The Dyslexia Educational Network (DEN) is the world's first broadcasting company for dyslexia. DEN broadcasts worldwide at DyslexiaEd.com. Founder Robert Langston has dyslexia, is a parent of a dyslexic child and has authored of two books about his experiences with dyslexia in school and life.
Why its important you’re here. I know you’re probably seating there saying Rob you don’t have to tell me, I’m a parent I’m a teacher, I’m a grandparent… you know. I know why it’s important I’m here. I take care of kids. I make a difference in kids’ lives. And you do, but I got to tell ya, I didn’t know how important it was what you do until about – I guess it was almost 15 years ago now. About 15 years ago I got a phone call and the guy I was sharing the office with at the time, yelled into my office and he said ‘Rob you have Fulton County prison on the phone.’ I said ‘well tell them I’m not here.’ And he said, ‘no I think they want you to come down to the prison, right there in the middle of downtown Atlanta and do your program for kids. I was… I picked up the phone. I was like ‘this is Rob Langston.’ Sure enough they said ‘this is the Fulton County prison. We would like for you to come down here and speak.’ I said no. I work very hard to stay out of your prison. I am not coming down there. And they said, well Kroger food stores said you would.’ And at that time the Krogering for Kids program at the Kroger food stores was sponsoring me to the tune of a hundred programs a year in the school system. So now I’m thinking I can’t turn this down, right. So in order not to bite the hand that feeds me, I agree. I said okay I’ll do it. Let’s set a date. We set it, I write it on my calendar and I promptly forget it right. The day of the talk comes. I get in my car and I’m driving down to Fulton County prison. Now I hope none of y’all have an instance to even visit one of these institutions, but I’m telling you, I was about a mile from it and I was starting to be able to see it, cause it is ten stories tall. And I’ looking at this thing and I’m thinking ‘Rob what have you got yourself into?’ And as I get closer to it I realize the windows are not shrinking. All they have are little gun slats for windows to look out of. And I’m thinking ‘oh my gosh.’ And I pull into the parking lot, and I park my car. And the program I do for kids, I do a board breaking demonstration at the end. So it’s kind of a visual demonstration of breaking through their obstacles, right. And I want to give them that but I also thought this would be a good group to do this for as well right. So I pull up, I park my car, I pop my trunk – and back then I was just literally carrying around cinder blocks to rest the wood on – and I grabbed two cinder blocks out of the trunk of my car and grabbed two pieces of wood; and I walk in the front door of Fulton County prison and I said ‘I’m Rob Langston and I’m here to do my program.’ They said ‘fine.’ They scanned my entire body, right. They throw a badge around my neck so I can get back out. They take my drivers license from me to prove I am who I say I am. At this point every motivational bone in my body is shaking, cause I’m thinking Rob you’ve really done it now. And they start taking me through the prison. And I’m going through the prison and I’m here to tell you today that those doors and those prisons sound exactly like they do on television. They’re slamming shut. I’m jumping every single time. We walk through several of these doors. We walk into the set for this talk –now the backdrop for this talk is two tiers of cells. I can see everything these prisoners are going to have for the next five years of their life. Cause I’ve asked, who am I speaking to. They said you’ll be speaking to drug dealers, murderers, rapists, and thieves – worst of the worst; minimum sentence, five years. So now I’m thinking this is not a group I want to disappoint, right. So I go over in the corner and I start trying to get re-motivated and everything, and this booming voice goes, ‘bring in the prisoners.’ Right, and they bring them in, and they them at day tables in front of the… where I’m going to be speaking. The woman who invited me gets up there, does this wonderfully flowery introduction, right. I walk out, I spin around… nothing comes out of my mouth. Not because I’m a terrible speaker, but because I was looking at their faces. I literally stopped the program, turned to the lady who’d invited me and said, what are they doing here?’ She said ‘nobody told you?’ I said ‘told me what?’ She said ‘you’ve been brought to speak to juveniles that were tried as adults. The oldest person in the room is 17 years old.’ But now I’m going ‘why me?’ I speak on dyslexia and learning disabilities, you know. Why am I here? And she said, that’s exactly why you’re here. Cause you see at that time she was projecting that up to 80% of the penal system was learning disabled or illiterate. And we research today to show anywhere from 50-60% of the penal system is learning disabled or illiterate. So now I’m looking at this audience, it hits me, I realize it… they’re me – I’m them. I’m functionally illiterate today. I tested out with an 84 IQ in the second grade. They told my mom to teach me a trade. They said ‘he’s not going to make it in education, you might as well go ahead teach him a trade now because he won’t go on to high school or college or any higher education. And you know, so then that’s what my mom was looking at. You know, here I have a child that’s not going to make it in education. But you know what? My mom didn’t buy into that. My mom said that was one opinion from one person and she said my child is going to make it. And so sure enough, I graduated from high school functionally illiterate – meaning I couldn’t even read on a sixth grade reading level. And then I went to the University of West Georgia and I graduated from the University of West Georgia with written language skills – how well I could write – as low as a third grade level. So what am I telling you? I’m actually telling you it’s possible. It’s possible if you have the right partnership. And I’m also looking at these kids now in this penal system and I’m thinking ‘alright, what’s the difference?’ What’s the difference between them and me? Why am I out in society being a productive member of society, and giving back and helping, and why have stolen someone’s value – stolen someone’s life? And it comes down to one thing that I’ve already eluded to and that’s your partners – that’s your support system. And we know it only takes one charismatic adult to save a child’s life.
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The Dyslexia Educational Network Broadcasting at DyslexiaEd.com
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Take a behind the scenes tour of the Dyslexia Educational Network (DEN) Broadcasting at DyslexiaEd.com. Robert Langston founder, author and father of a fourth generation dyslexic child, takes us inside the members only section of DEN. Langston talks about why he established this first ever broadcasting company dedicated to dyslexia. He speaks plainly about his vision, commitment and content contribution to DEN's members while clicking through the sites special features, original content and future production schedule. DyslexiaEd.com was lunched as a high value / low cost broadcasting resource site to serve it's parents, teachers, administrate and dyslexic membership.
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The Dyslexia Educational Network (DEN) caught up with Dr. Guinevere Eden at Georgetown Universities Center For the Study of Learning. DEN's Founder, Robert Langston interviewed Dr. Eden about dyslexia and the brain imaging technology that has made a formally invisible diagnoses of dyslexia very visible and very real. Dr. Eden answers questions from DEN members and gives her advice for parents, teachers and individual struggling with dyslexia. "DEN members are lucky to have one of the foremost experts in the world on brian imaging and dyslexia answer their question" -Robert Langston, Founder, The Dyslexia Educational Network.
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Dyslexia topics, signs of dyslexia, early reading problems
The Dyslexia Educational Network (DEN) is the world's first broadcasting company for dyslexia. DEN broadcasts worldwide at DyslexiaEd.com. Founder Robert Langston has dyslexia, is a parent of a dyslexic child and has authored of two books about his experiences with dyslexia in school and life.
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