The Winding Road to Contentment By Kimberly Horg | Photography by Meli Czerwiak A fifth-grade teacher noticed one of her students struggling with reading, falling farther behind his other classmates. Unbeknownst to Ted Balestreri II, who was blindly managing his dyslexia by memorizing stories, the dots suddenly became connected as he entered into a new school. The young boy attended the first class ever taught at Chartwell School in Seaside, one of eight students in the school designed for children with dyslexia. Veered away from traditional teaching models, he thrived pushing himself along the way to learn differently.
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