Name: Panel Discussion: Teens with Learning Differences
Uploaded: 2013-03-29T05:37:14.000Z
Duration: 1 h 38 s
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BRIAN THOMAS: Really grateful for Debbie for offering us

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this platform in some ways, but also just to have the

opportunity for kids to talk about themselves and about

And we were launched in someone's house, one of our

And it was basically in her kitchen and living room for a

And we've now moved to the San Francisco Friends School.

But it starts usually at the beginning of the school year.

And these kids have-- many of them have been coming over and

And just a little bit of a background from there, that

very first meeting, there were maybe about 15 kids in a room.

And Jonathan Mooney, who is a LD advocate extraordinaire,

went to Brown, has an incredible story of not just

overcoming, but using his strengths, and as someone who

probably reads at a third or fourth grade level right now.

But he turned to the kids, and said so what

And there was a little bit of a hubbub in the room.

And they said we want to speak on panels.

And at the end, he turned to the woman whose house it was,

Julie Tran, and myself, and said mm, I don't think that's

Not that he was doubtful, but it was a lot to bite off.

And these kids have over time and time again shown great

So I'm going to turn it over to-- we're going to start all

Tell us what grade you are in, what school you go to.

Tell us a little bit about when you were first diagnosed

And it actually wasn't really that revolutionary, I guess,

when I was diagnosed, because I didn't really understand

what learning differences were at the time.

And I didn't really understand until around ninth grade.

I am a junior at Gateway High School in San Francisco.

But what my mom has told me is that when I was first

diagnosed, I went around walking down the street

But other than that, I don't really remember.

I was diagnosed in third grade, but it wasn't really

that big a deal because learning disabilities were

I technically go to three schools right now.

I have four independent study classes, a class at Redwood

High School, and a class at College of Marin.

I have dyslexia and something called Scotopic Sensitivity

Syndrome, which is kind of a reading disability.

It's basically like-- you know the salt and pepper on a TV

And so on pages, it makes it a little hard to read.

I was identified in the end of sixth grade.

And prior to that, I really thought I was stupid, thought

I didn't know my math facts, couldn't spell.

And school was my least favorite thing in the world.

And so when I was identified, it was definitely a relief to

know the cause to all of my school struggles.

But it was also a little bit scary because I thought

dyslexia just meant oh, you're kind of not as good as

I'm a freshman year at Redwood High School, and I have ADHD

And when I was first diagnosed in the end of fourth grade,

beginning of fifth grade, it was kind of a relief because I

always had a lot of trouble with spelling and math facts.

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