Written by Mia DiMartino, Undergraduate student at SUNY Cortland
Editor’s Note: Senior Mia Dimartino is among SUNY Cortland’s finest students. She spent three years on the varsity Gymnastics team and, as chief of the SUNY Cortland Emergency Medical Services student organization, has often been among the first on the scene of medical emergencies on campus. Mia also has dyslexia and dyscalculia and has succeeded in a challenging pre-medical academic program. This is the first of a series of three blog posts in which Mia shares what she has learned about her own dyslexia and dyscalculia in her academic career.
You are GIFTED and learn differently than others. Use that to your advantage! Dyslexic people have 4 gifts. We call them the MIND gifts.
- Material Reasoning
- Interconnected Reasoning
- Narrative Reasoning
- Dynamic Reasoning
What does that mean? Learn more in this video about your MIND gifts.
- YOU ARE SMART! YOU CAN DO THIS!
- There may be challenges but there are always work-arounds.
- There are no limits to what you can accomplish.
- Work on developing your MIND gifts. Play to your strengths and don’t focus on what your weaknesses are.
- Understanding how your mind works helps you to learn better. Do some research.
- If you feel down on yourself remind yourself of your gifts that no one else can do!
- Not everyone will understand how you think and that’s ok!
Resources about dyslexia
- Dyslexia Help – Success Starts Here
- Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
- Dyslexic Advantage
- Read/Listen to the Dyslexic Advantage book on Bookshare.
- Visit the Dyslexic Advantage website and follow their social media.
- Docs with Disabilities Podcast
Every class is a different challenge. In future posts, Mia will share some tips on how to get through them the dyslexic way.