GUIDING QUESTIONS:

• What is dyslexia? What are some strengths somebody with dyslexia may have? 
• What are MIND Strengths? 

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Many people with dyslexia share a common set of strengths. You can remember these strengths by using the M-I-N-D acronym. You can remember these strengths by using the MIND acronym: Material Reasoning, Interconnected Reasoning, Narrative Reasoning, and Dynamic Reasoning.

MATERIAL REASONING

• The ability to understand the position, form, and movement of objects
• Example: While looking at only the blueprint of a house, you are able to walk through the fully built house in your mind.

INTERCONNECTED REASONING

• The ability to think about separate problems, ideas, and/or products, and recognize the potential in connecting and combining them.
• Example: You notice people who are unemployed but own a car, and other people who need a ride and have cell phones. You connect these two ideas to create a business where people use their cellphones to request rides from others.

NARRATIVE REASONING

• The ability to reason by using pieces of memory formed from past personal experience.
• Example: You are assigned the role in a school play of a character who experiences a loss. You then remember a time earlier in your own life when you lost a pet. You draw on the experience of that loss to help you play your character with convincing emotion.

DYNAMIC REASONING

• The ability to predict future events based on past trends and patterns 
• Example: Look up at a ravine running between two mountains and think how the ravine is a byproduct of erosion from centuries of streaming water. Next, predict what will happen to the ravine over the next millennium. Will it deepen? Will its structure crumble? You can guess the future based on the past. 

GO FURTHER: 

• Dyslexic Advantage - Mind Strengths of Dyslexia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuheIxZKGUc.