September and October are my favorite months of the year. The intense summer heat is gone and the air is nice and crisp in the mornings. Everyday when I go to work, I drive through the University of British Columbia and see all those young and eager smiling faces. It sure brings back memories of my UBC days as an eager undergrad there.

I spent a great deal of time in the library when I was studying Art history at UBC for my B.A. degree. Reading was and is still one of my favorite past times. It is hard to imagine what life would be like without books and reading. Yet, as one who specializes in dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities, I am very much aware that there are some students who cannot read and each day in school is like torture to them.

Young children with reading difficulties are known to have tummy aches and all kinds of “ailments” when confronted by reading tasks. I can sympathize with these children because I also have similar problems when feeling overly stressed. For children who cannot read, much of their frustration comes from the fact that they are unable to articulate their reading problem to adults. Frankly speaking, many adults don’t even know what dyslexia is!

In my next blog, I will share an interesting case that I had encountered just before school was out for the summer. Let me just call it “The Story of a Maxed-Out Kid with a Gung-Ho Mom.”

Until next time…

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