculate based on the MWIA scores that educational-dyslexia is a more
probably cause....

Conclusion: The conclusion simply forces itself upon any "thinking
person:" The child has artificially induced whole-word dyslexia. To
have true dyslexia, he should have missed a similar number of words on
both lists and a similar speed. The slow-down is highly significant in
identifying educational-dyslexia....

Let me add that I am encouraged that the district has diagnosed him
and has him in Take Fight instruction. My criticism is not with the
dyslexia program and their valiant efforts to help the kids with
phonics and cursive handwriting. My bone of contention is with the
regular classroom teachers who persist in teaching sight-words and are
creating vast amounts of illiteracy."

EVERYTHING POTTER SAYS FITS PERFECTLY WITH FLESCH, BLUMENFELD, ENGELMANN, AND MANY OTHERS. ALSO SEE MY ARTICLE "NINE READING EXPERTS EXPLAIN THE SAD STATE OF READING."

http://www.americanchronicle.com/article...

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17 months ago: Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

I have no problem in reading this, can you. I took me 30 seconds. Can you read it?
BruceDPrice
BruceDPrice
Virginia Beach, VA
17 months ago: This has been banging around the internet for years, usually served up to prove Whole Word--which is the opposite of what it proves.

Sight-word memorizers would not be able to recognize the never-seen-before configurations. Nor are they trained to recognize individual letters.

Phonics readers are used to working with individual letters. Such readers dip into a word once, twice, three times--as often as needed to pronounce that word.

In this case, there's just a little unscrambling. Any good reader can read this.

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