 It's a small group, so guys, feel free to move up. We'll give you a call to see us in here. So, she gave me a brief introduction. I'll get a little bit more in depth about who I am and all that stuff. I want to welcome you all to work at Detroit. There's a lot of exciting talks going on right now, so I'm very thankful to you all and privilege that you guys came here to hang out with me. So, before we get started, I want to put a housekeeping, let you guys know about ways you can get social with us throughout the conference and then just be on the journey with us as we visit different talks and hang out because as you know, there's happy parties and everything like that. We can follow us on Twitter at WordCamp in Detroit and then the hashtag we'll be using is WCBDT. So, if you hear something that resonates with you, you can find me at Bear in the Arctic and my company is called Bear in the Arctic and it's R-T-P-L-A-D, I apologize. So, that's how you can be in touch with me and our hashtag for this official talk is one of the co-dips. So, we can move forward. I see tons of exclusive faces and I know our chat is going to have tons of perspective. So, I want to also feel free to take notes because after my talk, we'll do a 10-minute Q&A so you all can kind of pro me, engage my thinking and understand a little bit more of one of the slides or topics that I covered. All right. So, moving forward, there is an activity I would love for you guys to do with me so that we can demystify some of the perceptions about dyslexia. So, grab your phone, plug your laptops, and we'll get started with this activity. It is a talk to loop. And it's really just a truth or a myth about some of the things that people easily misconstruing when it comes to dyslexia. So, you want to click on it here and you need to go to loop.it and if you don't mind coming up here for just a second because I want to click on the link. Oh, so I can see it here but I can't see it here. Can you hear me using those words? Yeah, I'm not using that. Well, I'm not using those words. I just want to make sure that I can see what you guys are saying and talk a little bit about some of the things that are easily misunderstood or disregarded when it comes to dyslexia. Excellent. So, we're going to do the classic activity and let's see if we can start. I'm going to give you a call. Is everybody on the call? So, the call tomorrow evening will be 4-9-8-1-2-7-3. And just say got it when you are able to get started. So, I'm going to ask you to call Nandi against the e-money. I'll wait for a few more. Alright, I will see you guys. So, we have four people in. Do you like the music going yet? Okay. I don't mind. Okay. So, we have more than 2,000 people. I'm going to wait just another moment to make sure everyone has access to it. Nandi, Jane. Now, I'm going to sum them up. Four people. Eight. So, it's 5-9. One from here. One from here. Don't see any start. I think they're on the back. Yeah, they're on the back. Okay. Missing the box. So, we need to go out and play a game. Nobody wants them to play a game. So, Nandi, use your own support without a computer or an access to it. Either way. I'm not sure that's going to work. How do you mean that? I don't know. You just need to go to the group that I see. Oh, I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I see. I hear. I can see. I heard. I could hear. I hear. I hear things and I see all over. Okay. Great. All of you minutes. We also played a game. The Monkey King. Hey, Rats. Hey, I hear there's a clock. This game is just a kind of normal sub-almost icebreaker to see how much you already know about this last year. We'll talk indefinitely about some of the answers, so if you get something wrong, then be yourself about it. It's all in the game. It's all in the coin. So we have one person that will wait until he gets in and then we're going to start. If you just grab your phone and go to the loop.com. And you'll put the game in again when you get started. Guys, don't get pretty close to me here. I'll wait in the back. This reminds me of every corporate teleconference I've ever been in. The music? No, this is the first 15 minutes. Now how do I just get started? First, that's a dyslexia caused by a lack of early reading. That true or is that a false? So nine people say that it's a false, and a false is actually the correct answer. Two of you said it's a paddle in the back. It is not caused by a lack of early reading. It is a difference in the way that you perceive or decode letters and words essentially. So it's not because mom and dad didn't bring to you as a child or that you weren't able to participate in any of the reading activities as kindergarten. It's simply a difference in the way that you read and see wording. So it looks like Nicole is the quickest one. Where's Nicole at? She's the quickest one to spit out that answer. We're going to move forward. There is one test that can diagnose this idea. True or false? I didn't even get a click. It's the wrong one. It's the wrong one. That's it. The answer is false, actually. You know, more people got that right. This is wrong here. There is not one test that can diagnose this idea. There is a multitude of tests. This is about five. Achievement tests so that you can recognize an individual's IQ into a language test, a oral reading and writing test, as well as a social skills test. So it's a multitude of tests that go into an actual diagnosis for this place. It's not just one test. It would be nice if there was one test, but it would probably be an all-day testing session. I'm confused. On the last slide. Yes, on the last slide. The last question. The answer was... The answer was wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong. It was wrong. Four people got that answer right. Six people thought it was just one test, but there are various tests. This has been shown to be true. Yes, it was wrong. Yes, let's see. I'm dropping out of school. I'm just throwing up. I think so. Yes. I'm not serious about it. This is like the first scene in reverse. Is that true or is that false? I was going to say... That's right. This one is true and false. It's true and false sometimes. All children see letters of in-reverse or they swap letters. But within the second year of writing instruction, you can tell those who may need some remediation and further assistance. Because usually you catch a lot of children learning to play. And once they become accommodated to the rivers of school and they learn how to write a piano and learn their dance and things like that, they do reverse letters. That could be as deep or saw as it was. However, after two years of instruction, if they are still exhibiting those issues, then at that point they need to be tested for dyslexia. They don't typically reverse the entire word. Not the entire word because they're still learning words. Yeah. All right, dance with the game on a roll. That is its factor in two. Dyslexia. This is a tricky one. It's tricky so they're going to have, like, a scary reason. And that was so awkward too. All right. So we have six people that dance true. That dance true. However, it is false. So socioeconomic status, which is whether you come from a poor family has nothing to do with whether you will be diagnosed or whether you will be exhibit dyslexia. However, the dividing factor within that is still reminding you that usually welfare families are able to afford remediation for their children. They can afford to get private tutors and people who are skilled in teaching individuals how to read and how to write. However, those from poor socioeconomic families, they generally can walk through cracks. They can slip through the cracks a lot easier because they don't have that support. They're unable to afford the expense of buying or paying for private tutors. So that's a tricky question, but not quite. E-Money. All right. I'm going to screen here. So males are more likely to exhibit dyslexia than females. For that true or false, this is another good one. I was creating this quiz. I wanted to use some statements that really drove you all on to make you do a little more things. And so for you have this right, and it is false. So when it comes to males and females in the dyslexia spectrum, we call it males are more verbal, are more false, or issues that are more transparent. So that's how they are able to be identified quicker than females. We tend to spectrum well to separate sides. So we're unable to read and then we're struggling with the letters on our page jumping about, but we sit there quietly. So educators and people who are meant to assist us, they're not able to identify what she's struggling with here. So again, it affects both men and women at the same rate. However, men, you can see it a little bit more compared to behavioral issues, opposed to women. All right, we have a few more, I think two or three more, and we're all studying Monday after year. Reading more in pure dyslexia. Is this a true or false? Reading more in pure dyslexia. So the answer is false. And the reason it is false, it actually won't let me go back in here so I can see how many of you are right here or wrong. I see you still on the splinter screen out here. So reading more in pure dyslexia. If you do not understand how the decoding works with the letters and the sounds, reading more would only cause you more stress. So it's not going to magically help you overcome this particular ailment. You're going to keep reading and again suffering in silence. So it's not reading that can alleviate dyslexia. All right, a little bit more. Dyslexia runs in balance. It isn't here. Is that a true or false? It's here. Seven of you said true instead of you are correct. It is a neurobiological ailment. It's not considered a disease. It's really just a difference in the way that you read. If your parent either remembers that happens to have dyslexia, then it is likely that you have as well. But please be mindful of that. When your parents were growing up, dyslexia wasn't a thing. So they may not even know that they had it. It may mean that they didn't like to read or they didn't like school, things like that should have played a part. But if mom and dad or mom or dad had issues with reading or had dyslexia, then it's likely you would turn. Dyslexia is a neurobiological disorder. Therefore, a doctor, a medical doctor, a medical doctor doesn't diagnose dyslexia. Usually it is an educational specialist or someone who is privy to an ordinary feeling have instruction in how dyslexia works. So it's not something done at a hospital or clinic, so to speak. What is done generally is researched on dyslexic brain opposed to a lexic brain. So those are the only things that medical doctors really involve themselves in. It's more of a research. We have MRIs doing cerebral blood patterns and understanding the brain and how it relates to dyslexia. They won't be able to diagnose it because it really comes from an educational standpoint. AMG and dyslexia are commonly apparent together. So we have 50-50. So the answer to this is actually true because 60% of individuals who experience dyslexia also have the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So it is very common that you have one. This might be our last one. Only English speakers can be identified as dyslexia. All in several different countries, one of all different continents. It's not about a language. Dyslexia doesn't have a language barrier. So you can speak fluent German and also be dyslexic in German. However, the disconnect comes a lot of times when children are being educated in English at their second language. A lot of people may assume that they may have some struggles and they may have dyslexia because they're not grasping with the English language very well. All right, so the term will be on. Thank you all for playing that cool game with me. It looks like Patty is our winner. Whoo! Let's see. Nicole and then Veronica. So we're going to hop back out of this and jump back in to my slide. So at this time, I'll give you guys a little bit of a bit more about who I am and I'm going to talk about two minutes before our presentation. All right, so here I am. I know what you're saying. My mother is dead and dead and she thought it was cute that your daughter was living at this place. I'm going to stand there. She even interestingly said that she had another daughter she didn't even have a head. So I'm going to do a moose today. So I'm going to stand here today. I work within the Detroit Public School system and I'm a third grade teacher. So I was talking to my friend, Alison, over here about my introduction and how I'm going to introduce you all. I'm going to introduce you all to myself. I'm so used to working with eight and nine year olds and when I'm communicating with them, I'm introducing myself to them. If I say my first name, it's like, oh my gosh, she has a first name. And we were joking because we said, you know, if you see one of your students in a grocery store, they're like, oh my gosh, you mean food? So I talked to his office and really explained myself and who I am, to see about it without being embarrassed or ashamed because I eat food and have a first name. So I'm a mother. I have a five year old. I'm a six year old. He's definitely got a dress this morning. I'm thinking and I'll be impressed that he's coming to code at work now. And no, he's going to grab one as well. So he's precocious. Boy, and I've actually been teaching him how to code using code afterwards. So we shall see how that unravels. He's, you know, as a five year old he gets quite frustrated when he is unable to make the game work how it's supposed to work. But with coding, as you know, he's using word presses in his platform. It's all about patience. Patience is the key. So I think that's really all about me. I love thrift shopping. I have, I still own my college car. Her name is Copen. I love her so much. Copen and I have been all over. She's like over 200,000 miles at this point. But like, I'm definitely not going to hear about her. Like, it will fall or something. So that's just a little bit about me. I just died from a heart attack. So I'm going to show you guys the simulation really quickly about dyslexia. This picture you see up here is what a young man created so that he could understand how he could create a distinct way of identifying letters. Because again, dyslexia is very difficult for individuals to decode words. So let me see. Can I put this? Yes, I can. So this is a simulation. I'll make it larger so you guys can see it. But I'll be mindful that obviously dyslexia comes in different forms and this is not by the means in all tele. But I really thought this was all interesting. So I'm using GitHub pages to create what this dyslexia looks like. So as you see, they are aged. Everything kind of looks alike and sort of not... Would anyone volunteer to try to read the first line? A friend who has dyslexia described to me how she... interprets it. She can read, but it takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of concentration and thus letters seem to jump around. So this is... Well, some of our colleagues make experiences on a regular basis. However, this to me is an extreme form. This is not at all what I've pursued dyslexia is like, but it's very interesting to see. We certainly take it for granted because I would not have been able to read that very first passage. It's a little confusing to me. I know the upfront, but that was probably it. Moving on. They have created some really unique and unparalleled different fonts that exist. This one is from dyslexia. It's a company in the UK and what they use generally are some fonts that have heavy bottles and unique openings so that you won't get the terms confused and then you won't see that some of the letters are similar to other letters. I try to make it a little bigger because you may not be able to see it, but this is pretty awesome. The P has a larger bottom and the L, so you would never get those confused with any other letters. It's a couple different fonts that exist, but this one is very popular in the UK and I've actually used it before working with students and to my understanding, they were really able to see the letters and they didn't mirror one another because they were all very unique in a statement. All right, now I have our gang took so long to try to fly through the next couple slides. All righty. So this is a brand image of a lexic reader and a dyslexic reader. And as you will see there are obviously some differences and that's why it's a neurological or a neurobiological element because as you see the lexic drain has a lot of activity going on on the left hemisphere and if you look down at someone who has dyslexia and look at that gray paddle you don't see a whole lot of so the brand dominance theory is definitely evolving around dyslexia because at first they would say well maybe it's a hearing disorder or maybe it's something with eyesight but then we had some other doctors who did some research and they said wow there are some differences with the blood flow and the activity and the strength of those two hands here as you see. So let me see. I think I may have a whole lot of time so I'm going to move on to our next activity and I wanted to stress how important it is that you acknowledge that dyslexia is different across the board and so I would grasp some Rubik's cubes because these to me symbolize the difference that people experience with the different political spectrums of dyslexia. Now Rubik's cubes are 44 years old they have about 43 20 million you guys say that 20 million 23 20 million configurations that can impair and again this symbolize how puzzling dyslexia can be. I have a few extras from Goofridge here next to me and I want to throw them they're plastic in my hurt. There you go. Did you see that? There you go. Alright. So we got enough for everybody. So take a moment and try to figure out how to get it back to exactly where it was because we know we have six covers 21 pieces and 54 outer surfaces. So take a look. Are we done with Rubik's cubes? Not quite. Especially not this small. It's a little bit more cover so that it's a little like this. Dyslexia can be very puzzling and again this colorful spectrum that has around the Rubik's cube puzzle. Alright so when you guys have mastered that we'll move on. To our next slide before we go. So this bump the person next to you when you get a chance but it looks like everybody's pretty far from each other so we're going to bump each other right back but this symbolizes to me how technology in mankind can really partner with one another to create some really unique so when it comes to dyslexia and you are colder whether you are doing front end or back end it's very important that you have some different hats and some different ways to accommodate yourself when you are at work or when you're working from home you have to have a way to leverage to play with you. So we have audio readers some audio readers can be really helpful like Dragon Visit Dragon Speech obviously as you guys know how to read some of the word when you have a natural reader which is really cool and these are great for those who experience ADHD I just realized because having something to kind of fish it with while you're kind of meeting your mind right before your assignment or whatever you're doing at work is pretty awesome. So you also want to smooth into the next bullet Internet filters I know I have a very difficult time today on tags so Internet filters provide you with the opportunity to be unable to go to different websites. I mean sometimes I am creating code for something for work and next thing I know on Facebook how do I get there? I don't know but the Internet filters are so helpful because they can help black out the inner webs and everything that's happening. I've even talked to people by disconnect their Wi-Fi router while they're working on something specifically so that they can stay focused and engaged and then finally you want to be practicing your syntax all the time because with being dyslexic you just need the opportunity to practice, practice, practice so that when you come to the table with your counterparts who are typical developers where they may not experience problems like you, you want to be able to break a unique perspective to be on their level so that's why it's important to use coding that or code academy and those types of platforms to help you learn or better your syntactical skills because concepts can be tricky I have a friend with dyslexia who often sketches out this code before he goes to do it and some internet filters are going to be canine and verified just in case you guys are really interested in looking at ways to walk out what's going on on the internet let's see moving on I want to say join the ranks of those who have dyslexia so we have Octavia Spencer who played in figures and she was also in the health you guys remember the chin pod that was dyslexia we had 10 T-Ball he just retired from the NSL now he's playing baseball in the major leagues so he has dyslexia Will Smith, comedian, rapper and probably one of my favorite actors Jennifer Aniston, America's sweetheart of course Steve Jobs would be someone with a different ability in thinking and dyslexia is considered MIT's disease because the top engineers are pretty much architects usually possess this particular difference so that's it for me and now I have like one minute left we have to leave you ahead you guys this is so bad imagine if I did 10 minutes so feel free to ask the way I know I just covered a whole five to get into questions are starting to work so you say that you or do you what are some of the ways that you can help support them maybe they don't dyslexia or maybe they do and you want to help support them be better at managing around that what are some of the ways that you are doing that so neurodiverse is definitely a thing you have to imagine that no one is the same the way you learn is completely different for others so to support individuals who may live in or may not know if they have dyslexia I would say to use multi-sensory activities to provide pictures for instructions to make sure that the font is charged using different colors maybe using audio because when I think of multi-sensory I'm thinking of all five senses obviously you can't incorporate taste but you definitely want to cover your bases with touching and you can see differently so just incorporate different ways for them to learn or for them to show their skills two part question so what different types of dyslexia is there and dyslexia because stuff that's jumping around or the letters missing or if you have issues with numbers how does that all have to be affected another great question dyslexia is on a spectrum kind of like autism so there's five senses of beer and I'm going to do every kind of love dyslexia where you kind of maybe have it that way so as it relates to programmers who have been identified as having dyslexia I would certainly use different hats like I suggested as far as audio because maybe seeing it again just to jump around it would cause confusion and it's going to waste time and hear the instruction of what you're supposed to be doing maybe you need to spend extra time on all sides like coding a bag or coding an academy so that you can get your syntax in order I've been told that solitude is very effective having white drawings and all of us is finding what works for you I mean you'll have to go through trial and error but once you identify the way you work better you go for it I didn't like it I'm super mild my daughter is way up on that spectrum of the dyslexia but in far as I like my eyes are going everywhere and I don't know what time I'm playing and in the screen of a computer I can already cover I think people use code in a specific color because it sticks out a little bit better than the hack that you can use I wonder if I can say anything about the rest of the lights I said I've got blue tinted and red tinted and red tinted and that's how it's going to work for you you know what I don't know if you're all going to do this anymore because we're in the lights but I'm not home I just turned off the lights and then it's around to I shouldn't do this but it's kind of a running joke in the developer community like they turn the lights on but you know when I walked into my new job all the lights were off and I was like all of you know that's just their way of looking and in that the dyslexia is just a chastity there are no light switches at our work and one of the developers stood up on there and was like I'm not on school you know what exactly would work to motivate you I just love working it's okay I was on the small lawn in your lake and on the small lawn that appeals to the mind and dyslexics and all of that and I wouldn't be able to do that but also some of the people from community college the entire department does not use overhand fluorescence we use cyan lighting a combination of warm and sunlight and plants so we have a mix and a combination of sunlight cool light all around the room and since what is it called strobe light that's a strobe light in your research and knowledge deeply overlap between dyslexia and face blindness yes and actually in a different country they consider dyslexia to be related to face blindness unless they have raised something about your hand that's what they consider there it's not about the cold it's more about the eyesight and blinds not that far but here it could be either one of the two you don't do great research on auditory and maybe that's the way a lot of children as they're developing they're missing no sound maybe that's the reason but they individually I've seen some people get different tenet glasses and that tells them what they see to answer your questions any other questions sorry does that say any words or numbers? numbers is dysgraphia and that's difficulty with math and numbers so it's basically in the same I don't know it's under the same umbrella but you know individuals with dyslexia don't always have dysgraphia that's not going to be a grand suspicion with numbers is it both? what kind of war? well, yes, everything happens but have you actually gone? you're acting in various states so you were in school and you'd be correct someone's so nervous oh, how are you? yes we're the baddest we're the baddest we're the baddest sorry why do you think why do you think to my defense I appreciate that but what I'm going to say is different countries do things so much differently and they're looking to dyslexia and I'm here because there's a specific language disorder like in our schools so it's just really different everywhere any one question? actually, one more if you think that your child has dyslexia what are the steps? what are the steps? could you go to a school and say we need testing or just finding the accounting aid or what do you do? so you would need to talk to the teacher first to see if they know there's some differences in the way that they're reading or writing or their inability to and then add that what the teacher can request further evaluation what they'll need to come to the table and obviously your information what you've observed what the teacher has observed and the thorough testing will be in at that point there are different timelines so just kind of depend on the the rigor of that particular district and how quick they are to assess those things but you definitely want to talk to the teacher first so they can be all everybody can be aligned with their consent because if the teacher says well you're even fine for me I don't know then you obviously are very busy so you want to be you want to have observations and some evidence the documentation shows that I actually read the paragraph he was unable to read this or that ad word yeah I don't know I don't have one well let me call your teacher he even caught you don't worry I'll call them so yeah you never react to me and you know you have no work no we don't I agree sometimes so talking to the teacher would certainly help kind of bring everything to full circle well you guys have been a great crowd I hope I've answered some dying questions that you had I'll make this available to you all it's actually what I've been looking for so if you want to use a lot just hit the word you didn't ask us enough we'll be linked to all the speakers we'll do a blog post afterwards with links on the sites so you can just go through so that's it join the ranks of these cool people and all the engineers and architects and entrepreneurs that exist if you have there are some people doing some amazing things all over the world I just found out Jay Winter so he just said yeah do you have a good act to have? do you see what I mean? all the time I'm a good act to have a good act to have yes but when and also when you're talking about a good act I'll make some weird words I'm a good act I'm a good act all the ranks are almost bad to avoid I think Randy means this all the ranks are almost bad to avoid because it fixes it for you