I have dyslexia.... i can treally get through college it hard for me...im 23..do adiuts with dyslexia have?

Question

the same problems with it... then when they were kids?? i really dont know much about this?? i write poetry and leave out some words.....and at the last school i went to they wrote down that im milidly mentally retarded. i was dignosted when i was 10... do any adiuts here have the same problm?

Answer 1

My son is learning disabled in reading, writing, and math. School has always been a challenge. He is a senior in college. It has not been easy. It has taken him six years because he takes only 12 hours per semester.

He must take 12 hours to qualify as a full-time student in order to remain on my insurance.

When a learning disabled person reads for an hour, it is as physically exhausting as a five-mile hike.

Yes, adults have the same problems, but usually they have developed strategies that work for them to make things go more smoothly.

Answer 2

you need to ask for help.... i went thro school thinking i was thick and careless coz thats what everyone told me... i gave up and went off the rails and messed up my life big time. anyway years after leaving school and having kids i went back to my education and studied to be what i always wanted, a chef. i was diagnosed and got l;oads of help, inc tutors and specialist softwear. it reaalyy hellpped and i achievd my goals. yopu have to DEMAND help and anything is possible. there is computer software called DRAGON or something and READBACK which reads back to you so if you missed stuff out your more likely to spot it. you may need to be assesd again to see what will help you but dont loose faith in your self

Answer 3

My best friend is dyslexic. He's quite successful and owns his own business. He had a very rough time in school. It took him 6 years to get through college but he stuck it out. Hang in there.

Answer 4

Do not listen to really good. She obviously knows nothing about Learning disabilities or dyslexia.

Answer 5

When I was 37 I had some aptitude testing done because I was so unhappy in my job  as a nurse. One test showed I was in the bottom 3% in clerical speed. I can't write fast. I learned that this was why I was a C student inspite of having a high IQ. The tester told me there was no way I could have done well in school (with such a low score in clerical speed )because school work is paperwork. There's alot of paperwork in nursing too. The tester told me that no matter what I decided to do in the future I should definitely pay someone else to do the paperwork or I would get so bogged down in it that I would never have the time and energy to do the things I was good at. I recommend everyone get APTITUDE testing. Google Johnson O'Conner Research Foundation. There's no reason life should be torture.

Answer 6

No, I don't have that problem.  You may wish to have an evaluation done.  If you have problems reading and or writing, then they are supposed to give you accommodations in college.  Take your paperwork with you to the college.  Don't give up!

Answer 7

Are you sure you just have dyslexia?  From your writing I would say that you had dysgraphia!

Dyslexia is a fault with the neurological systems which 'decode' the written symbols on the page into something we can understand in our head.  Dysgraphia is a fault with the system, which encodes the words which are in our head in to visual symbols on the page.  You ae displaying dysgraphia.

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Answer 8

Hi there...

I was diagnosed with dyslexia when I was in 4th grade.  I am 47 right now.  Things are still difficult for me.  Numbers are still difficult for me...so is my spelling.  Thank goodness for spellcheck!  My parents were told (while I was still in Elementary school) that I might not go far in my educational process. Pretty much that I should get used to saying..."do you want fries with that??")  Needless to say, I did graduate high school.  I then enrolled at North Central College and graduated in 1982 with a BA in Elementary Education. I became certified to teach students between K. and 9th grade.  Still, those lingering feelings of the fear of messing up things kept me from getting a teaching job.  I have been working at a local middle school as an inclusion facilitative assistant.  I work with 6th, 7th and 8th grade special ed students in their health class.  I recently went back to college (after 25 years...) so that I can get further certified for special education along with my master's degree in teacher's leadership.  I really base my success on the strategies that I have learned.  I read and then re-read and high light  important things in my text books.  I constantly rely on spellcheck,  I check, re-check and re-check written work.  If I have a project in grad school, I make a check list to follow the items that I have to include and check them off when completed.  I am no longer afraid to ask for help or clarification if I am uncertain about anything.  I have let my professors know about my dyslexia.  I am a divorced mother of a wonderful, highly intelligent 18 year old. I am also an artist.  I draw wonderful home portraits.  I have never taken any classes for my craft.  I was going thru a divorce and found out that I could draw!  When one window closes, God opens another...That's the truth.

I felt compelled to write to you.  I wanted to let you know that you are not alone.  Find out what strategies seem to work best for you.  Don't be afraid to ask questions.  The only stupid question is the one that goes unasked.  Try an keep up with your poetry.  I'm sure that you're quite good at it.  If you leave a word or two out, re-read and then re-read it and you'll find your errors.  If you ever have a question or two...just respond back to this.  I'll help, if I can.  You are not alone.  There are more of us out here...Just ask and you'll find more.

Don't give up!

Answer 9

Dyslexia is the functional inability  to encode or decode written or spoken language.  

It is a dysfunction or absence of correct training and results in lifelong difficulties if there is no training or remediation by a reading therapist.  

I have experience teaching the de Paul Method for dyslexia remediation.  

If you are in college, then there is a reading lab somewhere in your system that will be able to help you.  Otherwise, there is Sylvan learning Centers.  

The continued inability to read or write is not a disease.  It is a failure in the educational system to recognize that not everyone reads the same way.  

The fall back diagnosis has always been "mildly retarded".  It is an error that people have had to live with for years.  

Everyone is able to read.  Some learn one way and some learn another.  The questioner here has a different learning style that was not recognized by a failed system.  

I have had the pleasure of teaching 70 year olds to read.  I have taught autistic children to read.  I have taught profoundly affected people with degenerative neuro-muscular disease to read.

Go to your counseling department and tell them you are unable to read.  Otherwise, go to a reading pathology screener and be tested.  Once your functional ability is established then seek a remediation program.  They are available.