PSY 634 PSY634 PSY/634 Final Milestone Dyslexia.docx – Snhu

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PSY 634 PSY634 PSY/634 Final Milestone Dyslexia.docx – Snhu

Henry Winkler is most famously known for his role as The Fonz from happy Daysor his role as the Bluth family lawyer from arrested Development. Winkler even won an Emmy for his role as an acting coach, Gene Cousineau on the HBO comedy “Barry”.But, the one thing that Winkler is most proud of, and is least recognized for, is his best-selling children’s book series ere’s Hank. This series chronicles the adventures and struggles of a child named HankZipzer, who also happens to be dyslexic. Winkler is also dyslexic, so this series pulls from his own experiences. Henry Winkler was born to parents who were strict and stern and who believed in education. Growing up, Winkler’s parents thought he was lazy, stupid, and not living up to his potential because he was not a great student. Winkler spent most of his high school career grounded, unable to attend dances or games or be involved in plays because his grades were awful, and his parents made him sit at his desk studying. Winkler never intended on being a poor student, but his undiagnosed dyslexia made it impossible for him to excel in school (Yale,n.d.).

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He wanted to succeed and would hope to retain them, but when it came time to test, he wouldn’t remember them. Winkler completed high school and even completed a degree from Yale School of Drama in 1970. His goal was to become an actor, but he couldn’t remember his lines, so he found a way to cope and negotiate his way through his learning challenge. He learned to improvise and never read lines the way they were written (Yale, n.d.).Winkler learned to use humor when reading and improvising and sometimes it would work out and other times it didn’t. He eventually landed his most famous role as The Fonz’s unhappy Days, and even though it would take him days to read and review his lines, his hard work paid off. He would earn two Golden Globes for this role. It was not until Winkler was 31 that he discovered that he was dyslexic. His stepson, Jed, was struggling in school, doing the same things that Winkler was doing at his age. Winklerrealized that he was treating Jed the same way his parents had treated him and saying the same things that were said to him. That realization made Winkler and his wife get Jed tested and was then diagnosed with dyslexia. This was the moment that Winkler realized that this was what he had been struggling with and was relieved that there was a “name” to what he had. Once he discovered what he had, Winkler stated that the first emotion he felt was anger (Martin, 2019). Then he realized that if he didn’t have this challenge, then he wouldn’t have the tenacity, the drive, and the fight to get where he was in life.  

PSY 634 PSY634 PSY/634 Final Milestone Dyslexia.docx – Snhu

Description of DisorderDyslexia is a language-based learning disability. It is a neurobiological disorder, meaning that the issues occur inside the brain. According to Shaywitz & Shaywitz (2005), dyslexia is possibly the most common neurobehavioral disorder affecting children. According to Lyon et al.(2003), dyslexia is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. Dyslexia has some common misconceptions about its cause that include poverty, developmental delay, speech, or hearing/vision impairments (Quinn,2016). Another misconception is that a child will outgrow dyslexia if given enough time. There is no evidence that supports the statement. This disorder is often misunderstood as a term for reading problems, but it is not. According to the website, Dyslexia and the Brain: What Does Current Research Tell Us? (2013),

PSY 634 PSY634 PSY/634 Final Milestone Dyslexia.docx – Snhu

the word dyslexia is comprised of two parts: meaning not or difficult means words, reading, or language. Put these together and dyslexia literally means difficulty with words (Catts & Kahmi, 2005). An individual can read and write letters and words backward which is usually common in the early stages of learning to read and write, but this may or may not mean the child has a reading issue. A child with dyslexia will often show two difficulties when they are asked to read the text at their grade level. One difficulty they exhibit is that they will not be able to read as many of the words in a text by sight as an average reader (Hudson et al., 2013). This child will stumble, guess at, or attempt to “sound out” words. The second difficulty is that children will show problems with decoding, meaning that their attempts to identify words they don’t know will produce errors (Hudson et al., 2013). These problems with word recognition are due to an underlying deficit in the sound component of language, so it makes it difficult for readers to connect letters and sounds in order to decode.

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