Progress Update – Redefining Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a very common disability – it affects one in ten people – and thus it is easy to find information I can use when building this project. This information is useful for one goal of the campaign, which is to educate the audience about dyslexia in general, it is more difficult to find resources describing the negative stigma that accompanies the disability. The primary aim of this project (along with various other intents) is to reduce the pessimistic and incorrect impression of dyslexia. I do not doubt that resources exist depicting negative viewpoints of dyslexia, but there are so many places that aim to educate about the disability and inform its audience about ways to handle it, the more pessimistic information tends to get lost among this expansive amount of information. I will need to look deeper into various resources to find the negative opinions that shroud this disability to combat the bad perspective with the truth about dyslexia, which is nothing to be ashamed of and can even be considered a positive situation.
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I am having a similar problem when it comes to my research on autism. There are tons of websites dedicated to informing the public about the disorder and it can be hard to figure out what the average person actually thinks about autism. Websites dedicated to the issue definitely have a different viewpoint than the public. To overcome this issue, I have been trying to read personal stories because even though they are not the same as scientific research, they do give a good idea of what life is like for people with autism and of how the public generally views and treats autistic people.