Driven to Overcome Dyslexia

As a dyslexic herself, Hanna Taylor feels very strongly about the fact that dyslexics need more help both in and out of school. For her personal project therefore, she used her knowledge and experience to create tools to help younger dyslexics.

“My topic is about Dyslexia and learning about the Orton-Gillingham approach, what Dyslexia is, how dyslexics learn and what strategies tutors use,” she explains. “I created a learning tools kit called the ‘OGA Tools Kit’ that will help young dyslexics learn with the Orton-Gillingham Approach.”

Hanna hasn’t let anything hold her back and her ambition after leaving school is to become an architect and travel the world. Number one on her bucket list is: “Greece, because it’s gorgeous and amazing and somewhere I really want to go to because of the architecture, sunsets, food and more.”

Hanna’s project fits into the IB MYP global context of perspective through fairness and development, which encourages an inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.