Part Three: Where we're going

Pre Writing Artifact: free write In class - I was in fourth grade and I was failing all of my classes. My teachers said that I was doing perfectly fine and that I was just slower than the rest of the peers. My parents decided to get me tested. They found out that I was very much dyslexic and also had ADHD. They decided to put me into a special school where I would get special help with my reading, writing, and overall learning. It helped me a lot and I was very thankful for it. Revision Artifact Dyslexia is a super common learning disability but is very misunderstood by people. Dyslexia affects 1 in every 5 people and a child has a 50% higher chance of having it if one of their parents has it. About 70-85% of children who actually have dyslexia go undiagnosed and don't receive the help that they need in order to succeed. People's experiences with dyslexia are very different. For me I was diagnosed with dyslexia in the fourth grade. I was failing out of school and during the parent- teacher conference my teachers said I was just slow and needed to catch up. It wasn't until my parents saw the grades I was getting and then saw the grades my twin sister was getting that they knew something was off. They decided to get me tested and found out that I was on the more severe side of dyslexia with severe ADHD. I was taken out of school and put into a small school that specializes in teaching kids with dyslexia. For me my dyslexia makes me struggle with reading comprehension, overall memory, sounding out words and spelling them, along with being able to put my words on paper. That is just my dyslexia because everyone with dyslexia has different experiences and different weaknesses and strengths. For example I was inspired to do my third project based on my presented mentor text. I watched a video and in the video it was people talking about their own experiences that were different from mine. One boy said that he was very good at writing. It was just his reading that was the problem for him and his dyslexia was very mild. Another adult woman said that her spelling and pronunciation of her words was her biggest problem along with her ADHD. Going back to the statistic of how 70-85% of people who were never diagnosed as children never got the help they needed and just assumed that they were stupid. My goal for my project is to educate young adults that go to TCU and make extra help centers easy to find and access. I want to connect those who are struggling in similar ways so that they can help each other. As I said, learning disabilities are different experiences for everyone and one person's weakness might be another person's strength. By connecting them it will create extra help and a strong network. I will create a facebook group in order to connect with people along with posts of new meetings coming up with extra help hours. Along with that I will create a poster that can be hung around campus and in dorms with a QR code on it. I know for me I have never seen anything like that and don't know the first place to look for extra help centers. I hope that by doing this I can connect a community of people who are struggling so that they can help each other along with tutors. Peer Responce Good, I would work on grammer and make sure you make it really define how you are going to help those with dyslexia and your plan. Mentor Responce When I had my meeting with Mat I told him about my Finale Campaign and the route I took with it. We discussed how I took the idea of dyslexia and then turned my finale campaign into tutoring that benefits people with learning disabilities or overall having trouble with school.