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  • [MUSIC AND CHEERING]

  • PAULINE: Morgan was diagnosed with her learning disability

  • at four years old.

  • So that was pre-k, kindergarten.

  • When she was diagnosed it was overwhelming.

  • So I started researching.

  • Everything that I found was just, she'll never ride a

  • bike, she'll never do this, she'll never do that.

  • It's just devastating.

  • CHERYL OAKES: Many of our special ed students have grown

  • up learning that they can't do it.

  • They've been enabled in some cases because we just haven't

  • had tools to allow them to be independent.

  • My job is to give them the skills and the tools to make

  • them independent learners.

  • PAULINE: Years ago if she had a research paper to do, they

  • would take them to the library.

  • She was left on her own to find books, which is too

  • overwhelming.

  • It's a needle in a haystack for her.

  • Just handwriting is difficult for her.

  • So if she can speak into something, it's

  • not a struggle anymore.

  • It's not a fight.

  • MORGAN: Women in the Revolutionary War.

  • CHERYL OAKES: Voice search just takes an inefficient

  • search and gets rid of that and goes right to the topic

  • that they're looking for.

  • Then they can put a reading level in and self-select what

  • they're able to read and understand.

  • They've saved time, they've found something that they can

  • read, and they've been successful.

  • They have to have that push to see the bright side of things.

  • PAULINE: She'll look and say, wow.

  • I did that.

  • So we don't hear "I can't" as much as we used to.

  • Color guard--

  • when she came home and said she wanted to go to a color

  • guard meeting, I immediately called up the coach and said,

  • we need to talk.

  • Because she has spatial issues and we're giving her a

  • six-foot pole.

  • But she does it.

  • She is an amazing girl.

  • She makes us proud every day.

  • CHERYL OAKES: All of those things have really helped

  • Morgan from being Morgan, the student with a learning

  • disability to Morgan, the student with the possibilities

  • for her future.

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