Underestimated Advantage: Dyslexia's Role in Education and Civics with Russel Brocklen
Russell Brocklin discusses dyslexia and why many dyslexic learners are shut out by an education system that teaches from big-picture to details, contrasting it with a dyslexic-friendly, specific-to-general, question-answer approach driven by an overactive frontal brain region (word analysis then articulation). He recounts receiving extraordinary accommodations during a New York State Assembly internship, being failed for those credits at SUNY Buffalo, learning to read quickly in law school, and later securing New York State Senate funding to test a low-cost program that moved motivated…
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