Ashley Carr
November 17, 2007
When thinking about what topic I should choose that would correlate with literacy, I was puzzled. I had so many ideas going through my mind because there are so many topics to choose from that pertain to our field of Communication Disorders. At first I thought that I wanted to do my research on hearing impaired individuals, but for some reason I did not think that topic was exactly what I wanted to do. I thought about it for a few days and ended up changing my mind as well as my topic to dyslexia. I thought to myself, this topic would be very interesting because it is a population of people that I will have the opportunity to work with sometime in my career, and literacy is effected when one has this disorder. After reading some information on dyslexia, I found that literacy is the main problem in dyslexics. From this point, everything came together to create a well-written paper.
When looking at the final draft of my research on literacy in dyslexics, there are some people that assisted me in getting to my end product, and I would like to acknowledge them. I first would like to thank my professor Mrs. Karen McComas. She has been a great help with this paper since the beginning. I felt that this topic was the one I needed to stick with mainly because I liked the positive imput I received from Mrs. McComas in the beginning when she told me that she liked my new topic and that it was a good change from the previous topic that I had. She also was very helpful when I met with her in her office. She helped in changing my essential question and also helped in narrowing my five questions down to the two that would really be beneficial for my paper. In her office, I received much guidance and felt that the task ahead of me to write this paper might not be so bad after all. She made me very optimistic about the task ahead, and I owe a special thanks to her!
I would also love to thank the people from the dyslexia mailing list that I subscribed to. Their constant e-mails had some information in them that helped me understand how a dyslexic writes. Some e-mails had text that was written by a dyslexic, and it was very interesting to try to read.
Finally, I would like to thank my two peers, Megan Dotson and Kelli Summerfield, who reviewed my paper. Their thoughtful remarks helped in correcting my paper to make it better for the final draft. Also, I felt as if they took the time to truly help in making my paper better! Thanks girls! 
