Dislecksia: The Movie
Encyclopedia
Dislecksia: The Movie is a documentary film
. It was created by Captured Time Productions, LLC, a production company based in Litchfield
, Connecticut
. Dislecksia is the company's seventh film. It is directed by Emmy Award
-winning director Harvey Hubbell V, who is a dyslexic
himself.
The film features interviews with many prominent dyslexics, scientists and advocates, and examines the current scientific information coming out of Yale's Haskins Laboratories
and Georgetown University's
Center for the Study of Learning. It also explores schools that have been created specifically for children with dyslexia and other learning differences or disabilities
, such as Litchfield's Forman School
and New Jersey's Newgrange School. Hubbell has stated that he hopes the film will change laws and lives by improving common knowledge about dyslexia and changing its status in the United States.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
. It was created by Captured Time Productions, LLC, a production company based in Litchfield
Litchfield, Connecticut
Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, and is known as an affluent summer resort. The population was 8,316 at the 2000 census. The boroughs of Bantam and Litchfield are located within the town...
, Connecticut
Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...
. Dislecksia is the company's seventh film. It is directed by Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning director Harvey Hubbell V, who is a dyslexic
Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...
himself.
Plot
Dislecksia traces the many trials Hubbell faced growing up as a dyslexic in the 1960s and '70s, with discussions on his school performance and how he was handled by teachers. It also examines the root causes of dyslexia and seeks to explain how a dyslexic brain differs from a normal brain. It discusses the prominence of reading difficulties throughout the nation and features a discussion of how educators can hope to improve the current situation.The film features interviews with many prominent dyslexics, scientists and advocates, and examines the current scientific information coming out of Yale's Haskins Laboratories
Haskins Laboratories
Haskins Laboratories is an independent, international, multidisciplinary community of researchers conducting basic research on spoken and written language. Founded in 1935 and located in New Haven, Connecticut since 1970, Haskins Laboratories is a private, non-profit research institute with a...
and Georgetown University's
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
Center for the Study of Learning. It also explores schools that have been created specifically for children with dyslexia and other learning differences or disabilities
Learning disability
Learning disability is a classification including several disorders in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor or factors...
, such as Litchfield's Forman School
Forman School
The Forman School is a boarding and day school in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA offering a college preparatory program in grades 9 to 12.-History:...
and New Jersey's Newgrange School. Hubbell has stated that he hopes the film will change laws and lives by improving common knowledge about dyslexia and changing its status in the United States.
Early reception
Director/Producer Harvey Hubbell V and Editor/Producer Eric Gardner were invited to attend the 2008 Sundance Independent Producers Conference, where they met with numerous producers and distributors to discuss the future of the film.Notable interview subjects
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- Dyslexic and Chairman of Boies, Schiller and Flexner, LLP - Stephen J. CannellStephen J. CannellStephen Joseph Cannell was an American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor, and the founder of Stephen J. Cannell Productions.-Early life:...
- Emmy Award winning writer, producer, director, and actor - Barbara Corcoran- Founder, The Corcoran Group
- Guinevere Eden- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Center for the Study of Learning, Georgetown University
- Diana Hanbury King- Founder of the Kildonan School
- Rob Langston- Author, motivational speaker
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- Representative, 17th Congressional District of Florida - Kenneth Pugh, PhD- Senior Scientist at Haskins Lab; Research Scientist, Dept. of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
- Sylvia O. Richardson, MD- Former President of the International Dyslexia AssociationInternational Dyslexia AssociationThe International Dyslexia Association is a non-profit education and advocacy organization dedicated to issues surrounding dyslexia. It is based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA....
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PhD- Director of the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonThe University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866... - Gordon Sherman, PhD- Executive Director, New Grange School and Educational Outreach Center
- Thomas West- Dyslexic, Author of In The Mind's Eye and Director of the Center for the Study of Dyslexia & Talent, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study