and i used to just say i had dyslexia because people knew what dyslexia was. excuse me, but nobody knew what vcfs was. so i figured, excuse me, if i wrote a book about it, people would just kind of leave me alone for a while and go out and buy the book. and so i would just start to tell people go out and buy the book if you want to go about it. >> it was very revealing and i think a lot of people are amazed and impressed that you would be so honest about it. what made you be able to do that? i mean, you must have had some confidence to be able to say, here's what it is. >> i think it's because my parents were actually always very open with me. they never told me, you know, we're a catholic or a protestant. you have to believe in this god and you have to do that and pray at this time and they kind of let me figure out, you know, any god who i could choose or if i could choose a god or not and i do believe -- i believe that there's a force -- i believe there's a god but i believe there's more of a force of nature and there's energy, and that energy creates the g

. >> coming up through middle school and high school i've dealt with dyslexia and add.xia means you don't read good, add means if you did read it right it doesn't matter. it's cool tough, church stuff. everything was hard for me to get through. when i started realizing god had a different idea for my life and it was to be up in front of people i didn't know what to do with it. so i had to sort through the idea that god doesn't need me that he wants me. and it really had to change the way i think and god said to paul my grace is sufficient for you and my power is made perfect in your weakness. that's where the song became real for me speak and the song is called voice of truth. casting crowns. i hope you'll not only download this song but other ones but remember in november they have a brand-new cd coming out for yet hopefully we will get them back to sing some songs from it. let's do it. voice of truth. ♪ oh, what i would do ♪ to have the kind of faith that it takes to come out coco under the crashing waves =moco to step out of my comfort zone for code into the realm of

>> coming up through middle school and high school i've dealt with dyslexia and add.yslexia means you didn't read good. add, if you did read is good, it didn't matter. school and church was tough. and god had a different idea for my life than i did, to be up in front of people and i didn't know what to do with that. i had to sort through the idea that god doesn't need me, but that he wants me and it really had to change the way i think and that god said to paul, he said my grace decision for you and power is made perfect in your weakness. and that's where this song became real for me. >> mike: it's called voice of truth and download this one, but in november, they have a new cd, we hope we'll get them back to sing songs from it. let's get to it, "voice of truth." it. "voice of ♪ ♪ oh, what i would do to have the kind of faith it takes it climb out of this ♪ ♪ on to the crashing waves ♪ to step out of my comfort zone to the realm of the unknown ♪ note photo where jesus is and holding o holding out his hands ♪ ♪ calling out my name and they may laugh at me ♪ ♪ reminding

and being a member of the national dyslexia association board, we're making sure our curriculum is cuttingedge >> you've done this for 202 years now? >> i with -- wish, but 30. >> no such thing as a typical opening day? >> no. no such thing as a typical day at school. >> ben shiffrin. thank you. >>> let's look at weather, here she is, susan schrack. susan? good morning. things are looking pretty good. we have a mix of sun and clouds and the clouds are thin enough that the sunshine is making its way down here towards the ground. 77 degrees now. relative humidity 85%. wind is calm. barometric pressure is on the way down. temperatures around the region, 79 hagerstown. 74 degrees in york, pennsylvania. 79 easton. 86 degrees in ocean city. it certainly feels like it. it feels more like 81 in baltimore. feels like 86 easton. feels like 95 at the beach. so definitely a good beach day at least for the morning. then the afternoon thunderstorms are going to roll through once again. so overnight we had mainly cheer skies. we saw the high thin clouds starting to move through. last couple hours. they a

dyslexia means you didn't read good and atd means if you did read it good, it didn't matter.tarted realizeing that god had a different idea for my life and i really had to sort through the idea that god doesn't need me but that he wants me and it real lay had to change the way i think and said my grace is efficient for you and my powers make perfect in your weakness. >> the song is called "voice of truth." casting crowns. i hope you will download not only this song and the other ones but november they have a brand new cd coming out. you will want to get that. hopefully we will get them back to sing some songs from it. let's do it. "voice of truth." ♪ ♪ the kind of face it pays to climb out of this ♪ ♪ on to the crashing waves, you step out of my comfort zone, into the realm of the unknown where jesus is, and he is holding out his hand but they call out my name and laugh at me ♪ ♪ reminding me of all the times i tried before and failed, the waves they keep on telling me time and time again boy, you will never win, you will never win ♪ ♪ but the voice of truth tells me a differ

dyslexia means you didn't read good and atd means if you did read it good, it didn't matter.i really had to sort through the idea that god doesn't need me but that he wants me and it real lay had to change the way i think and said my grace is efficient for you and my powers make perfect in your weakness. >> the song is called "voice of truth." casting crowns. i hope you will download not only this song and the other ones but november they have a brand new cd coming out. you will want to get that. hopefully we will get them back to sing some songs from it. let's do it. "voice of truth." ♪ ♪ the kind of face it pays to climb out of this ♪ ♪ on to the crashing waves, you step out of my comfort zone, into the realm of the unknown where jesus is, and he is holding out his hand but they call out my name and laugh at me ♪ ♪ reminding me of all the times i tried before and failed, the waves they keep on telling me time and time again boy, you will never win, you will never win ♪ ♪ but the voice of truth tells me a different story, the voice of truth says do not be afraid ♪ ♪ on the v

adjust for people's cognitive disilities, from mental retardation on, to learning disabilities, dyslexiare going to miss a whole population of folks who cannot take advantage of it. and it's usually the last thing bought about. so when you mentioned universal design, i have a concept of universal design that's kind of universal in that everybody really needs to take advantage of that. i also find that fenders think about this last and within the federal government would do a lot of procurement and we don't pay attention to the law that said that procurement must be accessible according to the five oysters of the rehabilitation act. everything from r., u., including our online coursework. it easier to create it up front. and it's cheaper to create it up front than it is to retrofit it on the backend. particularly for coursework that uses a lot of the dealings, may link to an accessible websites, that are not 508 compliant, and translate materials from a lot of other virtual kind of networks. we have created a few online training mechanisms through research and grants that we have done at

in groups because there are people who complement whether it is a visual, perceptual problem work dyslexiaor something else. there are many things that need to be built into the system. it should be universal, university designed, it should be done up front, not retrofitted. but we are really challenge in not only getting this out to the work force development system, which we bug a lot, something i enjoy doing. also, really working with the colleges and universities to unrstand, make the connection between the content they are delivering through online training and to their audiences are. with that, i will put my plug in and thank you all and turn it back over to you. >> thank you for telling us about the challenges that citizens face especially in the online learning world. hopefully we will find some solutions in the future. our next panelist is from the work force alliance, a national coalition of community based organizations, community colleges, unions,usiness leaders and local officials advocating public policies that invest in the skills of american workers. mr. kermit kaleba is se

i went to the private sector and he was diagnosed with dyslexia, dyspraxia and add, which none of them recognized. i went back to the county and told them what they found, and they said we don't recognize those disabilities so we don't offer services. i had to end up sending him -- he goes to regular schools but also has to go in school but offers a reading method. they tell us that this is learning style -- he is doing beautifully. why don't we have magnet schools instead of just saying there is no learning disabled? my son is now in the eighth grade. he is doing wonderfully. i just put him in a private school because he needed a quiet atmosphere where he could focus. guest: the caller did a great job advocating 4%. unfortunately all too often that is what is required in order to secure the services that -- for kids to have these issues with learning disabilities, in terms of what they need. you have to have kind of a strong advocate to stand up and say, this is the issue, this is the need. i think the caller also identifies the need for our education system to get better at recognizi

adjust for people's cognitive disabilities from mental retardation on, to learning disabilities, to dyslexia we're going to miss a whole population of folks who cannot take advantage of it. and it's usually the last thing thought about. so when you mentioned universal design, i have a concept of use -- universial and everybody needs to take advantage of that. i find vendors think about this last and within the federal government we do a lot of procurement and we don't pay attention to the law that says that procurement must be accessible according to the 508 standards of the rehabilitation act. everything from our -- including our online course work. it's easier to create it up front andt's cheaper to create it up front than it is to retrofit it on the back end. particularly, again, for course work that uses a lot of video links may link to inaccessible websites that are not 508 compliant and translate materials from a lot of other virtual kind of networks. we have created a few online training mechanisms through research and grants that we've done at the office of disability and employment