Tag Archives: Dyslexic no more: Saved by the ABC’s

The Savant who Knew His Mother’s Love (part 1/3)

Posted on January 19, 2024 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

  Joe and I are different from other people. We just accept things when God puts them before us. It’s like accepting what you have to do in life. Things come at you, and you don’t say, “Am I going … Continue reading →

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Book Review: How to Tutor Reading, Writing & Arithmetic

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

“It is not necessary to have had formal teaching experience to become a tutor. If you have enjoyed reading to children and answering their questions, then you should enjoy tutoring. With the proper instructional materials, anyone who enjoys children can … Continue reading →

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Phonics Saves a Struggling Reader — She’s now a Global Change Agent

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

“Unfortunately, I not only know about the reading problem in our schools, but I am well aware of how it feels to be labeled a reading failure. Feeling is a lot more acute than just knowing.” Mary didn’t start out … Continue reading →

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The Stigma of Dyslexia

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

Sometime, somewhere, within the history of American education, it was decided that it was not good to write with the left hand. Writing this way was often punished. I learned of just such an example, in the most unusual of … Continue reading →

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Miss Cora & the Kentucky Mountain People

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

The Kentucky Girl (commencement speech on graduating from teacher’s college)  While other girls were posing, their charms being exhibited, their characteristics discussed. There has lived and walked, among the evergreen pines and the sturdy oaks, of the mountains of Kentucky, a creature … Continue reading →

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The Irish Mom who gave her Son a Voice

Posted on May 2, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

Tragedy Leaves a Young Girl without a Family “At the time many children were playing on the street as several women from the tenements sat on the pavement watching on. Yet within minutes the scene was one of screams and dust … Continue reading →

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A Convicted Murderer, a Columbia Grad, and a Missionary

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

IT IS LIKE A MIRACLE… for a man, who never knew a letter, to walk out of our school in an hour able to read a whole page of his own language with Roman letters. We see that miracle happen over … Continue reading →

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Carpenters, Musicians & the ABC’s

Posted on March 29, 2022 by Meg Rayborn Dawson

Consider carpenters. Before starting projects, they must understand their tools and how to use them. Consider musicians. Before joining orchestras, they must understand notes and how to follow them. Consider readers. Before reading, they must understand letters and how to … Continue reading →

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