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Hello, welcome to Newsround. I'm Ore and we are talking about | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
something that affects around one in 10 of us, dyslexia. It can make | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
it difficult to read or recognise words, letters and other symbols, | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
and it can make life hard, especially if you do not get help. | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
Just like it was for this guy, Dom Wood, AKA Dom from Dick and Dom. He | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
has told Newsround that growing up with dyslexia was tough, especially | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
as he was not diagnosed until he was 15. At 5 o'clock today, we have | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
got a special programme called My Dyslexic Mind, which you can see | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
here on CBBC. It is presented by Ben who is 12 and dyslexic. For the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
programme he got to chat to Dom who told him all about his experiences | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
with dyslexia. Until I was 15 I just thought I was thick. I could | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
not understand why it because I tried so hard. At school, it was | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
all about if you were academic. But there are thousands of jobs out | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
there which do not require academia. It is not a disadvantage being | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
dyslexic. In some ways it is a positive thing. If it was not for | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
being dyslexic, I would not be where I am today. Fantastic to hear | :01:19. | :01:25. | |
from him. Someone else who knows exactly what | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
they are going through is 11 year- old Lauren, who is also dyslexic. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
How did you find out you were dyslexic? I did not know much about | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
it then but I was taken out of the class. What makes it hard for you | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
at school? You need your teachers to help you, don't you? Probably | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
sitting in class. When I stop, people do not see me. And what | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
about your friends? Did they treat you differently? Yes, when I say | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
things wrong they correctly. It puts me down every time. Because | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
they are telling me what to say and what to do basically. How does that | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
make you feel? It makes me upset because I say, I know what I am | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
doing, I can speak. If I do not need you to speak for me. Are we | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
heard from Dom from Dick and Dom and he said he would not be the | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
same person without dyslexia. Have you learned to embrace it? The yes, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
because with dyslexia you always have something else you are better | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
at. I really like football and I would not be good at football if I | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
did not have dyslexia. We have a star in the making. And England | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
star of the future. Thank you. Well, lots of you telling us online | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
how dyslexia affects you. Masum in London says I have dyslexia and it | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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The question is, what can you do if you think you have got dyslexia? I | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
am joined by a Dr Anna Pitt. We will see you in the special | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
programme at 5 o'clock as well. What is the difference between a | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
dyslexic mind and another mind? The science park, if you like. We found | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
a lot of neurological differences which are happening inside the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
brain of dyslexics and how they function differently. The reading | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
problems and things, the reading and spelling problems, they tend to | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
be the symptoms of what is being caused inside. We are looking at | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
things like how they understand sounds or how they can use their | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
eyes. So it means they are not stupid, they are just different. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
For those people who are worried, what can they do? The first thing, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
talk to their parents and teachers. Find a teacher you trust because | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
that makes a big difference. And understand that it means it will | :04:47. | :04:52. |