Excellent course, I was captivated from start to finish. One weak point, however, presented in week 5, 12a-b. It's stated that language classes should be avoided for dyslexic students but lacks evidence of this reasoning (I deduced that because the course would be difficult, the student would be discouraged). However, many bi and multilingual people have dyslexia and are excellent communicators in their spoken languages. It might be better to phrase this portion as something like: "American language classes focus so heavily on syntax and translation, that the overwhelmingly beneficial elements of foreign language learning, including increased synapses in the brain, a delay in cognitive decline, increases in memory, increased capacity for creative thinking, and increased phonemic awareness, are not often reaped in a typical middle to high school American foreign language course." Likewise, if dyslexia presents equally in all the population, a statement that encourages avoiding foreign language courses may imply a blindspot in the student population, as increasing numbers of children grow up in multilingual settings in the US. I would prefer that the course addresses foreign language classes as a fault of the course design, rather than single out an invaluable and beneficial subject, without a presentation of evidence, as something that "should be substituted with a class on culture or history." This is the only part of the course that I felt was inadequate and misrepresented. Otherwise, I loved the resources and pacing.

An excellent course that is a must for any individual with dyslexia but also any parent of a dyslexic or potentially dyslexic child. It is essential viewing for any educator in the United States today, as so many problems with meeting the needs of students with dyslexia are stymied by educators (teachers, principals, board of education members, superintendents, curriculum specialists, reading and writing interventionists, counselors, school psychologists) who lack training, who have been mistrained, or who have out-of-date training, or who otherwise hold unscientific and false ideas about dyslexia. The only major shortcoming in the course is that it does not give any advice for dealing with K-12 school districts that refuse to identify or serve students with dyslexia, a common problem.

This covered EXACTLY the type of information I was looking for. Namely, why and how someone can be so intelligent, achieve high grades in school, yet be diagnosed with dyslexia. This was so enlightening and will help me to communicate and advocate for people who need accommodations to level the ground, and improve their mental health. Thank you Dr Shaywitz. Thank you for all the work you've done in the field, and for making the information accessible to those who need it.

This is solid introductory course, but it does contain some inaccurate information (ie, there is SUBSTANTIAL evidence of differential rates of prevalence in dyslexia between boys and girls). Also, with respect to the comorbidity between ADHD and dyslexia, the numbers were somewhat misleading. It is indeed the case that a large proportion of individuals with ADHD also have dyslexia, but the proportion of individuals with dyslexia who also have ADHD is smaller.

Great information, have read overcoming year's ago, has help with my understanding dyslexia to help my students. However, it would be nice to have a representation of people of color. It was disappointing, It gives the impression that no one of color with dyslexia has impacted the world. As the importance of advocacy for dyslexia has been highlighted through out this course, it's sad that diverse representation has been overlooked.

Wonderful information! My only disappointment is that I come away from the course knowing screening and diagnosis SHOULD be happening in school, but still unsure of how to encourage this at the school level. Schools seem very hesitant to screen and diagnose because I guess if they do they the. Would be required to provide interventions, which is additional cost to the school. I came away knowing we should

Good basic course for people starting out in learning about Dyslexia. The course covers all the beginning questions and their supporting information. I wish Coursera covered more in depth topics around Dyslexia- if only to support clients who are trying to use this platform to further their education. One course on Dyslexia is not enough.

I thought the course was informative and the instructor was really knowledgeable. However, I felt that the lack of representation/ experiences of people of color with dyslexia was very apparent. I think it would be more meaningful and relevant to the learning if this glaring oversight was corrected.

It was very informative and helpful, thank you so much for that. Some parts made me emotional because of the self mitigating solutions I had to find while being seen as not clever or not focused. I wish I could have my name printed on the certificate I was awarded.

Certainly there's no need (a total waste of participant-listener's time) to keep hearin the speaker making reference to her book/screening tool and her own achievements especially it made known from the outset of the course that it is based on her book.

I think this was a well-done course. The only issue I have is it sounded like an infomercial. The course should not make you feel that the one and only quality source of information is from the speaker of the course.

Excellent content and clearly presented. It's very geared toward the U.S., so if you live in another country, just know that not all of the information will be applicable to you.

The first half of the course was fantastic. For a non-American citizen the law unit was not particularly relevant. Overall, I highly recommend the course. I learnt a lot.

Very interesting course as it brings hope in the life of the dyslexics people, thank you.

I enjoyed the course but wished there was less talking and more visuals.

Thank you

lots of helpful information but too many references to the lecturer's book

Great information. Heavy focus on private school versus public schools.

Excellent information, broken into manageable chunks.

Amazing and informative!

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Contextually relevant to the USA and not as relevant to my line of practise in New Zealand but great insight into the developmental aspects (brain imaging etc.).

Thank you for the course, full of knowledge and information, I was hopping to find more specific strategies to help my students.

Though this course has good information, As a Title Reading Teacher, I already knew most of the information. I believe this course could be done in more than half the time. The course is also long and laboring and so slow. The speaker knows her material and is smart but very slow in speaking and hard to stay focused on.