College Essay About Dyslexia

Imagine looking down at the bounded pages coated in ink in hopes of getting the newly assigned reading out of the way, but instead of seeing neatly aligned words you’re faced with jumbled letters scattered across the page appearing like alphabet soup. All you’re left with now is the thought of why. Why is this happening to me? Why can’t I just be like everyone else? Why can’t I read? There is only one answer to these questions and it is simply because this student suffers from dyslexia. Dyslexia is often thought of as a disability that makes something dumb or incompetent of reading, but this is far from the truth, it is not a disability that affects one’s intellectual knowledge but rather their ability to interpret words, letter, and other

So what if students don’t have access to special schools or teachers that teach in an understandable way? Well in many places right now, there is not much they can do. It was just last year, I had reached out to my district representative on the topic of dyslexic students in the public school system, for a school project. The state representative, Sean Scanlon, replied with they were working on a bill to ensure these students suffering from learning disabilities get the help they deserve by requiring at least one teacher in each school to go through training to teach dyslexic students. Sounds good right? But soon he went on to explained that this bill would only effect students in the state of Connecticut. Which left me thinking, so what about the other students in other states? Why should students be denied there right to an education just because they learn differently? This is a topic that needs to be brought to the attention of people in higher power, it is what is right and just. It is a basic human right to know how to read, should someone be excluded and denied their right to be taught based on the fact they learn