Hi I am Karen, and I have been asked to chat about myself, before P.A.L.S. and today. If it was still before PALS I would not be here, standing in front of you all. I learned very early in life to be invisible. I remember never feeling like I could excel and if people did …
Before I came to P.A.L.S. I winged it. I couldn’t read a lot of basic words and it was such a struggle. I didn’t understand what I was reading. I couldn’t pronounce a lot of words or understand what they meant so I slurred my speech. I knew that I sounded bad because people made …
We’ve all got dreams, We’ve all got hopes We’ve all got things we want to do I’m going to learn, I’m going to laugh And as I walk this road with you
My name is Alison and I am from Edmonton. I am going to share with you when I was younger and how improving my literacy has helped me. When I was a baby, I was sick as part of my brain had not grown. It was hard for me to learn to speak, read and …
Last year my nephew asked me to read a story to him and I was ashamed because it turned out that he could read the story better than I could. It was just one of those little books kids pick up, 10 pages or so. I couldn’t read all the words. I played a game—you …
