The Journey of a Child Who Has Dyslexia

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"A Summary and Opinion Upon Watching Every Child is Special"


He stood up in the corner – sad. He sat down in the corner – alone. He was a loner with imaginative cognition; a creative with few exceptions; and a child who, in the present world, unordinary. He persevered in order to learn, but his perseverance has nothing help because of his specialty of having dyslexia – a serious illness that involves an impairment of reading words.


Ishaan Awashti was an 8 year old who tended to be alone while creating his own world by the aid of his own imaginative concept. He was a truant child—hated schooling. Consequently, it made him getting a very low academic performance. He failed because he is in a daydreaming while in class. He always got failing grade during his examination which made him to skip class and let his feet bring him whereever he want.

His life was never easy. His emotional plight does not only end at school. At home, his harsh and strict father, Nandkishore Awashti, was always scolding him because of his performance. His unrecognized dyslexia was very desperate at his age.

Yohaan, his brother, excels in academic performance and also in sports. While his brother possessed a superior talent in any field, Ishaan is differing from him. And this might be the cause why his father is frustrated since Ishaan cannot run through with what his brother have.


Maya, Ishaan’s mother, despite of losing patience in reprimanding his child never lose of giving her child’s daily needs. But this had ended after the decision that also squeezed my heart – when Ishaan left their home and sent to an exclusive school for children with special disability.


“The letters are dancing,” Ishaan said when his teacher told him to read the words that was written on the board. But instead of understanding his unrecognized condition, he was ridiculed. I ask myself if how many teachers in the world was like of Ishaan’s?

Having dyslexia was very pathetic instance, especially if it is like in Ishaan’s case that it was unrecognized. Your family hates you of how you behave, your academic performance is not good, you are mocked because of your specialty, you are never given much attention because your talents are covert by discriminationand nothing listens you.


Ishaan was sent at a special school because he always repeats in grade level. There, he undergone in special education services to correct his behavioral problem. Ishaan become much lonely, missing his family who left him. He was far from his family, making me to reflect that what if I am in his condition. Ishaan’s character depicted the real scenario that sometimes parents are losing responsibility in modifying their child’s special needs. “Family is a minute form of community,” tells us that our family should be the one who first help one of their members if there is a problem. But, I felt sad that Ishaan’s father, and even his mother, had never allowed their child to explain what pains was inside him, what obstructions is on him and why he cannot be a child what his father want to be.

In the school offering special education, Ishaan met Ran Shankar Nikumbh, his art teacher. Thanks to Mr. Nikumbh! The rail of Ishaan’s journey had been given answer after all. Nikumbh was able to understand him and taught him to be strong.

Nikumbh discovered the clandestine talent of Ishaan. He realized that Ishaan’s case must be given much attention to optimize his talents and skills. As I have remembered what Professor Penson had told us before, “there is nothing problem child, but the child might have just a problem”. This is a philosophy that the “Every Child is Special” proved. Furthermore, there is nothing time that a child will become a problem in class, but instead the child should be assisted to escape his problem if there is.

Nikumbh organized an art fair before the school year ended. He invited the parents and all of the students of the school to join the fair, nothing are exempted. Even Nikumbh joined the fair on which he won as runner-up in painting Ishaan’s portrait. Amazingly, Ishaan won in the art fair in which his entry depicts the alone child sitting in the river shore – he beat his father’s art entry.

This movie is an eye-opener in order to wake the viewers to always listen before they judge; to make them realize that God vested us a unique talent individually; and to make us to think, as a future educator, before concluding if our children are bastard. Impaired, normal, abnormal or disable, we are all equal in the face of God. He created us without mistakes and the vested knowledge that we have should allow us to discover what unique talent we have.


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