symptoms of dyslexia are often impossible to detect. in schools, recognition of the disorder is slow in coming. >> translator: someone at the board of education told me that starting a shared diary with a pretty female teacher would draw my condition. a big misunderstanding. >> reporter: many teachers are like that. i think they find it difficult to believe that someone who can read even difficult books can't write. hoping to change perceptions, he and his mother took part in a workshop for dyslexics earlier this summer. it was the first time the event was held. five elementary school children and their parents took part. the objective is to harness technologies to help the children with their studies. the participants have their share of challenges, too. >> translator: my child has trouble adjusting to school, and tends to avoid it. >> translator: having my child do homework alone is quite exhausting for both of us. it's so hard to see my child who is so excited about learning now hates it so much. >> reporter: one by one,dr t >> what

they suffer from dyslexia. while they fall short with letters and numbers, many have creative talent. take artist, mckenzie thorpe. he travels the world tellinging people what it's like living wi dyex. >> at first glance, this painting may suggest lovnd hope. but it is actually expressing thpat i feeling to his family. love, for example, and intimacy. mckenzie thorpe of britain p ate flsnthi wh is made tigstimct it's disorrer th ethat makes learngo readpell and writ fficult. yet, visual and listening perception is normal and usually, so is intelligence. some see letters in distorted shape. often, they can't tell the difference between an "a" and a "d." thorpe didn't find out until he was an adult. his teachers had been harsh on him, thinking him too lazy to no t e bal couldot fol tentelendlessly because i couldn't be myself or feel myself in the outside world. >> he said the turning point came when he entered out college at the age of 21. >> they didn't accept me into art college. they'd already made their mind

dyslexia is a reading disability. they fall in problem solving.hat 35% of people are dislexic. richard branson, steven speilberg and jay leno all have dyslexia. >>> my conversation with these two men who have traced back our family tree more than 3 million years. what does that mean for medicine and what really makes us all human? almost tastes like one of jack's cereals. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. if you have painful, swollen joints, i've been in your shoes. one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymph

dyslexia is a difficulty in reading and arithmetic. that's represented in the left hesphe of the brain. the left hemisphere concerned with language, logic, orderly organization of ideas. the right hemisphere is thought to be concerned more with fantasy, with musicality, with emergency nation. and the founder of british neurology in the 19th century had an idea that the two hemispheres of the brain, althoughhey're symmetrical, are involved in different functions and we know's a fact. he thought they inhibited one another so that if you have compromise to the left hesphere as you do in dyslexia you can free up creative elements of the right hemisphere so one of the reasons people with dyslexia might be more creative-- this is just an idea-- is that they free up create poif ten shl that is latent in the right hemisphere. and there's independent evidence of no mall people, two young investigators taking different approaches have found that if you solve a problem with an insight, an ah-ha phenomenon, a eureka phenomeno a part of the right h

in this week's "human factor," sanjay introduces us to ben faust, who was diagnosed with dyslexia aseloped a technology that helps people just like him. >> a handheld device -- >> reporter: for ben foss, who has dyslexia, this device is something he doesn't leave home without. >> unsweetened cocoa. >> i could get semisweet or really sweet, and that could screw up the recipe. >> reporter: the intel reader. a device foss helped design turns written words into speech. once you actually use the technology, take the picture, allow it to process, at that point, if you're good at, you know, being able to listen at 250 words per minute, you can essentially catch right up to -- >> i can eliminate a lot of the challenges. so when most people are reading, they're hearing language. i don't. when i read text, it's like having a bad cell phone connection to the page. things drop out, i miss pieces of information. when i was a kid, my mom would read out loud to me, which wasn't a big deal. when i was in college, i would fax my term papers home and she would read them to me over the phone so i could

he is being recognized for his services to children with dyslexia.was diagnosed with dyslexia as an adult and has toured the u.k. for the past two years to try to help more people understand the condition. >> the fonz from have the days. and you have been watching newsday from the bbc. >> much more on our website. for now from london and singapore, bye-bye. ♪ >> makes sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. 

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in the sixth grade, i was diagnosed with dyslexia. i thought i could only be a construction worker. my grandfather taught me carpentry skills in middle school but one day while we built a fence together, he talked to me about college and inspired me to be more than a carpenter. when i joined college track, i slowly overcame my learning disability. i had one-on-one daily tutoring and high expectations from people like omar. i took school more seriously and pulled my g.p.a. from a 2.5 to a 3.5 by my senior year, around the time that omar came and joined us. my outlook changed and optioned opened up. i realized they loved the sciences and my wood shop instructor encouraged me to be an engineer. during my senior year, my great grandfather gave me the college talk. i remember him looking away from me when he started off by saying, i don't want you to be like the rest of the -- out there. i told him i wanted to be an engineer and a smile grew across his face. he said, that's all right, too. his encouragement meant so much to me but sadly during my freshman year at san francisco state univ

i have dyslexia. - ok. - do you know what that means? it means i see words differently than you do.a lot of people are dyslexic, chase. i have a good friend who is. - yeah, but... - it's nothing to be ashamed of and nothing you need to hide. - it is if i don't want people to laugh at me. - it doesn't matter what people think. that's what my friend says. just give yourself the time you need to read at your own speed. - but my speed is slow. - so? like my friend says, "walk through the words. don't gallop." we'll wait for you. what do you say? give it another try? - ok, one more try. - well, where is he? - he'll be here. - yeah, right. - sure. sarah: here he is. - let's get back to it! - you ready, chase? - ready as i'll ever be. - all right, then. bailey: ho! all: awesome! all right! nice! way to go! - he--he did it. - i know. zoey: they're treating him like he's some hero. - i know. - so, what will we do now? - he needs to be put in his place, is all. hey, nice work, chase... considering. - considering what? - oh, you know-- your little secret. - what are you talking about? - oh, ju

. >> reporter: as a young boy, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and adhd. >> i'm not trying to jab at theystem. today we are so much better equipped at dealing with learning disabilities. >> reporter: he managed to keep his illiteracy a secret from everyone. >> including my wife. she didn't even have any idea, until our son busted me. sitting with both my boys, shawn and adam, reading simple children's books, my son shawn would actually fix the words that i got wrong and say, no, dad. that's not what it says. >> reporter: then he had back surgery, making it impossible for him to return to his job. >> at the same time my wife saw the literacy library and they said, come in. it wasn't easy. >> reporter: not only did he learn to read and write, he's now the outreach coordinator for the library. >> i know when i do that and share my story, there's a child out there who's going through the exact same thing that i went through that says, you know what? if there z can do it, maybe i shouldn't give up on myself. [ kimberly ] when i was 19, i found myself alone with two children and no way to supp

did we have kids with dyslexia and autistic? sure. it's not that no one cares but it's natural selection and there were jobs for them built that was the difference. but i think the new capacity is to give direction to the government, to the educators and how we put into motion given the challenges of the modern class for all this bad news, for all this news there are still countervailing bits of data that give you hope just a couple of weeks ago the pew center said that driven by the surge of 24% of the hispanic enrollment, the number 18 to 24-year-olds attending college in the united states at an all-time high of 12.2 million in october, 2010 hispanic young adult enrollment in higher education grew by 349,000 in one year. the fact the kids know they need the education but it's also undramatic of the way just the sheer size of the population is going to drive the whole country's performance when it comes very quickly. >> there's talk about a lot of them today and to have fun with the question asked earlier about the importance of the

did we have kids with dyslexia? sure. did we have autistic kids? sure. did we car. no? out. there were jobs for them though. that is the difference. i think you in your capacity is you give direction to the government, to the educators, what you need and how we put that into motion given the challenges of the modern class room. >> but for all this bad news, but for all this bad news there are still countervailing bits of date that that give you hope. just a couple of weeks ago, the pew center said that driven by a single year surge of 24% in hispanic enrollment, the number of 18 to 24-year-olds attending college in the united states hit an all-time of 12.2 million in october 2010. his fannick young adult enrollment in higher education grew by 349,000 in one year. it is, emblematic of the fact that our kids know they need this education and emblematic of the way, just the sheer size of the population is going to drive the whole countries performance when it comes to these numbers. go ahead, quickly. >> now my comment is, there are so many statistics to keep track of. we

it rehab kids with dyslexia, autistic? sure, but they just dropped out. not that nobody cared, it was almost like natural selection. but there were jobs for them. that is the difference. we have to give direction to the government, educators, what you need, and how we put that into motion, given the challenges of a modern classroom. but for all of this bad news, there are still countervailing bits of data and then give you hope. >> just a couple weeks ago, the pew center said there was a surge of college enrollment. the number of those attending college and an all-time high of 12.2 million in october 2010. hispanic young adults enrolled in higher education grew by 349,000 in one year. it is emblematic of the fact that our kids know they need the education, but also emblematic of the sheer size of the population is going to drive the country's performance, when it comes to these numbers being done there are so many statistics to keep track of .. -- these numbers. >> there are so many statistics to keep track of. we could rattle statistics of all day. the s