DYSLEXIA
Revd Professor Keith Magee is passionate about providing humanitarian aid to children and families throughout the world. As a dyslexic, one of his most significant accomplishments is the co-creating of the Multicultural Initiative at Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity.
Magee was Scholar in Residence at Saint Joseph’s University, Faith-Justice Institute, Philadelphia, PA, where he helped to launch the Urban Teachers Residency Program which is a master's degree a focus on education as an issue of social justice. The UTR program is geared towards teaching reading, specifically, to urban students with dyslexia. Dr. Magee taught the core social justices curriculum for the program.
“I have not outgrown my dyslexia. I live with it every day, and I’m honored by it, because it keeps me humble.”
Magee also shares his experiences as a dyslexic with parents of dyslexic children.
“Believe in your child that, no matter what, they have the capacity to be whatever they want to become. Do not allow their disability to disable them, but allow it to strengthen them. Everyone has a winner inside of him or her; it just needs to be cultivated.”