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By CHERYL WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
More than 1,500 city/county
students will be part of a $3
million study on dyslexia that will
be conducted by the Bowman
Gray School of Medicine.
The Bowman Gray School of
Medicine has received a five-year
grant from the National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development to do the study.
Bowman Gray will work in collaboration
with the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro,
which has received a $750,000
five-year grant from the National
Institute of Neurological and
Communicative Disorders.
"I'm very pleased that this
research project will take place in
our community." Suoerintendent
Zane E. Eargle said at Monday
night's school board meeting,
which some of the researchers attended
to discuss the project.
"The potential of this research
is almost unlimited in terms of
the benefits not only to our
school system but to others as
well," he said. "The program is
the only one of its kind funded.
The exciting thing for us in
education is what we hope to
learn aBout learning disabilities."
Bowman Gray competed with
clinical and research centers na
tionwide for the grant.
Dyslexia is a problem that affects
a person's ability to read but
is not due to an emotional
disorder or an impairment of intelligence,
said Dr. Frank Wood,
neuropsychologist at Bowman
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crowding into its parking*lot each
night, is finding some relief with
a city ordinance and the weather.
Wilbert T. Jenkins, the shopping
center's manager, said that
the Board of Aldermen passed an
ordinance in July that will allow
him to post signs prohibiting
parking in the center's lot after
business hours.
He said he has not posted any
signs yet but that he intends to.
'The signs are being made up
now," he said.
The signs will prohibit parking
in the center's lot from 10 p.m.
until 7 a.m., Jenkins said.
The ordinance gives the police
more enforcement power, he added.
"It (the ordinance) is having
the effect of being able to at least
get a working situation with the
police," Jenkins said. "All we
have to do now is call the police
department, and they are coming
out and clearing the lot."
The problem of young people
gathering in the lot hasn't been
eliminated altogether by the ordinance,
Jenkins said. "But at
least there has been some relief."
Jenkins said that the weather is
also lessening the problem. As
the weather gets cooler, he said, it
becomes less desirable to the
young people to come to the
~~parking lot. ~
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story. It is a fantastic women's story
inspiration. It seems incredible that i
written it, and I'm about to do it."
Later, in his lecture to the sold-o
dience, Haley related the events that
success story.
The oldest of three sons, Haley
was "not a good student and did
school."
"My father decided I needed to '
searched the military services, and
called the Coast Guard which ha
enlistment. He thought that was all t
ed to mature," Haley said, laughing
"While I was at sea, I wrote letters t
I had known in school and extolled I
ed the service, not so much beca
writing but so they would tell my :
ship it had the result of earning me th
being the most prolific writer on the
Haley eventually earned a dollar i
love notes, which his shipmates
girlfriends, a venture he said "gave n
there might be something for me ii
all."
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day, September 18, 1986
be part of dyi
Gray and director of the research
project.
The purpose of the project is to
gain a better understanding of
dyslexia through working with
students and adults who have the
problem.
According to information
about the project, three of the
things the researchers hope to
achieve are: to come up with an
effective definition of dyslexia
which distinguishes it from other
learning disabilities such as attention
deficit disorder, to find out
the impact of different teaching
"I'm very pleased that this
research project will take
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methods on different learning
disabilities, and to study the role
of dyslexia in an adult*s life.
C. Douglas Carter, assistant
superintendent for support services,
said Tuesday that although
he didn't have specific figures on i
the number nf students with
dyslexia, the total number of ]
students in the school system with
learning disabilities is 1,200 ]
students. Approximately 351 of <
these students are black. 1
But dyslexia, Wood said Tuesday,
affects blacks as equally as?h
whites. 'There are no race differences
or economic i
differences," Wood said. . I
Wood said, however, that i
there is a sex difference with i
dyslexia, whi<;h is estimated to af- <
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Upshaw's successor c
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No successor has been found J
yet to replace a city employee
who resigned from his job after t
he was arrested and charged with c
taking money from the purse of t
his secretary. t
Pat W. Swann, assistant city
monan?r ? ?* J
iiiuiugwi iui i^uuiiw worRSj saiQ
that applicants are now being interviewed
for the position which
was held by Larry V. Upshaw. 11
Swann said it may be about
three weeks before an offer is f
made. ^
Upshaw, 34, pleaded guilty in c
District Court in July to misde- it
meanor larceny in the theft of $9
from the purse of Mary Ruth
Vogt. 1
He received a 30-day suspend- f
ed sentence and was placed on
probation for two years.
Alderman Larry W. Womble r
has said he would prefer a black r
person to replace Upshaw, who is ^
black. - *
Lawsuit's still on
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The local NAACP still plans to ?
file a lawsuit against Forsyth f
County challenging its at-large v
method of electing county com- s
missioners, NAACP President C
Walter Marshall said Monday. t
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feet about 5 percent of the
population, 80 percent of whom
are males.
The research project will use a
total of 1,650 students. Participation
in the project will be voluntary,
and parental consent must
be given.
Three groups of students will
be used for the identification and
follow-up of children with
reading disabilities. The groups
are 600 kindergarten children,
600 first-graders and 450 thirdgraders.
Each group of students will be
tested and also retested in followup
studies.
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Wood said.
Another component of the
research project will use adults
who were diagnosed 20 years ago
as having dyslexia.
Board member Thomas C. I
Voss told other board members
Monday that he sees the project
as having a great impact. He suggested
that the board's curriculum
committee should meet
to discuss the mechanics of the
project.
Board member Gerald' N.
Hewitt asked the researchers present
at the meeting what they intend
to do with what they find.
"What's the next step?" he askid.
Wood said he could not predict
the outcome of the research but
that the research could mean a
payoff in earlier identification of
earning disabilities and improvxl
teaching methods.
iiscriminate against blacks,"
Marshall told the Chronicle in
(uly.
The NAACP's decision to file
he lawsuit came after the defeat
>f Mazie S. Woodruff, the only
>lack county commissioner, in
he May 6 Democratic primary.
Marshall said that everything
hould be ready in order to file
he suit; it's just a matter of filing
i. '
"We had all the information as
ar back as two weeks ago/'
4arshall said. "It's just a matter
if him (attorney) getting to file
t."
Lumberton attorney Angus
*hompson is handling the case
or the NAACP.
Marshall said that there is no
eal push to file the suit imnediately
since the NAACP
von't be trying to block the
November elections. . ?
The Chronicle welcomes sug
jestions and update ideas
rom the readers. If you ever
vonder what happened after a
itory was printed, give us a
all and we'll find out. The
elephone number is
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le manifestation of these prayers
he call now is to set about, with
1 than ever before, the business
etter for our children."
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