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Dyslexia is a language-based learning difference that can interfere with a person’s ability to learn how to read, write, and pronounce words. Between 10 – 20 percent of the population has dyslexia which can be hereditary and tends to run in families. So, if you know someone in your family with dyslexia, chances are a close relative has dyslexia too.

However, regardless of the challenges dyslexia presents for individuals it is important to note that it does not impact a person’s intelligence.

Another interesting fact is the connection between dyslexia and entrepreneurship. Professor Julie Logan, at the Cass Business School in London, discovered from her research that 30% of entrepreneurs and business owners she surveyed self-identified as having dyslexia. Richard Branson is the most well-known business owner with dyslexia. Since the publication of her research more business owners and professionals have shared how having dyslexia can be difficult; however it is also a key factor for their professional success. 

In 2015, I wrote Dyslexia’s Competitive Edge a book for adults with dyslexia. The idea for the book occurred when someone told my son, who was in junior high, that his dream was too big. I wrote a book that I wish I had when I was a young adult working through college and then landing my first job after graduation. 

Since the book’s release, dyslexia awareness has increased with new organizations to assist students and adults with dyslexia. Also, new software applications are available that help mitigate challenges related to reading and writing such as Grammarly. Also TextHelp is designed to help employees with dyslexia. 

To learn more about dyslexia or to find information on how to help your child, the organizations listed below offer resources for parents, teachers and adults.

International Dyslexia Association

Dyslexia Advantage

Succeed with Dyslexia

Michigan Dyslexia Institute

University of Michigan

Decoding Dyslexia

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Tiffany Sunday

The Road to Somewhere Else marks a departure in Sunday’s writing. In the collection of short stories, poems, and essays, Tiffany Sunday challenges the recognitions and attitudes towards, expected and unexpected real and philosophical destinations. The collection continues the themes of longing, life regrets and search for authentic self from her book, Insatiable Consumption of Being. She explores the themes in a series fleeting and energetic depictions of real and figurative roads and pathways, that must be confronted; anticipated or unexpected.

In Sister and Brother, the nuance of the story unfolds, subtly delivering an unexpected ending and forced decision.Sunday contemplates the ability to test decisions by offering two different endings for French Garden, and the regret of settling and silencing the soul in Seagull Café.

Sunday’s quest for authentic artistic life, captured in her essays: Dear Mystic, In Search of Silence, and Cape Cod, reveals the intricate coexistence of which roads and decisions to choose within the confines of society while protecting the creative soul. She identifies societal roadblocks on the map to “somewhere else” and offers an alternative path. Within this abstract collection, Sunday’s brilliance is the ability to convey nuances and connect the subtle occurrences that are often unnoticed in modern society.

The Road to Somewhere Else is available from Itasca Books. 

Book Reviews

In The Road to Somewhere Else, Tiffany Sunday challenges our recognitions of, and attitudes towards, expected and unexpected destinations. In serial fleeting and energetic depictions of real and figurative roads and pathways, she confronts us with experiences of the destinations, both anticipated and not, to which they lead—all the while managing to capture the gossamer of their tenuous coexistence in the human mind. By doing so, she identifies roadblocks on the map to “somewhere else” and invites readers to do the same.

          – Philosophy Professor

Tiffany Sunday has been intrigued by the presence of Mystic, CT. Every denizen of our humble riverside village would recognize her description of the temporal permanence that stitches Mystic together over the centuries. Recommended.

          – Mystic Resident

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