{"id":1320,"date":"2022-04-02T03:42:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T03:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1320"},"modified":"2022-04-20T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T00:51:56","slug":"theartofdyslexia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1320","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Dyslexia Zoe Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignwide has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#c7ef00;color:#c7ef00\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-06a40c99 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:2px;padding-right:2px;padding-bottom:2px;padding-left:2px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-1-772x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-1-772x1024.jpg 772w, https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-1-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-1.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"vortex\">The Art of Dyslexia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"line-height:1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1789\">Zo\u00eb Armstrong<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-extra-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.5\">marker, paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel on 12\u201dx18\u201d paper&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This piece is comprised of more than 600 (12\u201dx18\u201d) drawings created during hundreds of art therapy sessions. I chose to share these drawings because I want to share how my brain works differently. I was diagnosed in 2019. This diagnosis brought with it a flood of emotions: anger, grief and loss over missed opportunities, but also relief at understanding how come I found so many things difficult and confusing. It also freed me to feel able, if not comfortable, to reach out and ask for the help, support and accommodations that I need.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large image is-style-twentytwentyone-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-2-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-2-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/59-The-Art-of-Dyslexia-2-224x300.jpg 224w, 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I chose to share these drawings because I want to share how my brain works differently. I was diagnosed in 2019. This diagnosis&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/?page_id=1320\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Art of Dyslexia Zoe Armstrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1294,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1320","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1320\/revisions\/2876"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connectionsnmhi.ualberta.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}