See dyslexia differently

[Music] your brain is amazing and nobody else has one quite like it although everybody's brain looks the same they all work differently from each other just as we all have different color skin hair and eyes we all have a brain that's individual to us like a fingerprint we have different personalities tastes strengths and weaknesses our brains can even see and understand the world in different ways one of those ways is called dyslexia which affects how the brain handles information it sees and hears dyslexic people may find it difficult to match letters to sounds and to remember how to spell words they may even see letters moving around when they're reading they might have trouble telling left from right remembering lots of instructions can be especially hard [Music] they may need more thinking time to remember the right word [Music] as well as memorizing sequences it may be difficult for them to hold a pencil and to write by hand even organizing themselves can be difficult but everyone with dyslexia is different it can affect how people feel about themselves when they struggle with a task that other people find easy they may feel frustrated angry or sad some dyslexic people try to hide their difficulties because they are worried about what others will think of them however thinking differently can be a really good thing a person with dyslexia may be very good at seeing patterns and solving problems imagining and rotating objects in their heads telling stories and making people laugh taking things apart understanding how they work and figuring out how to put them together again [Music] inventing drawing painting and making things seeing the bigger picture dyslexic people can do a lot of things they just might do them in a different way to how others would and many of them have even become famous for it there have been many famous dyslexic inventors writers scientists business people astronomers paleontologists actors cooks singers artists architects and so on dyslexic people have changed the world [Music] see dyslexia differently [Music]

Channel: British Dyslexia Association

Views: 852,151

Keywords: dyslexia, dyslexic, studio tinto, british dyslexia association

Id: 11r7CFlK2sc

Length: 3min 11sec (191 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 11 2018