Dyslexic? They're not broken | Dr Rosa Kwok

Dyslexic? They're not broken | Dr Rosa Kwok | TEDxCoventry

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Event: TEDx Coventry 2020
Date: 29/02/2020
Venue: B2 @ Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Speaker: Dr Rosa Kwok
Talk Title: Dyslexic? They're not broken
Website: www.tedxcoventry.com/
Rosa demystifies the dyslexic mind. She will be demonstrating that we can learn a thing or two from these “seemly broken brains”, and revive our perception of dyslexia Rosa's mission is to bring evidence-based strategies to the classroom. As a business-minded education professional with over 10 years of rigorous laboratory research training and a strong publication record in peer-reviewed psychology journals, Rosa brings a unique combination of education expertise, client-facing experience, and project management insight to convey evidence-based strategies to policy makers and practitioners.
Rosa is a subject matter expert in issues of literacy development in the monolingual and multilingual population. Her current research is focused on the strength profile in children with dyslexia and bilingual pupils. Her extensive background in teaching and passion for educational psychology allows her to excel at conveying complex scientific concepts to audiences of various backgrounds and has led to multiple awards for public speaking, business competition, scientific outreach, and scholarly achievements. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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@rebekahmiller6502 3 жыл бұрын

« Children with dyslexia are born to stand out, let’s not force them to fit in. » sooooo good!

@elizabethjanetugby4695 3 жыл бұрын

I completely agree! I felt forced to fit and be perfect and it never felt right.

@margaritehausser1178 Жыл бұрын

I love that sentence, such good meaning !

@chrismorgan9154 3 жыл бұрын

The educational system needs to train teachers about dyslexia.

@mrmusketier453 3 жыл бұрын

Hi I’m from tasmania Australia and even though I have a very creative mind I feel like I am uneducated compared to most people even though in ways I’m far more advanced or so I’m told..so where do I sign up for this job! ? :)

@valeriemichelle90 3 жыл бұрын

I agreeeee!

@ad.1237 Жыл бұрын

100000% agree.

@joeycolombo2549 3 жыл бұрын

It was so embarrassing when I was in grade 3 and the teacher would ask each student to come up in front of the class and read a page from the book .

@avisengrdj7207 3 жыл бұрын

I was dyslexia😭😭😭😭 but i got my master of Special Education with the GPA 3.67. Never give up💪💪❤❤

@goldenstar9379 2 жыл бұрын

You’re still dyslexic ,you have just find out how to go about it .

@mariahconklin4150 Жыл бұрын

I'm trying it's been hard but I'm not doing well. I'm happy for you.

@artnsol700 2 жыл бұрын

“Why are we only talking about the limitations of dyslexia and not celebrating the strength and uniqueness that comes from the dyslexic mind?” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@jameslipke354 10 ай бұрын

I'm 57 years old. I am also dyslexic. I have yet to find the subject or task I can not learn. My folks raised me to know that I can learn anything I set my mind to; my only limitation would be myself. I've always thought outside the box, worked in the medical field for over 20 years, 7 years ago at the age of 50, I decided to go to cosmetology school. I have my own small salon, have crocheted since the age of 9 and have always been creative and like others who are dyslexic, have a high IQ. My folks also raised me never let my self esteem be dependent upon ANYONE else's approval, NO ONE'S should be. The ONLY PERSON you will EVER have to be good enough for is YOURSELF. I've always considered not fitting in to be one of my very, very best qualities! My daughter told me earlier this year that our 9 year old granddaughter is dyslexic and in Special Education classes now as a result. It wasn't what my daughter said that bothers me; rather it was HOW she said it. Her tone of voice seemed to suggest our granddaughter was somehow "damaged"; which she most certainly is NOT. What my daughter never knew until that conversation was her own Mom is dyslexic also. She was speechless! The stigma of being labeled dyslexic is inexcusable. Those with dyslexia ha e been, are and will continue to be some of the most intelligent, compassionate, empathetic and successful people you will ever encounter or know. Why people in the US feel the need to label everyone and everything tells you just how desperate, generally speaking of course, they are to be "accepted", "included" and be part of the crowd. Why be a folllwer when you can lead instead? Everything Dr. Kwok said is an absolute fact! ❤ ~ APRIL LIPKE

@NorbieGonthemic 3 жыл бұрын

I have dyslexia and found that technology has helped me quite a lot in my struggles.

@joeycolombo2549 3 жыл бұрын

One teacher come in the class at reading time and took me out of the class and we went to a quiet place in the school and this woman took her time whit me sounded out the words help me so so much she was my angel

@tab5221 2 жыл бұрын

Same here! My angel was Mrs. N. Smith💝

@mariahconklin4150 Жыл бұрын

That's amazing! I remember working with this kid named Angel and I believed in him he was the cutest little kid ever that struggled with reading I'll never forget him. See if teachers take the time to help these kids will be able to learn. I should have taken him to a quit spot also because that could have helped him more instead of leaving him in a classroom with a bunch of kids. That was when I worked at BOys and GIrls Club though. I would have done things differently though.

@NorbieGonthemic 3 жыл бұрын

I understand that dyslexia is hereditary. My son has dyslexia, too. My son had to have extra time to do his exams to get to university. He's good as a media engineer/producer in broadcasting technology. My grandson is not too brilliant academically. However, I don't know if he's been tested for dyslexia. He's very good at performing Arts. I wasn't very good academically at school; so, I was labelled a Dunce. But, in my mid-40s at college while training for a second career in technology I found out (after a test) that I was dyslexic, too. I also had to have extra time to do my studying and exams. I'm a good computer engineer, singer-songwriter, musician and actor. On the whole; dyslexia has rendered me from achieving my true goal in life.

@larissaroberts4510 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a super supportive and positive talk about life with dyslexia. I'm a teacher and student in the field of dyslexia (Masters with a research project in doodling and dyslexia). I firmly support your final comment and work to encourage my students to stand out and not be forced to fit in.

@MichelleKiwiGirlCrawfordvocals 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, what an inspirational and positive talk, thank you! Your mum is a wise woman, my mum has always told me to do my best and she didn't focus on my grades at school, college or uni. I know she's very proud of what I've achieved even though education and now work can be a challenge due to my dyslexic tendencies. I enjoy being different and standing out too! 😍

@melissafinnegan9255 3 жыл бұрын

I started crying. Thank you ❤️ ❤️

@Selsmittenxo 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Just found out Im probably dyslexic

@itouchtheskyslowlifeitaly 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for talking deeply of dyslexia. Very informative and helpful. Lovely watching and listening to you here on the top of the mountain of Italy.

@missel4805 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent speech!

@morrisposting Жыл бұрын

What I hear is more than just the content alone. Rosa showed a loving heart and helping attitude. That alone is really good. What I experience in HK is that, many people are rude/not caring/not knowing or in fact with bad intentions.

@morrisposting Жыл бұрын

Keep making good impact 😉

@lenasaula1304 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@nikolugo 6 ай бұрын

During the time i was in school I was so embarrassed by my dyslexia that I would kept to myself and this was throughout my middle school and high school days so everyone knew me as the quiet kid of the school

@doy8135 3 жыл бұрын

All my family said was you need to try harder.

@glenkapostas1949 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the work you do for us. Yesterday I happened to have to post the following and I would like to share with you. If your family is not touched by dyslexia chances are you can care less. Sadly this is true. Also I talk about us hiding, that is what we learn to do to survive in this world. We need to stop hiding in order to blossem.

@mariahconklin4150 Жыл бұрын

Yes but if i tell a boss i struggle with APD they won't want me there anymore of if I disclose that I have a disability they won't hire me. It's so frusterating.

@PJStrawberry 3 жыл бұрын

Really great speech thank you

@anetshaji2942 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely an amazing talk!! May God bless you abundantly.. so much I got to comprehend from this video.

@vartikaghildiyal9275 3 жыл бұрын

Notification from Ted x is a bliss🌸

@ingekatjiuongua1710 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Good one

@lightloveandawake3114 3 жыл бұрын

It always took me four times longer to study than my sister, she was 2 years younger and I got held back.i couldn’t learn to read English till I was 10 years old.

@lindapratt5102 3 жыл бұрын

I can relate! I was almost held back, but I had a wise teacher who recognized my main problem was reading whereas I was on grade level and doing well in all of my other subjects. It took me until the 5th grade (so I was 11)before I was reading on grade level.

@meganmills5412 2 жыл бұрын

I wasent held back but I read my frist book by myself at 13

@mightyjoe7067 2 жыл бұрын

I used to cry as I drive home from lectures because I always feel like I was the dumbest in my group, on our graduation day my course mate said to me Am so proud of you, I was thinking you will drop out, I graduated with a degree in International business. I have a scholarship to go for a Master degree program in logistics system but am worried if I should go for it or just let go and face my life.

@MichelleKiwiGirlCrawfordvocals 2 жыл бұрын

Your course mate is very encouraging! Would you like to study for the Masters? Or would you rather apply for post grad employment now? Only you know the right path for you. I was a full time student until my mid 20s and I have no regrets despite the debt I incurred.

@mightyjoe7067 2 жыл бұрын

@@MichelleKiwiGirlCrawfordvocals Thanks for your comment and courage, I graduated 2018 from a university in Vilnius Lithuania and have been working and running my own little business in a different European country, when I read about my right in the country I discovered that I have a free scholarship if I want to further my Education. Which country do you live and what is your story about Dyslexic?

@MichelleKiwiGirlCrawfordvocals 2 жыл бұрын

@@mightyjoe7067 That's cool, it sounds like you're doing well already with your business! I live in England and I was diagnosed with dyslexic tendencies when I was a 1st year uni student. I have achieved a lot since then in education and now work very hard in my current job including additional hours in the evening to manage my workload.

@mariahconklin4150 Жыл бұрын

You should your story encourages me so much. I'm so proud of you. I'm sick and tired of people telling me I can't do it or telling others they can't do it. We can. Even someone with Scizophrenia can hear us and know what we are saying and with help they to can get better.

@Ishwarya.29 3 жыл бұрын

I remember embarrassing myself in front of class when a teacher forced me to read n all the words were jumbled up n literally felt like throwing up in fear n anxiety n shame

@mightyjoe7067 2 жыл бұрын

I understand, I face that for 3years when I was in college

@dazadorph45 3 жыл бұрын

The education system in the UK is set and designed more literacy and mathematics due to it is measurable, other subjects are not, it also what parents want to see that their children are progressing well and will do well, the system in the UK is not flexible in its approach for children and teenagers, but when we start to work and live life as adults you don't have any support or know how to get any support. Life is more of a challenge for people with dyslexia and don't know or recognise their strengths.

@ryanadam7559 2 жыл бұрын

Nice

@joeycolombo2549 2 жыл бұрын

While we do not look at the things which are seen.but at the things that are not seen. for the things which are seen are temporary .but the things which are not seen are eternal

@mikegrazick1795 3 жыл бұрын

Public school failed me. Not the other way around.

@traceyhopkinson5486 3 жыл бұрын

Dyslexia as spoilt my life! ☹

@lisajohnston5081 2 жыл бұрын

Truth

@NorbieGonthemic 3 жыл бұрын

I hate watching movies with subtitles! Are there any apps or software that can read subtitles in English aloud?

@fannytrujillo1113 3 жыл бұрын

En españolll !!!! P favor !!!! Gracias !

@jesmopera2685 Жыл бұрын

I always told myself i was broken 😞

@random_art15 Жыл бұрын

I got dyslexia in my early 32.. so i got dyslexia’s comorbid adhd. Shall i have a succed when I don’t have any treadment to admire that

@lindapratt5102 3 жыл бұрын

Truly an inspirational lecture. However Myers-Briggs is really a behavioral indicator. If you were to take the Myers-Briggs 10 or 15 years after the original assessment, you could easily have a completely different outcome, especially if your home life, job, children situation has changed. Our behaviors will change depending on whether we are at school/work/home, stressed, sick, happy, etc. The only true personality indicator is the Color Code by Dr. Hartman. By studying The Color Code you can learn your strengths and weaknesses and thereby learn to be a more positive happy person. You also learn the best way to talk to others depending on their "color". The Color Code saved our marriage and taught my husband to be a little more sensitive to others needs.

@emmaharkins 3 жыл бұрын

what was the link she was talking about to the personality thing? I'd be really interested to do it bit its not in the description

@coznow 3 жыл бұрын

Myers-Briggs Test! :)

@emmaharkins 3 жыл бұрын

@@coznow thank you! 💕

@anitrajersey3578 2 жыл бұрын

I tried several times to post the link but my comment seems to disappear right after. Try to Google: 16 Personalities. It helped me immensely to understand my traits as "Turbulent Defender" ISFJ-T 🙂

@maxplayz9885 3 жыл бұрын

how can i find teachers to help my children who are trained? or training so I can help my children.

@lindapratt5102 3 жыл бұрын

I was a Resource Teacher in Reading and Math in the public schools. Here are a couple of things you can do to help your children: 1. Get a list of sight words off the internet. Type (the font should be easy to read) the words out on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper, landscape, mixing about 2 dozen words and repeating the same words in different ways until the sheet is filled. Allow your child about 5 minutes to read the words outloud on their own. Then time your child reading the list to you for one miute. Do not mark the paper or correct the child until the one minute is up. Then calmly just tell the child the correct word he/she missed. When you feel the child has mastered that set, make up a new sheet of different sight words. Objective: to help the child to read sight words without having to think about them. 2. Have your child write out his/her spelling words 10 times each. Next give the child an oral spelling "test". Any words the child misses needs to be written 15 times each. If spelling orally for your child is impossible, then allow him/her to write the words out. However, never read the words in the same order two days in a row. Objective: using fine motor memory, in addition to seeing and reading the word correctly. 3. Have the child write out the multiplication tables. (Do not use flash cards! The child will only remember how many he/she got wrong.) Start with the 2 x's. Watch carefully that the child writes out (in columns) 2 x 1= 2, 2 x 2 = 4.........2 x 12 = 24. Have the child do this 8 times daily. (Children will try to take a short cut and just write a colum of 2's then next to it a column of x's, then a column of ='s then just copy the answers. Doing it this way is just handwriting practice.)Then give the child a sheet of problems with the 2x's all mixed up. Time the child for one minute. When you feel the child has mastered the 2x's, move on to the 3x's. Note: this exercise can also be used for addition and subtraction facts. Objective: when the child sees the complete equation correctly and repeatedly, the child will be able to memorize the math tables. Side note: one year a 5th grade teacher came to me and informed me that my students knew the multiplication tables better than the regular ed students! Another time a parent thanked me for teaching her daughter to memorize.

@sergioelyseo8997 2 жыл бұрын

Hearing about who has dyslexia doesn’t help me

@dudelebowski8629 2 жыл бұрын

I was diagnosed with ADHD, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and Dyslexia in my childhood but never got the help needed living in a Low-income Environment doesn't help when exposure to drugs,violence, gangs etc is ordinary. From 5th grade to Junior year of highschool i was mostly a D and F student failing most classes tho i really wanted to do it and LEARN i just never received the right help and would repeatedly tell me just (TRY A LITTLE HARDER). After my sophomore year i just didn't care and gave up Still went to class but in my head most the time, got involved with the wrong friends and gangs started smoking,drinking etc senior year came graduation etc and i had to take a week of summer school to get my diploma lmao. Now Sober/clean and a Few years in community college my brain is only good enough for a TRADE lmaoo. Would have loved to study Engineering and venture to the SPACE Field but im dyslexic and Horrible at math. THANK YOU education system!

@nathaliemorse9680 Жыл бұрын

Many in trades make more than I do as a teacher. Your brain is not 'only good' enough for a trade. Don't give in to other people's version of you (hard sometimes). If you still want to become an engineer, It may take longer, however, do it. If in the USA then a community college will help you get an associate degree in a related field. Then you can work on the bachelor's degree online with maybe some required in-person courses. In my 30s I got certified to be a teacher. Being a teacher with dyslexia is more of an advantage than a disadvantage, to be honest. I can think outside the box easier to help students. My creativity level is often higher than my peers. The students love knowing I'm dyslexic and it's a game for them to try and catch me at something. My thought is if they're watching what I'm doing so close then they're paying attention/learning. I find when I shine bright in what I'm doing most people/adults don't care I'm dyslexic. The students love looking out for me, being helpful, and feel less intimidated when they need help.