JOY KENDI REVEALS SHE HAS DYSLEXIA

Fashion blogger Joy Kendi has revealed she suffers from dyslexia, a learning disability which was discovered when she was in grade seven.

Kendi says after undergoing a special program her grades improved, “I have dyslexia, it’s a learning disability where a person has difficulty reading. Not because they are illiterate but the way their brain processes language and speech. I was diagnosed in grade 7 when I was about 11 or 12 years. It came about when the teachers started noticing I was struggling to read all subjects. They just wanted to make sure everything was up to par.

When we started the testing process, they were just testing IQ, they discovered it was fine that’s when they tested for dyslexia. I was not sure what was happening at the time until after, I think the reason they did that is because they didn’t want to make me nervous.

In the end, they discovered I have dyslexia. For me, I struggle with names, languages and capital letters. It was a long testing period; they would take me out of class every day for about three weeks for an hour and they would do different types of testing. From 7 grade onwards they had to put me in specific classes, trying to relearn how I interpret words and my grades changed, it improved.”