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Reading as Therapy: A Bipolar Student's Journey

Join Shayla Miller in this insightful book as she explores the impact of reading on the intense mood swings experienced by a young bipolar student. Discover the transformative power of stories and words in navigating the challenges of bipolar disorder, offering a unique perspective on the role of reading in mental health. Through interviews, surveys, and observations, gain a deeper understanding of the student's struggles, triumphs, and the importance of tailored education for individuals with mental disorders.

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Reading as Therapy: A Bipolar Student's Journey

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  1. Read…Reassure…Repeat By Shayla Miller

  2. A Remedy of Reading: Breaking Through Bipolar Disorder How does reading impact the intense mood swings felt by one bipolar student?

  3. Why Her? Why This Topic? • Free therapy • Both book worms • My college experience • Our first encounter

  4. How Did We Get Here? • Fernbank Elementary • Emory/ CDC • Inclusion Classroom • Homeschooled Until Now • Midyear Entry into Class

  5. How Will We Get Answers? • Interview student • Reading Interest Survey • Interview parent • Journal entries • Observations

  6. Who Is She? • 10 years old, White female • Early puberty, tall and thin • Homeschooled/ Brilliant • Quiet, reserved, and mature • Massive amounts of family tension

  7. What Does Everyone Else Think? Students Teachers troubled scarred lonely angry mentally disturbed • weird • mean • scary • quiet • sad

  8. What is She Like? In-School Out-of-School depends on the day depends on the observer happy angry swimming and piano won’t eat or sleep childlike adolescent tendencies emotional • depends on the day • depends on the observer • helpful • withdrawn • loves reading and writing • unmotivated • playful • moody

  9. What She Says… • “I love reading. I disappear from here and go there and no one sees me but I’m there.” • “It calms me down. I get really mad and I don’t know why…and if people let me read then I’m fine.” • “I’ll read it but I really only like when things are stories. Everything should be a story.”

  10. I Finally Figured Her Out Before After more class participation USUALLY smiling completes work homework still an issue pride in work better penmanship more detailed • unfinished work • no motivation for school or work • unhappy and temperamental • sloppy • least amount of effort possible

  11. What Was Used? Materials Strategies choices, choices, choices adaptive scheduling comics, poems, and kids’ books collaborative learning directed reading literature searches • historical fiction • newspaper articles • blogs • journal entries • novel study packets • reading inventories • pretests

  12. What Did I Learn About Her? • interviews and inventories showed: • manages mood swings with reading • escapes peer judgment with reading • journal and observations showed: • heightened stress over peer assumptions • reading allows her to forget being different

  13. What Did I Learn About Teaching? • don’t judge a book by its cover • you can’t fix all problems, but you can help ease the stress • great need for teacher training in mental disorders

  14. What’s Next For Her? • individualized education plan • opportunities to co-teach • long, hard journey with medicines, treatments, and therapy

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