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They cannot read the bible, stories, tailored to accommodate and give
novels and history. This limits their equal chances to all learners. The
avenues personal development and government should act quickly
limits their ability to lead despite because more of this creative
having exceptional talents. brains are being condemned into
penitentiaries because we did not
Even when they have useful ideas, identify that their brains are wired
they cannot be able to share them to learn differently. Educators from
with a wider audience because all over the world should commit
they cannot be able to write them themselves to educating all the
down. This limits their ability to students and not a portion of them.
contribute to the society.
Phyllis Munyi is a director at Dyslexia
There are two things which the Organisation Kenya
society can do to support the
learners who have dyslexia. Creating
public awareness about dyslexia and
accommodating students who have
dyslexia in the education system.

Accommodation can be done by
ensuring that every student is
screened early enough for specific
learning difficulties including There are two
dyslexia, and if the students
is diagnosed, and a remedy is
introduced early, pupils with things which the
dyslexia can catch up.
society can do
Statistics indicate that as many as
twenty percent of the students may to support the
have dyslexia. Among this, only two
remaining unidentified end up in learners who
percent are identified. Most of the
penitentiaries. There are shocking
statistics which indicate that a very have dyslexia.
large number of prisoners are
dyslexic. Creating public

The current system
of education where awareness about
learners are ranked by
grade is inappropriate dyslexia and
for learners with
dyslexia. This is because, accommodating
in the current system,
stragglers are not accommodated.
Structured Literacy Programs, students who
what their peers are doing. which are absent in regular schools,
ensures that pupils learn at their have dyslexia in
Teenagers fall into drugs trying own pace and not according to the
to escape stress. It is now know expectation of their grade or age. the education
that more than half of all people
in Juvenile Correction facilities The problem of dyslexia is not only
have unidentified specific learning a problem of literacy. It is a problem system.
difficulty such as dyslexia. that affects the mental, social
and developmental well being of
People who cannot read are also unidentified learners.
disadvantaged because there is a
lot of useful information in print It is completely unfair to have a
which they cannot understand. system of education which is not

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