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The Dyslexic Advantage

Our school-wide Dyslexic Advantage program helps students understand and embrace the unique, inherent strengths associated with dyslexia, drawing from the research and frameworks in The Dyslexic Advantage.

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Understanding the MIND Strengths

Through guided reflection, hands-on activities, and real-world problem-solving, students explore their MIND strengths—material reasoning, interconnected reasoning, narrative reasoning, and dynamic reasoning. This course empowers learners to see dyslexia not as a limitation, but as a distinctive cognitive profile with inherent strengths, building confidence, self-advocacy skills, and a deep appreciation for the ways they naturally think and innovate.

Material Reasoning (M)

Material Reasoning is the ability to reason about the physical characteristics of objects and the material universe (largely 3D spatial reasoning).

People with high M-strengths may work in careers such as art and engineering, architecture, landscaping, filmmaking, aeronautics, surgery, mechanics, and industrial design. Students practice and develop M-strengths through our arts program, as well as NoticeAbility's TinkerCAD program, culminating in the Autumn Arts Festival.

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Interconnected Reasoning (I)

Interconnected Reasoning is the ability to spot connections or relationships (e.g., similarity, causality, or correlation), the ability to connect diverse perspectives or see things from other points of view (e.g., interdisciplinary thinking, empathy), the ability to unite bits of information into a single "big picture", or to spot the "forest in the trees" (e.g., gist and context).

High I-strengths careers include jobs like science, computer software design, museum curators, coaches and trainers, actors, dancers, and choreographers. Students practice and develop I-strengths through our arts program, entrepreneurship, and naturalist exploration.

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Narrative Reasoning (N)

Narrative Reasoning is the ability to construct a connected series of mental scenes from past personal experiences, to recall the past, understand the present, or create imaginary scenes.

High N-strengths careers include novelists, journalists, screenwriters, filmmakers, counselors, ministers, coaches, teachers, attorneys, marketers, and public relations professionals. Students practice and develop N-strengths in their language arts classes, as well as through our arts program, which includes our annual productions and the Wax Museum.

Dynamic Reasoning (D)

Dynamic Reasoning is the ability to recombine elements of the past to predict or simulate the future or reconstruct the unwitnessed past.

High D-strength careers include entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, finance, business consulting and strategists, logisticians, economists, farmers, and ranchers. Students practice and develop D-strengths through NoticeAbility's entrepreneurship course, which culminates in the annual Park School Entrepreneurship Fair.

Discover how we help students identify, develop, and celebrate their unique cognitive strengths.

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