God’s Given Gift of Dyslexia

More then half the world’s population is gifted with some statute of dyslexia, but less then half go through life unacknowledged.

However many experts and educators would argue that this is a form of disability, in which the brain isn’t capable of functioning in a proper manner. Seriously who really has the right to decide if it’s the proper or improper function of one’s brain? 

Science as we all know is nothing more then an educated guess. God created each of us gifted and different, yet perfect in his eyes.

Dyslexia is a gift not a disability of the brain.  People gifted with Dyslexia possess so many undiscovered abilities. Many of them, once they understand their gift can make major impacts on the world, look at Albert Einstein who was gifted with profound Dyslexia, or how about Sylvester Stallone, who hires someone to orally read his lines for him to hear and memorize. 

Most school officials today are quick to label a student as an accelerated learner or in simple terms lazy, disruptive, and unproductive, never taking the time to look past the obvious situation. Praising the advance learner and yielding no compassion to the students that struggles through school sliding through the cracks to be forgotten. For that, what exactly is the purpose of the No Child Left Behind ACT? This is something that happens in public schools day in and day out right here in the United States. A nation where education is held in high demand, without it employers tend to look down and away from hiring you.

 It’s not the means of lacking education it’s the lack of Educator’s who care.

 In the event your child was one of the lucky ones to be tested for dyslexia and proven to have the gift, then as a parent you can began to respect and understand you child at a prosperous level. Strongly embrace the love and encouraging bond with your child; this is the beginning to an everyday challenge between you, your child, and your current school system.

Why you ask?

The student teacher ratio is overwhelming, obviously there are not enough teachers to educate our children and at the chance there being a qualified teacher that specializes in Dyslexic Education is slim to none.

 Now suddenly your child is being thrown to the wolves so to speak, off to Special Ed. where learning is not learning, the answers are literally spoon feed to your child.

 The school educator’s will surely tell you it’s the best for your child, but let’s be honest, it’s not to better their education, but to keep them from slowing down the class because they don’t have or don’t want to take the time to teach them.  

As a parent with a gifted Child of Dyslexia you have educational rights that can be enforced upon the school. Remember we all want what’s best for our children and it’s our nation’s future that will soon be in their hands.

In truth there isn’t a soul that doesn’t possess a dyslexic tendency and at some point we have all played it out, fortunately it either went unnoticed or joked away.

 I’m in no way an expert of Dyslexia, I’m just a mother who struggles everyday to understand my extremely Gifted Child, who with the proper education and support is an Honor Student and UIL participant, not to mention she assists with the kindergarten tutor program at her school.  Once she understood her gift and realized within herself she was not “a defected human being” as she once claimed; her personality, character and determination to prove some educator’s wrong bloomed like a field of wild flower with no boundaries.

God has gifted us all with our own gift, but he leaves it to us to garden our fields in to a beautiful happy life.

Encouragement and support is  crucial for all children regardless of their God given gifts.