Girl Scout with dyslexia helps kids just like her
Mariana Gillen, a 14-year-old Girl Scout with dyslexia, builds reading kits to help kids just like her.
TAMPA, Fla. — Mariana Gillen knows what it's similar to consciousness different, to consciousness arsenic if she's speechmaking a antithetic schoolhouse book than different kids successful her class.
"It was hard erstwhile I was younger," said Mariana. "But dyslexia can't halt anyone. Dyslexia is simply a superpower."
The 14-year-old Tampa miss is teaming up with the United Way Suncoast and legendary restaurateur Richard Gonzmart to administer M.A.R.I Kits. That is, "Making Awesome Reading Improvement" kits.
This singular Girl Scout needed a task for her Silver Award. So she decided to look within, helping kids with dyslexia conscionable similar her.
Each M.A.R.I. Kit contains headphones to assistance students ore and focus, a connection tile game, a whiteboard, and more.
Gonzmart, who funded the project, besides has dyslexia. It is thing helium didn't afloat grasp until aboriginal successful life.
"At the property of 43, I realized that what I had considered a disablement wasn't," said Gonzmart.
The United Way Suncoast volition present administer the kits to country kids.
For much connected M.A.R.I. Kits, click here.
This communicative was primitively published by Sean Daly astatine WFTS.
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