Uncovering Dyslexia

                                                         Dyslexia, There's More To It Than Reading

The perils of being undereducated are real, and further compounded when an inner city student living in poverty has a learning disability.  On September 26, 2016 Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La, introduced  resolution (S.Res. 576) "calling on Congress, schools, and State and local educational agencies to recognize the significant educational implications of dyslexia that must be addressed and designating October 2016 as National Dyslexia Awareness Month."

Actor and activist Ameer Baraka joins Dr. T in the "BULLPEN" to discuss his journey and promote awareness for dyslexia.  Ameer Baraka, the New Orleans-born actor and activist who co-starred on Fox’s hit, American Horror Story, HBO’s Treme, and Oprah Winfrey’s BlackBoard Wars, embarks on a national campaign to change young people’s lives with his autobiographical, The Life I Chose.

Baraka uses the book as a teaching tool to show readers how he overcame having been incarcerated as a youth, diagnosed with dyslexia, raised in an impoverished single-parent household, inducted into a vicious street gang, and introduced to drug use by his own absentee father who would later spend decades behind bars. 

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