European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Helping children with dyslexia Magazine by Bill Bergstrom associated press Henrietta Conley avoided the crowd Asi  because she forever was balled by things others found Sirn Plo Mot until she was grown up did she Lind n Way to remember right from left. I was so glad when i got  she recall when i pull my wedding band off i m lost " school was a problem Lor her daughter. Kir Berlo. Loo whenever i was in a class and the teacher called on me to read aloud i d think god. Not me again i messed up.  the 17-year-old Kimberley says. I was Reading 14 words at a time and it did t make sense at  wearing her ring Conley. 35, can Cope. It i m driving and someone says turn left i always look a my hands. You learn How to Deal with  but Conley and others with similar problems in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky did t know what it was. Or that the problem dyslexia also linked them with such luminaries As Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein that changed after Lois Combs Weinberg of Hindman. By. Puz King Over her intelligent son s Reading problems began inquiries that led her to the Kentucky association for specific perceptual motor disability headquartered in Louisville. That group provides materials Tor dyslexia programs in North Carolina. Virginia. Iowa As Well As the Kentucky cities of Louisville. Springfield Bowling Green Hopkinsville. Mayfield. Richmond and now Hindman. Program coordinator Lori Unruh says dyslexics often reverse letters in Reading words. For example left becomes  tub becomes  they also have trouble with left right up Down orientation so letters like   a and a Are confused. Children with dyslexia also often have trouble paying attention following directions or sitting still. Their performance on in tests is inconsistent Strong in some areas and weak in others Weinberg started the Hindman program six years ago with a group of four parents tutoring four children word spread and the Hindman elementary school took Over coordination of the program. Since then several Hundred children have been screened for dyslexia says Mike Mullins. The school s executive director. The after school program at Hindman last year had 1?b students and a 13-week summer boarding program Drew 53. Classes also were established in other counties across Eastern Kentucky including Perry. Letcher Pike. Knott. Leslie Breathitt. Martin. Johnson. Fluor and Clay. An advertising Campaign was dropped because the waiting list kept growing. Parents train for 3v,--hour classes. They work with the children of other parents to maintain a degree of detachment. Pairing Oil Al Long tables each sits Eye to Eye with a student a hand on the child s Back or shoulder. A raised or lowered voice or a few minutes of work standing up often serves to recapture a wandering mind and the command. I ook at  is repeated constantly around the room. Children dutifully repeat letters letter combinations and then whole words write them Down and Trace them with a Finger on a rough Board to add touch to the senses brought into play they Are trying to get the child to focus in on the word and look Al it  Unruh explains. Dyslexia does not disappear she says. But with improved concentration and knowledge of the Likely mix ups students eventually catch most of the mistakes themselves a Low carbohydrate diet also helps says one Parent Burneda Chafins of Garrett. Give mine some chocolate and you Cope with a  some students Advance As Many As three or four grades in Reading ability in six weeks Mullins says their frustration eased the children Stop becoming the class Clown or getting in trouble All the  Unruh says. The chips on their shoulders go  Ruby Jacobs a Caney elementary school sixth Grade teacher says that in 21 years of teaching she kept wondering about some of her students i d say. You re intelligent but you re not giving me anything on paper " then she discovered the problem in her own child but with training. Twyla Jacobs a High school Sophomore lost her i Don t care. I m dumb. I m stupid attitude her Mother says she s speaking out. She s very sell assured now ii really  psychologist Charles i Sherld. Who researched dyslexia in the Early 1960s Al Borea College. Wesle a Kentucky University and laterite the University of Alabama said the word blindness first described in the mid-1890s stems from impaired development of perceptual motor skills or. Samuel t. Orion a University of Iowa psychiatrist whose research led to founding of the Baltimore based Orton dyslexia society in 1949. Cited altered right and left brain development. In 1982. Or. Norman Geschwind. A Harvard medical school neurologist suggested that the same altered brain Anatomy can Lead to giftedness in other areas. Boivie encouraging examples for dyslexic children Are Thomas Edison who was unable at age 19 to spell or write a grammatical sentence Woodrow Wilson who was 11 before he Learned to read and Albert Einstein who was declared a linguistic dullard today s children also identity with More contemporary dyslexics. Including olympic Gold medallist Bruce Jenner and former vice president Nelson a. Rockefeller. Rockefeller described struggling with words that seemed to garble before my eyes and advised. Don t accept anyone s verdict that you Are Lazy stupid or retarded. You May very Well be smarter than most other children your  those Are encouraging words for children who have reached that verdict themselves. I always Felt god i m so dumb when you find out you re not the Only person who has the problem it s  said Kimberley Conley. Now a Tutor in the Hindman program. G Wilh pomelo Owem and Jamie Sparkman 8, with Tutor Rente Gay Hort. Gail Couch least Over table to emphasize a Point. Left to right Stew saturday. September 7, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13