Dyslexic Disabled High School Senior Seeks Grant To Open School

by Jamie Nichole Barnes
(West Lafayette, IN, USA)

My name is Jamie Barnes and I am a senior at Benton Central High School. This coming fall I will be attending Ball State with a major in Special Education and a double minor in sign language and entrepreneurship.

I am an American with severe dyslexia and a 3.7 G.P.A. I have a brother in college and two hard-working parents, who would love to support me, yet do not have the money to do so.

I have worked very hard to become in the top ten of my class with not being able to read past a second grade level. I know life is hard and there will be speed bumps, but if my disability has done anything it has made me stronger and more determined.

With those qualities I know that even when rest of the world says I cannot do something I know I can!

If I was to get a government grant I could help change the world, and make it into a place where a child does not think because they have a disability that they cannot do anything they set there mind to.

Throughout my life people have looked at my idea of opening my own school for children with autism and Down syndrome as a cute unrealistic dream.

I know I can do it and I will some way or another! I just ask for the government to award me this grant and help me show the world being different does not mean I cannot make a difference!