tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82072206996124324572024-03-05T08:30:34.092-05:00Teh Dyslexic Storytellers BlogEric Wolf is Dyslexic. He has a LCSW and family therapist who is available for phone consultations and coaching to help parents come to terms with label of dyslexia being applied to their child. (828) 222-4533. <br><br> You may notice editorial errors - this blog is written and maintained by a dyslexic person - please consider the grammatical or spelling errors you see as a sign of authenticity.
Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-89384671827785749022020-01-31T01:41:00.000-05:002020-01-31T01:41:08.038-05:00The Dyslexic Advantage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlZBXODYZyxRCesYVZ8wGMt2zTaVsVweSCP6UEZf7PqOdYpRKF3GIMuKiYNl8OVXDyGiqkmBeapgOLwI1vOkYUR7AJIDOdlh9_e21fyh0s2mtMty9bgdHpdMrhmXpdDbPz6MG7eUDx8rv/s1600/Dyslexicadvanatge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlZBXODYZyxRCesYVZ8wGMt2zTaVsVweSCP6UEZf7PqOdYpRKF3GIMuKiYNl8OVXDyGiqkmBeapgOLwI1vOkYUR7AJIDOdlh9_e21fyh0s2mtMty9bgdHpdMrhmXpdDbPz6MG7eUDx8rv/s320/Dyslexicadvanatge.jpg" width="212" /></a>If you are going to read one book on the topic of Dyslexia in the modern age this would be it.<br />
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The makes the case with science and research that Dyslexic people are not the ones who have the problem. The problem is in how we teach dyslexic people.<br />
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My interruptions is that God does not play dice with the universe - to get something we all have to give something. In this case I traded the ability to learn languages for another ability - story. I won't give it back.<br />
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There is nothing wrong with a dyslexic child. They are the way that God made them. And to quote Einstein “God does not play dice with universe.” Your child who is dyslexic it is not broken. He has traded out some of his ability to learn language or his ability to do some other language base skill in order to gain a superpower. It is your job to find that superpower and to support it's development.<br />
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Dyslexic students suffer from a series ideas that exist in modern schooling. They are the canaries in the coal mine of school. Most public schooling in the United States is based on the idea that people learn on an incremental edge and a set average rate. Schools are based around the idea that it is better to teach to the average of the class. Many dyslexic students are “slow” in the first few years of learning to read or write but then exploded later in life into these categories of knowledge<br />
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I was once one so myself. I was a student who could not read who could not write in a classroom filled with literate people. It is taken decades for me to recover from that experience. The school and its effort to teach me reading and writing taught me fear, isolation, loneliness and bitterness. Even now 43 years later my heart is heavy to think of the child I was.<br />
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I would love the chance to help your family avoid the costly mistakes that my family went through when I was a child. I coach families nationwide in how to come to terms with the realities of having child with a learning disability.<br />
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I have decided to reopen this blog. Since I last published here about my experience being a dyslexic person eight years ago. I have completed my 2nd Master degree in social work, moved to Earthaven Eco-village and become an accomplished social worker.<br />
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Currently I have License in Clinical Social Work - a Master in Social Work and a Master's in Environmental Education. I will continue the rule of know outside editing in this blog and no grammar comments allowed. DOWN with GRAMMAR POLICE! Long live the spell checker.<br />
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responsibility to the people who come after to reach down as they reach
up. It has become clear to me that this blog might be a good way for me to connect with people who want to free them selves and there children from ridged or highly limited educational thinking.<br />
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I will be altering the blog to make clear that I coach parents and grandparents by phone in any English speaking county to help the understand how best to come to terms with their dyslexic children. More about that next week.<br />
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Eric Wolf LCSW<br />
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Black Mountain, North CarolinaBrother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-62418846399674877392012-07-05T00:33:00.000-04:002020-01-21T08:29:47.288-05:00The Coming Failure of Email<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Email has replaced phone calls, letters and Fax's. </b> Email has become the #1 way that people communicate. The only problem is that email doesn't work - it's a complete failure as a system - Sooo as you can tell I have a problem with email. It's just a small issue one that sort of snuck up on me over time. You see I have to spend a great deal of time just checking mine.<br />
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<b>My first email account was a yahoo account </b>- I give this account address to anyone who is really trust worthy might send me spam or in general is not a friend. My yahoo.com was first opened in 1995 - remember 1995? - I was fooling around with it and yahoo thinks I was born in 2002 - which was a problem when I was single and trying to use there dating services. but I digress...<br />
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<b>My second email address is my professional storytelling address</b> the @ericwolf.org address - this is the email you get if I think you are one of my friends, a serious business contact or someone I actually want to talk to.<br />
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The problem with both of these primary account is just that they are primary and full to the prim with stuff I don't really want or at least can't keep track of. @ericwolf.org account is really four email addresses so you can bring the total count up to 6. I also feed my five other websites into the so you can add 12 more emails and you get the a lot of emails you can send to me from different random places and still end up in my primary box. Needless to say I am very careful where I send things with one of those emails.<br />
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Then I have all the other emails - I have to have lost count.<br />
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<b>1 - ATT in there brilliance decided </b>that to get Internet I must have an email account with them - so presto another email I never check. Earning my hatred for something else I didnt' want but am forced to have.<br />
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<b>2 - Facebook gave me an email with out asking me </b>- corporate person hood anyone - if they were a person I would throttle them...<br />
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<b>3 - I had to get a Gmail account -</b> because you can't use certain aspects of Google services without Gmail - though I happy I had a choice. <br />
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<b>4 - I have decided to attend graduate school next year - </b>so I have an account there as a student I am required to have one - blah.<br />
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<b>5 - I am teaching a class at another university </b>- and surprise I am teaching a class there as well!<br />
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<b>6 - Does twitter count </b>- well they do have direct messaging - that's sorta like email<br />
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<b>OK here is the score - </b>24 separate email addresses and 8 separate places I am required to check every day or a least once a week. Plus really the yahoo account is almost un-useable because of the HUGE amount of traffic and all the presorting that goes on each day.<br />
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That's why I think email is broken or at the very least going to completely fail in the next year. - solve this problem and I give you the world.<br />
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Life is not filled with television, radio and internet. Life is filled with stories spread through television, radio and internet. Where these medias get in trouble is where they forget that they are meant to be life affirming and life sustaining. Successful art redeems life bringing joy and laughter to life and is essentially human culture reborn to serve that the current generation.<br />
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TV and radio are top down forms of media. The owner of the media gets to decide what the media will broadcast. The internet has bias too towards those who can purchase talent or ears. But the internet has it's own potential to serve a different type of storytelling. With the rise of the internet the middle class has an media engine to match the TV and radio. <br />
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We are all storytellers - but many of us have forgotten that part of the responsibility of the storyteller is which story to tell. We are used to being told by the TV what are stories we are part of. Americans are not used to the telling part of storytelling. We are learning. Slowly the giant of the future awakes to find that his chains have become string his cage a ginger house. <br />
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There are so may people still who do not have access to the internet - this fabulous tool of free expression. We are awakening from the age of the TV - we are a wakening into the age of the storyteller. We begin with the most basic question - not what do we want to consume - but what do we want to create?Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-17343165730468702532012-05-25T09:39:00.001-04:002012-05-25T09:40:57.421-04:00A Reccomendation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What does it mean to be dyslexic? How does being labeled a dyslexic become a label or a shield? These are some of the questions that this blog tackles with a fresh spin and look.<br />
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I would like to suggest the spring pragmatist blog - because it dances around dyslexia and writing so nicely. Recently the author left a comment on this blog. <br />
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I enjoyed reading some of her writing. I think you would too. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">When I was in 2<sup>nd</sup> grade I had fallen so far behind the other students that the school system told my parents they wanted to place me in special education classroom. My mother who was a Professor of education pulled strings in the school system to keep me in a public school classroom. My parents had me tested and defined as “dyslexic” by a reading tutor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 6<sup>th</sup> grade I was reading the hardy boys and I read a copy of the hobbit in 7<sup>th</sup> grade. I had reading comprehension and processing scores at the college level by 9<sup>th</sup> grade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I did not write my first essay till 8<sup>th</sup> grade – I did not write a well written one till 10<sup>th</sup> grade. My first term paper – 10 pages was in 11<sup>th</sup> grade. Even today I think essays are waste of time and I don’t like writing them. Having aid that I do believe in writing letters to the editor and letters to politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She is 4 years younger then me – still. I am 41 – she is 37<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">To make a good tall tale you must start with the truth and build into fantasy. Have fun with your audience believe that your story helps them and share the joy of the story with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American schools have been slow to provide the tools for supporting people with disabilities - but many schools have been quick to supply computers to there classrooms. Trying to look modern without changing the fundamentals of there internal structure. Now a group of people have placed all the various programs that make computers tools of access for students. Basically free open source programs that fundamentally change the rules of the game. Of course they are cutting at the tree of money that Microsoft and Apple are counting for there supplies.<br />
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If this had existed when I was in high school - how my world might have been different.Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-55676915313328554432011-02-09T11:45:00.002-05:002020-01-21T11:08:10.571-05:00The Law of Unintended Consequences<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times";">There are many books about the law of Unintended Consequences. My favorite is the follow up book too - Time and Again – From Time to Time. For the dedicated 19<sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup> century enthusiast I would recommend both – but for the rest of us here is the plot point of the book that intrudes me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">Man travels back in time to stop WWI by saving the Titanic. Man sinks said ship by changing the course of the ship. Hence the Law of unintended consequence in action. I have many more from real life… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">What about United States Trains Islamic Extremists to battle evil Soviet Empire… not good ending there either….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">I could go on and on – humans have been living this story for thousands of years so I am nor surprised to read recently that asking students to lineup in line alphabetically has had unintended consequences that last a whole life time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times";">I remember fondly they day my 4<sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup> grade teacher had us lineup by last name first – I think it was only once. Ahh the glory to have a W in your last name! The authors of this study have discovered that people with letter late in the alphabet were more likely to be quick to seize the first opportunities and people with a, b, c’s are more likely to wait and search for the best opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_936273412">http://</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_936273412">lifeinc</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_936273412">.today.com/_news/2011/01/26/5909358-how-your-last-name-affects-shopping-decisions#</a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_936273412">comme</a><a href="http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2011/01/26/5909358-how-your-last-name-affects-shopping-decisions#comments">nts</a>Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-65016829620872812062010-11-16T12:59:00.002-05:002013-06-11T13:19:22.600-04:00Where the hell are the all the Dyslexic Advocacy Organizations?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I know that many of the readers and followers of this inactive blog - that's a mouthful - are not particularly interested in following politics - but to quote Howard Zen - "You can't be neutral on a moving train."<br />
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Recently I have been following with great interest the recount in Alaska and I am disturb to see that are political system is so willing to dis-enfranchize an entire group of people. Namely people like me dyslexic folks. The question arises - <b>is the percentage of rejected write in ballots in Alaska related to the number of people who are dyslexic or other wise can't fully participate in a literate society?</b><br />
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I am going to send this question to Nate Silver of the 538 blog - I am not sure if busy Nate will have time to answer - I hope he gets to it. <br />
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Before I go into the logistics of this - here is the situation in short<br />
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Lisa M's whose name I will not even attempt to spell - father lost a governors race to Sarah Palin - Sarah endorsed Lisa M's tea party primary opponent - Guy in checkered shirt. Guy in checkered shirt (Joe Miller) actually campaigned - Lisa M did not - resulting in a surprise - Lisa M lost primary and Joe Miller received the Republican endorsement - which in Alaska is basically the election.<br />
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But it's personal so Lisa M declares herself a write in candidate. Now that would be hard any way - but she has an impossible name to spell here is it is pasted from else where - <b>Lisa</b> <b>Murkowski</b><br />
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The last federal senate write in candidate who won an election was like decades ago... Since that time lots has changed about how we view writing and reading - I hope we live in a society that honors those who struggle with literacy and dyslexia. Unless of course you live in Alaska - as of last week Joe Miller's campaign has been challenging any ballot that is misspelled or even written in script - as opposed to being printed.<br />
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Gets us back to the question... <b>is the percentage of rejected write in ballots in Alaska related to the number of people who are dyslexic or other wise can't fully participate in a literate society?</b><br />
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Many people who have trouble reading choose not participate in voting because they don't want to self identify and feel foolish as non-readers or below par readers. I found some academic papers that demonstrate a <a href="http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/0/5/8/2/p305823_index.html?phpsessid=fda2f96227f7029737726994172d677b">direct effect between literacy and voting in the States.</a><br />
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The<a href="http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/learning_disabilities.cfm"> National Institutes of Health</a> says that "About 15 percent to 20 percent of people in the United States have a language-based disability, and of those, most have dyslexia."<br />
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Let's assume that the percentage of dyslexic people in the general population is 2% the percentage voting in the election. Let's say that many of those people have successfully compensated by bringing in one of those rubber bands or a piece of paper with Lisa's name on it. But let's say that roughly half of those people who are dyslexic - forgot to bring something in writing to copy or other wise are in denial. I am a big believer in denial. or they did not vote at all. or had the paper and still miswrote it.<br />
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I think it's fair to say that the only natural answer to arrive at is that most of the people having there ballots overturned in Alaska are the literate challenged, the dyslexic and the illiterate.<br />
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Luckily for Lisa M - she has attracted enough votes that she does not need to worry about the 8% that are being challenged by Joe Miller - that guy with the checkered shirt. But in the meantime I have another question - <b>where the hell are the all the dyslexic advocacy organizations? </b><br />
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<b>Where are all these expensive nonprofits who claim to have my self interest are heart? </b><br />
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<b>At what point are they going to start actaully representing and protecting the interests of the people they claim to serve?</b>Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-90146353887387212362010-07-17T17:11:00.001-04:002020-01-21T08:38:31.116-05:00Guest Post - Dyslexic Professor Duane Smith<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">This Reader wrote this lovely comment on the last post on the Blog - so with his permission I give you his story as a post so you don't miss it.</span></span><br />
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After failing the first grade, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia. I failed English in the 10th grade, and algebra a total of five times. By the grace of God, I graduated high school with a 1.9 G.P.A on probation for bad behavior. Following high school, I failed out of three different community colleges. The first class I failed was public speaking. After my third attempt at college, in as many years, I became a car salesman. Selling cars was one of the best learning experiences of my life, however, at the age of 21, I did not posses the discipline to work sixty-plus hours a week for commission. So I quit. Needing to do something, I applied for the Los Angeles Police Department, only to fail the written exam. My father was an LAPD sergeant. A friend of my father had administered and graded the test. Severely humbled and having no other options, I decided to try college a fourth time.<br />
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I figured if I was going to be serious about school, I should start by retaking the courses I had failed. During the summer of 1991, I enrolled in a public speaking course at Los Angeles Valley College with Professor Betty Ballew. Professor Ballew not only inspired me to take the class seriously but encouraged me to join the LAVC public speaking team. To this day, I don't know why I agreed to do something extracurricular that was academic...but I did! I joined the LAVC public speaking team, and my life was changed forever. Professor Ballew inspired me to celebrate my strengths, and address my challenges.<br />
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I am now a tenured professor of speech at Los Angeles Valley College, where I serve as the Director of the forensics (public speaking team). I am now privileged to regularly participate with and foster countless success stories as I serve the very program that changed my life. On April 15-19th, 2008 the LAVC speech team competed against 74 other community colleges and over 450 of our nation's best speakers and won the Phi Rho Pi national public speaking championship tournament held in St. Charles, Illinois. However, the highlight of the year was a very special student named Marcus Hill. Marcus, a former stutterer, became the most successful competitive speaker in California community college history, as well as, the overall top speaker in the country while at nationals in Illinois. Like my Professor Betty Ballew, I am truly blessed with the privilege of helping students discover their individual strengths while actively negotiating their challenges.<br />
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In 1991, a college professor asked me if I was "retarded?". That same year Professor Ballew told me that I had "presence," and asked me to join the speech team. Professor Ballew focused on my strengths, and helped me to acknowledge and confront my challenges.<br />
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For several years I have contemplated reaching out to the dyslexic community to share my experiences. If I could encourage others to discover the empowerment that can be discovered by identifying and exploiting one's individual gifts; while at the same time motivating people to address their personal challenges, I would honor the opportunity.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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Duane Smith<br />
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If you are dyslexic and have a story to tell you are welcome to share it here... post you potential post below and Iw ill will consider it in due time...<br />
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Eric WolfBrother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-67422560867700643952010-04-06T07:25:00.003-04:002010-04-06T09:36:23.228-04:00Hiatus<b>Teh Dyslexic Storytellers Blog is on break</b> because of my work with the Art of Storytelling Podcast, the International Storytelling School, Eco Storytelling Retreat and LA Conference with the National Storytelling Festival. Be back in a few months - please feel free to read by topic in the sidebar in the meantime.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 58.5pt 63.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The <a href="http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/">Art of Storytelling</a> with Brother Wolf Show<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 58.5pt 63.0pt;">The Art of Storytelling Show has had over 127, 000 downloads since it began podcasting in 2007. Created by Brother Wolf (Eric Wolf) in the spring of 2007, the show brings the best and brightest of the storytelling community to the world stage. 43% of listeners are from outside the United States from over 100 different countries. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 58.5pt 63.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 58.5pt 63.0pt;">The Art of Storytelling Show is the world’s sole interview- format show dedicated to exploring the art and science of storytelling in all its forms. With over a hundred interviews available for listening to online at <a href="http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/">http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com</a>, this podcast has become the premier resource for understanding and practicing the art of storytelling worldwide.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; tab-stops: 58.5pt 63.0pt;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b>The biggest step towards towards success that any dyslexic person</b>, or parent attempting to support a dyslexic student can make is realizing that they don't need to make their focus in life around what sucks. Life is short and reading and writing are important. Alright in a literate society reading and writing are really important. But it is also important to spend time building other life skills, like having a moral compass, playing games, making friends and holding a job. All skills that can be accomplished by anyone whether or not they can read.</span><br />
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<b>Art is not limited by state budgets, the few hours of life apportioned or others acceptance.</b> The only limitation of art is our desire to embrace art as we know it and to love that expression that calls us into our passion - into our being - into the voice of God. Of all the arts, storytelling is the most able to thrive despite budgets cuts, institutional ignorance and community apathy. Storytelling brings people together and serves as a beacon for community healing.<br />
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<b>To be an artists is to give yourself over to a creative process that promise no fruit with each effort.</b> But instead enlightens our lives with a gift that can only be declared - soul. Art in it's purist form is God's hand in our mortal lives. A living testament that their is more to our lives then this simple physical frame. To be an artist is to see the world, not only as it is - but as it can be or will be by our will.<br />
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<b>Art makes meaning where there is none, gives power to the powerless,</b> heals wounds long scarred, and above all hold love triumphant for the entire world to see. Successful art brings people together through compassion, forgiveness and understanding. Art and storytelling is held and holds community in it's sacred trust. Art binds the sinews of the mortal world into a tapestry that ancestors hold in their immortal coil.<br />
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<b>When we examine what it means to be dyslexic in a modern society we find ourselves looking at an entire class of creative types who are artists by definition.</b> Though their creative efforts may be far from what society defines as “art”. They as a group fall in the range of artist by their very necessity of invention. Their inability to fit with the bounds of normality causes them to rush into the worlds of creativity that others will never experience. Not to say that to be dyslexic is to be born a painter, actor, poet or artist. Far from that. Dyslexics make the best storytellers by the requirements of the world bent down upon them.<br />
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<b>Storytelling is the refuge of sinners and survivors.</b> Storytelling is an art long associated with lying and dishonesty. Oral Narrative is held in disrepute for the same reasons it is so widely successful. The ease at which storytelling can be adapted and used to support the powerless and the oppressed is the same ease that allows sinners and con artists to bends it to their will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;"><b>I started out this list as a simple to do and find myself, here days later, a little pissed off at the state of blogosphere today</b>. Are we as dyslexics so castrated as to have no voice? Are we with these few exceptions just lying down and taking it? What the hell? I am lucky to have reached these ten - I started out looking for blogs but I had to settle with resources because I couldn't find ten blogs that met my standards for inclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">Look I don't know if it works. I don't care if it works - what I care about it is that they are trying something and they are by many accounts succeeding - without drugs or expensive therapies - maybe soon I will have a long conversation with a practitioner of the Davis method. They don't feel like some other slick outfits that charge thousands of dollars for snake oil, but some nice people trying there best with a difficult deal. In recognition for their efforts I place them in 2nd. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">I still dream of having other dyslexic people join me in writing posts of their experience in modern educational settings or in succeeding with overcoming there dyslexia. I invite you to help me spread the word. Here are the rules to submitting a post<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">Like many blog actually written by a dyslexic person this blog does not post that often. But the writer is really striking at the underpinnings of the intellectual crusade that terrorizes dyslexic people all over the englishdom. I found his posts witty and a cleaver counter point to the old and some what out dated thought patterns else where in the blogosphere. A bright light in another wise dark room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;">6) </span><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16pt;">Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism</span></b><span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt;"><a href="http://www.myomancy.com/" style="color: #3366cc; font-weight: bold;">http://www.Myomancy.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-15343797777225225022009-12-26T09:26:00.004-05:002010-01-29T19:27:19.263-05:00#2 - Set the regulations for the classroom and be sure that the students follow them.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVVzaNSYrwLIiVWLGjQVOSe_MKybxLMGJVE9f4UjmgwN5J5Y8GMqqWbbMo1irkgRkBTgcZgJr7_7wB5BH4i75otKicGjrdZgRjfYaRGS2FudnU22J6-dbihnaKq4T1dQUpDoofVP555Pz/s1600/IMG_4058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEVVzaNSYrwLIiVWLGjQVOSe_MKybxLMGJVE9f4UjmgwN5J5Y8GMqqWbbMo1irkgRkBTgcZgJr7_7wB5BH4i75otKicGjrdZgRjfYaRGS2FudnU22J6-dbihnaKq4T1dQUpDoofVP555Pz/s200/IMG_4058.JPG" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>This is post 2 of series on <a href="http://dyslexicstoryteller.blogspot.com/search/label/How%20not%20to%20Teach">How not to Teach.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><b>In many modern classrooms it is very easy to forget why the class has come together. The students are there to learn and the teacher is there to help them learn.</b> When the teacher becomes obsessed with the process of keeping order in the classroom, the students soon forget why they are in school at all. The classroom becomes a prison. In a classroom in which development of independent students is paramount, power is infinite because the emphasis is on empowerment of the student to learn. It is true that order must be kept in the classroom, but not at the sacrifice of student confidence and faith in themselves.. Empowerment is taught through example, opportunity and practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><b>It is the job of teachers to set up an environment where the students feel a part of a community of learners.</b> Empowerment, group process and a sense of community must be learned and earned over a period of time by the entire class, including the teacher. Teachers who see themselves embarking on a venture, in which cooperation is the key, will find that they are participating in a growing, changing, classroom community. The key word here is community, in a community every one participates in the process of day to day living. No amount of legislation, dictation or regulation will create a community of learners. Only a good example and a humble teacher can do that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: -.5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>This idea of sacrificing individual liberty and learning for the order of the classroom, and by extension the society,</b> comes out of the middle ages when an education was received in monastery from monks. The monks were into practicing austerity, sacrifice and simplicity. They also recognized that religions tend to fragment with out a heavy dose of guilt and pain to keep everyone in the same line. They organized there class rooms like churches with pews and pulpit. These are all concepts that we don’t really need in the 21st century, but these puritan values remain present still in most classrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No learning is allowed to take place because any true knowledge gained would challenge the teacher’s ability to speak with authority. </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The teacher speaks down to the student and is uninterested in what the student offers in the relationship between student and teacher. The teacher, who is busy showing their expertise off to the students, may or may not notice an attempt by the class to be independent, let alone take the opportunity to facilitate it. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's important to se</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">e how being the all knowing teacher can be a very satisfying, if ineffective role, to play in the classroom. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is 1 of 12 ways to turn a <a href="http://dyslexicstoryteller.blogspot.com/search/label/How%20not%20to%20Teach">teacher into a prison guard.</a></span></div>Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-42147903008534903452009-12-12T23:30:00.002-05:002009-12-14T09:24:18.850-05:00Intro to 12 ways to turn a Teacher into a Prison Guard.<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></span><br />
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</div><div><b>This series will attempt to examine the 12 basic traditional rules of teaching that block a student’s learning process. </b> Currently these rules could easily describe the interaction of many classrooms in the U.S. and abroad. Luckily, many teachers intuitively knew that the twelve rules did not facilitate the learning process. Growing numbers of people understand that teaching is a process of facilitating empowerment of the student's individual learning process.<br />
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</div><div><b>The Factory Model remains today the ideal classroom of our culture, despite over a hundred years of reform and progressive attempts to change the system.</b> The American vision of what a teacher does, is a day filled with drills, spelling tests, read along, sitting in straight rows, and homework. This system of dealing with kids has evolved from a medieval model into the factory model classroom of the 19th century, a model that was developed and implemented with the management tools and philosophies of that century. System of education designed to teach Americans a common culture and political apathy. <b>The current apathy and political listlessness isn’t responsible for a failure of the educational system; the political apathy of the American population is a direct result of that education system</b><br />
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</div><div><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Students and parents need to recognize themselves as consumers of a system of education. Once a student see they have choices in the school setting with the help of their parent, they begin to take the political power to improve their education. The public school system is forced to recognize parents who expect their inherent power to change the basic philosophy behind education. Parents and children can move beyond the consumer choice and create their our own models and ideals for what education means</span></b><br />
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</div><div><b>A revolution in education needs to happen in the United States today. It is change of philosophy, not method that will rescue American education. </b> The politics of education is currently defined by a struggle over who will control our schools. The politics of education can be about cooperating to unleash our youth’s ability to learn and change the world.<br />
</div></span></span>Brother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-64472773319538086562009-12-12T00:03:00.004-05:002020-01-21T11:20:31.989-05:00Just another update.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Tomorrow I will begin publishing my opus from college on the How to Not Teach or 12 ways to turn a teacher into a prison guard.</b> This article was written by me during my last semester of college in 1993 I will be updating it for clarity. These post are actually far more radicle then anything else I have published here before - I wrote this post while researching whole language reading theory and practice and other radicle teaching methods. </span></span><br />
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</div>I have been writing the dyslexic storytellers blog for the past two years for mostly my own sense of self recognition and self respect - perhaps a little bit of pure need for release of frustrations relating to dyslexia. During that time I have had a view calls from people who are parents of dyslexic children and that has been exciting. Mostly because I care so much and secondly the assumption that the average American starts off with about the meaning of the words dyslexia, learning disabilities and schooling boggle my mind.<br />
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Recently I received two calls that have forced me to stop and examine my goals for this blog. One is an invitation to attend the Diamonds in the Rough conference in Washington D.C. to be interviewed on some of the topics I have written about here on the blog. The 2nd call is from the editor of one of the most commonly used special ed text books in university settings who shall remain nameless for the moment. She had some questions - The point is this blog is having a bigger impact then I realized and so I am going to think about how I can refocus and redouble my work for the immediate future - I want to move beyond questioning the approach to dyslexia in modern society - I want to find a new approach - I want to move away from issues of integration of dyslexic students and examine how dyslexic students can live in modern society as themselves.<br />
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What does it mean to be dyslexic and not be limited by it?<br />
What does it mean to grow up never feeling stupid or side lined?<br />
How have people who are dyslexic found happiness in this world?<br />
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Eric WolfBrother Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16280244830253507832noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8207220699612432457.post-46478767240687490062009-11-26T14:41:00.001-05:002009-11-26T14:41:00.202-05:00Now Back to Storytelling for children and adults...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhYC8T79Hz7tEiCYKbvxlnMegoIxzRTLvK2Q7-NumaopKbsi4qzIwo5FYB0kZDCWM1rLjqzGsGkxqN3nKkasrr-AtgyR-Pc5UIQgAoknnbSk2HgLqM-8CNmR1l6S4g1IzvVLCaoV1bCPg/s1600/Peter2J.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhYC8T79Hz7tEiCYKbvxlnMegoIxzRTLvK2Q7-NumaopKbsi4qzIwo5FYB0kZDCWM1rLjqzGsGkxqN3nKkasrr-AtgyR-Pc5UIQgAoknnbSk2HgLqM-8CNmR1l6S4g1IzvVLCaoV1bCPg/s200/Peter2J.jpg" /></a><br />
</div><b>Years ago I started my fairy tale line Fairytales Forever as Fairy tales for Single Parents.</b> These stories a rose out of my work with inner city children in New York City. Many of whom are growing up in single parent household. This seven CD set touches on issues of interest to modern children through recasting the fairytales of old. I am planning on finishing this set next spring. You can read more about the Fairy Tales forever series at <a href="http://www.fairytalesforever.com/">http://www.fairytalesforever.com/</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>Sean Buvala</b></span><b> is working the other end of this market brilliantly</b> with his new e-book Daddy Teller. Which you can read all about at <a href="http://daddyteller.com/">http://daddyteller.com/</a>. What I really like about Sean's work - with out having read it - is that he is empowering fathers everywhere to use storytelling role model there children. How else could you get the most bang for your very limited time with your children?<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You could take my free e-course on<a href="http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/schedule_storytelling/storytelling/"> Zen and the Art of storytelling in Seven Simple Steps</a>, but that would still leave gaping holes in your knowledge of how to use storytelling with children as a dad. (or a mom) The fact is that knowing how to perform and knowing how to be present with your children are vastly different skill sets. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br />
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