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Mollet Ndebele, Sunday News Reporter
A ZIMBABWEAN woman based in the United Kingdom, Ms Jennifer Lizz Ngulube yesterday launched her autobiography that captures her life growing in rural Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South Province.
From a humble village in Esibomvu, Ms Ngulube did not allow her background to limit her. Based on her life experiences, Ms Ngulube saw it fit to put her experiences in black and white as a way of empowering other people living with dyslexia.
Ms Ngulube described dyslexia as a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterised by having difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.
Addressing guests at her book launch in Bulawayo, Ms Ngulube said, “Growing up I had dyslexia and therefore I was segregated in class. I could not read properly and numbers gave me a scare therefore I couldn’t be an academic like my other siblings. After noticing this disability my mother sent me to a technical school where I did practical work like cookery and later, I became a special needs teacher at John Slaven where I taught children with a similar disorder like mine,” said Ms Ngulube.
She said her dream was to see people with dyslexia progress in life and not discriminated against in society.
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