Journey Into Dyslexi Movie Analysis

Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects reading, writing, spelling, and sometimes speaking in children. Dyslexia is known as one of the common disabilities in children. This disorder can be mild or severe. Every single child diagnosed with dyslexia is different in some way. Treatment for dyslexia should be started as early as possible for best results, however; it is never too late. One in Ten students in the United Stated have Dyslexia. I think most educators that fail to identify students that struggle with dyslexia is because they are just simply uneducated about the topic. Missing the signs to identify a student to have dyslexia can affect students in the long run in multiple ways. I feel that there are many ways that families can advocate if they think their child has a reading disability. Dyslexia
If one does not know the qualities, behaviors, and struggles of students with dyslexia then how is it possible for the to identify it of their own. Before watching the movie Journey into Dyslexia, I felt as though I would not be able to identify that a student is dyslexic on my own. This movie has helped me better understand the struggles that students have with this disability. I feel as though every teacher should watch this documentary because it teaches so much on not only the characteristics of the students who have dyslexia, but it trains our minds to sympathize with students who struggle. Just because a student cannot grip a concept does not make them dumb. If every teacher was educated on what exactly dyslexia was, then I feel like many more students would not have to struggle with the things some of these students did in this video. I cannot believe teachers actually called them stupid, failures, and lazy. This is a failure in teaching, not the disability that the student may