Sarah Maloney, Who Has Dyslexia, and Her Special Education Teacher
Sarah Maloney just graduated college. She's an inspiring filmmaker. She also has dyslexia. Watch as Sarah and her mother reunite with the third grade teacher, Eso Romero, who helped her find...
========== My memory of how, like,
my diagnosis happened is that I had copied off
someone else's paper, and I had copied
everything, like, upside down and backwards because
I had literally copied what I was looking at. My name is Sarah Maloney. I'm 23, and I just graduated
from Sarah Lawrence College. I couldn't read, and no one
was showing me the attention to, like, get me to the
point where I, you know, could even figure out what was going on until I ended up in Eso's class. The way I stumbled upon
her dyslexia, so to speak, is during writer's workshop. Sarah wrote tirelessly, and
I passed by and I noticed that I couldn't decipher
anything that she wrote. And I stopped in, and I said, "Oh, can you read the story to me?" And ...