Dyslexia...

summerskin

Now, this isn't a rant about/against dyslexia or dyslexics, more about whether people actually are dyslexic or not.

My wife is dyslexic, she had struggled all her life with certain aspects of spelling and reading but it was never recognised by her teachers. eventually, in the 2nd year of her degree (she was studying accounting and finance after working her backside off for years to get on the course) she was referred by a counsellor at her university to take a test for dyslexia. Turns out she had it, and was given extra time on exams and coursework, and occasional assistance while at university. It made a huge difference to her studies and the support given was outstanding.

My daughter, on the other hand, has also always struggled with spelling (but not reading) and we have always just thought that this is something she struggles with in much the same way many people struggle with certain things. Anyway, at a parent/teacher evening in secondary school we were told that they'd like to test her for dyslexia. Turns out she's just crap at spelling, but reads at a level a couple of years above her age.

The odd part is that for the six months before she took the test the teachers often referred to her as being dyslexic in her journal, without even having had the test. It was like it was taken for granted that because she couldn't spell she was dyslexic. Like it was an excuse.

So, all that has made me wonder, how many people actually are dyslexic (i.e. been tested and diagnosed) and how many people/institutions use it as an excuse to hide behind their poor spelling?







*waits for joke about the dyslexics march to the Dail ending in chaos when they turned up at Aldi instead...

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

i know a couple of people who swear blind they are dyslexic but are just **** spellers.
doesn't help that the only thing they ever get around to reading are fast food menus, or sky digital tv guide

frag420

Dyslexia for cure found!!!

John Doe1

In the old days we called them stupid people:p

Seachmall

Dyslexia.
Colour Blindness.
OCD.


All things people assume they have because they do something stupid every now and then. Sometimes they even brag about it.

TheBunk1

Dyslexics are teople poo!!

Casillas

A dyslexic man walks into a bra...

afatbollix

Ya I have it.

Was one of the first to use a laptop for the leaving cert. It was also my downfall as I didn't study as I was on the net the whole time.

allibastor

dyslexia rules K.O.

but seriously it is a pain in the whole to have. i was tested and all that back in secondary school. teachers thought i was trouble in class and was never paying attention. thought i was cheating in tests because i always got high marks yet never seemed to pay attention or do work.

turn out i could do most things in my head and understood things very easy what others might take hours to do. just cant spell and words with different spellings mean the same thing to me. words don't come out of my mouth sometimes so it sounds like i am stuttering or something like that.

Immaculate Pasta

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:cool:

Ghandee

I'm Dislexik, Dysectix, dystlexic



I cant fcuking spell. :mad:

hairyprincess

We were all offered a test when we started college, I did it and I'm not dyslexic. I come from a big family and I have one niece who is dyslexic

Snowie

Op what kind of test was given, my last test was little over a year ago, it tuck a hole day with two pretty hot female physcoligests one observing my body language the other testing all kinds of kinds of things to do with brain activity...

Prior to that I had one at 14 and prior to that i was tested 5 times and not one of the other 5 education physcoligests couldn't pic on it because of the style in which I was tested.

But yep i've got a nice NLI 14 page documenting my dyslexia....

Remember a few years ago there was a lad claiming on boards he could fake them, :pac: its impossible the test are that tough on your brain I slept for a day after words it tired me out to the point of exhaustion.

As for dyslexia, its just a different way of learning for me I've got ADD too so its a little different....

Snowie

hairyprincess wrote: »

We were all offered a test when we started college, I did it and I'm not dyslexic. I come from a big family and I have one niece who is dyslexic

yet you thank people who throw snide comments at people who have trouble spelling and are dyslexic? .. :rolleyes:

Old Tom

Dyslexia... I remember I used to suffer from one, a few slaps of my dad's hand fixed me in no time.

Eeh, old good times when people were smart enough to know that a coffee can be hot and they shouldn't drink toilet cleaner.

summerskin

Snowie wrote: »

Op what kind of test was given, my last test was little over a year ago, it tuck a hole day with two pretty hot female physcoligests one observing my body language the other testing all kinds of kinds of things to do with brain activity...

Prior to that I had one at 14 and prior to that i was tested 5 times and not one of the other 5 education physcoligests couldn't pic on it because of the style in which I was tested.

But yep i've got a nice NLI 14 page documenting my dyslexia....

Remember a few years ago there was a lad claiming on boards he could fake them, :pac: its impossible the test are that tough on your brain I slept for a day after words it tired me out to the point of exhaustion.

As for dyslexia, its just a different way of learning for me I've got ADD too so its a little different....

Sounds quite similar to the tests my wife and daughter had, minus the hotties.

starbelgrade

Snowie wrote: »

Op what kind of test was given, my last test was little over a year ago, it tuck a hole day with two pretty hot female physcoligests one observing my body language the other testing all kinds of kinds of things to do with brain activity...

Hmm.... sounds suspiciously like a plot from a porn movie.

SEPT 23 1989

dyslexic ravers dance all night on F

Chuck Stone

I'm fairly confident I don't have dyslexia even though I found school awful boring. I'm shit at maths though.

Algebra and long equations look like this to me.

Schism

I have a question about Dyslexia.

So, if you're dyslexic and spell a word wrong do you realise you've spelled it wrong? Or do you write the word down and think, yes, that is how that is spelled?

Guill

My spelling is **** but i am not dyslexic.

marty1985

I have a friend called Tom who says his dyslexia was cured by the Church of Scientology.

Ghandee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYHxCCwu2aQ

Dudess

I'm 34 and I've never known or met anyone who says they're dyslexic but really just a crap writer.
Smacks of a typically After Hours myth/assumption made up by people resenting others getting what they perceive as special treatment. I also wouldn't have the expertise to ascertain just by looking at someone's writing whether they're dyslexic or a poor writer.

Duiske

I love it. Every time I try to spell it I get dailysex.

Stercus Accidit

Seachmall wrote: »

Dyslexia.
Colour Blindness.
OCD.


All things people assume they have because they do something stupid every now and then. Sometimes they even brag about it.

Red & Green look identical to me in certain circumstances, how is that imagined? It is a reduced number of red detector cones in my eyes, it is physical, how is that like dyslexia or OCD, which are mental issues?

Peetrik

Dyslexics UNTIE!!

summerskin

Stercus Accidit wrote: »

Red & Green look identical to me in certain circumstances, how is that imagined? It is a reduced number of red detector cones in my eyes, it is physical, how is that like dyslexia or OCD, which are mental issues?

i had to give up my childhood dream because of red/green colour blindness. I found out at ten that i could never be a pilot. t'was a bummer. I really struggle with green as a colour. i've bought various t-shirts and jeans etc that i thought were a shade of brown only to get them home and the wife tell me i look like kermit the frog in them.

libnation

I gave my poor sister a hard time with her ridiculous spelling growing up not realising she was severely dyslexic.

The world be easier if everything was phonetic

Stercus Accidit

summerskin wrote: »

i had to give up my childhood dream because of red/green colour blindness. I found out at ten that i could never be a pilot. t'was a bummer. I really struggle with green as a colour. i've bought various t-shirts and jeans etc that i thought were a shade of brown only to get them home and the wife tell me i look like kermit the frog in them.

I was forever wearing pink formerly white tee-shirts.

TheRealCroc

Schism wrote: »

I have a question about Dyslexia.

So, if you're dyslexic and spell a word wrong do you realise you've spelled it wrong? Or do you write the word down and think, yes, that is how that is spelled?

I'm a 29 yr old dyslexic, I don't realise I have spelt the word incorrectly, if I did then I would obviously correct it.

With a lot on training and extra Dyslexic classes since I've been 11, I've been taught some techniques to double check work and reduce my mistakes.

Its not all about spelling incorrectly, sometimes I will write a sentence,read over it, think it is fine and when it has been corrected I may have left out the last 4-5 words of the sentence.

Simple lines like "the shop ran to the dog." (That was from my fourth class homework) will look fine to me and I might read it 100 times as "The dog ran to the Shop"

The words WAS SAW, I hate these two words!

There is a great organisation helping people who are Dyslexic, set up by Marie Stubbings.

they are non-profit and always could do with a donation.

She really helped me through secondary school and I ended up getting a C in Honour English, mainly down to her hard work.

http://www.dyslexicsupport.org/Home%20Page.html

karaokeman

Oh boards..... now ye're stalkin.

allibastor

Schism wrote: »

I have a question about Dyslexia.

So, if you're dyslexic and spell a word wrong do you realise you've spelled it wrong? Or do you write the word down and think, yes, that is how that is spelled?

that is one of the problems i have. i can spell a word wrong and no matter how many times i look at it, it will look fine to me. i have always got to do a spell check.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Casillas wrote: »

A dyslexic man walks into a bra...

I'll bet ya he felt a right tit....

I have a mild form of dyscalculia which is numerical dyslexia. Reading annumbers and analogue clock faces is difficult without having to concentrate. I could look at a clock and the time is 3:50 and i will read it completely opposite as 8:10 and have to look at it several times until i see the correct time. I used to work in a shop and giving out change was a nightmare, i would read numbers arseways and end up giving people too little/much in change. I can look at a number several times and read it wrong and remembering telephone numbers with more than 4 digits in near impossible.

Where To

Not dyslexic and I don't use spelchek either :cool:

Micky Dolenz

My messy handwriting hides my terrible speeling.

saa

I'm Dyslexic, struggled to get D's in school went to college got the screening and once I worked out an alternative way to learn other than memorise and repeat I consistently got As and Bs in my BA. It's funny I would struggle to follow a fictional novel but can get through academic books better than most people in more course as I skim and use the information differently than reading and trying to recall the information.

My spelling is fine, I know all the technical aspects of English very well but there are the same 30 words I will automatically have an alternative spelling for like "knowlegde, restruant, concious, denail" I correct words like that and note the difference but it still happens. Its like someone telling you their name and still not being able to retain it.

Organising info/sentences to get my point across.
Short term memory.
Maths, I'm really strong with complicated problem solving questions but I can't do more basic forms of math.

Strong areas: got an extraordinarily high scores for vocab and general knowledge, high scores for visual problem solving can't remember the rest.
Lower scores for the back ward spelling/repeating lists of words and maths