Source: Sherman Publications  Remove Images  Chapman overcomes
learning disability, wins scholarship  by Trevor Keiser  May 15,
2013  Actress Sigourney Weaver looks on as OHS senior Ross
Chapman gives a speech after recieving a $10,000 scholarship.
"Never give up, never, never, never give up" was the famous
quote by British Prime Minster Winston Churchill that helped
give determination to Oxford High School Senior Ross Chapman to
overcome his learning disability (LD).  After being held back in
kindergarten a second time, teachers couldn't understand why
Chapman wasn't reading very well and he couldn't understand how
his peers could read sentences with what he called "dancing
letters." The answer came in third grade when he found out he
had a learning disability called "dyslexia."  "I cried my eyes
out when he was diagnosed thinking what was going to happen,"
said his mother Nancy.  "From the moment I was diagnosed with my
disability my mom told me that my brain works differently and I
just need to find a way