Mentorship Programs for Kids With Dyslexia, ADHD
Many kids with learning and attention issues, like dyslexia or ADHD, feel isolated or misunderstood. By finding and connecting to people who share their struggles – but are a little bit further...
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Mentorship is crucial for anyone's success, but for students with learning differences or ADHD the tendency is just to feel alone. And so to have a mentor who can say "I've been there," like, "I get what you're going through. I was in eighth grade not finishing my history test." That's so powerful. Awesome, Oscar. The kids, they come in here whispering about their learning differences. Like, the first day there's always a game where we say, "Who has ADHD?" and like nobody will raise their hand. And then by day five, the last day, they just leave like so proud of how they learn. Camp Eye to Eye is a condensed version of the entire yearlong Eye to Eye mentoring program, where we do every art project, and ...
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Mentorship is crucial for anyone's success, but for students with learning differences or ADHD the tendency is just to feel alone. And so to have a mentor who can say "I've been there," like, "I get what you're going through. I was in eighth grade not finishing my history test." That's so powerful. Awesome, Oscar. The kids, they come in here whispering about their learning differences. Like, the first day there's always a game where we say, "Who has ADHD?" and like nobody will raise their hand. And then by day five, the last day, they just leave like so proud of how they learn. Camp Eye to Eye is a condensed version of the entire yearlong Eye to Eye mentoring program, where we do every art project, and ...
