A couple of weeks ago my gf got diagnosed with dyslexia. It was quite late she's 23 and has done 4 years in college and her first year at uni and it was just picked up now. The problem is trying to get help the specialist is constantly cancelling appointments and then rescheduling them at the last minute when she can't go.
It's getting her down and if the next meeting doesn't happen she's going it alone (so to speak). The specialist is at the uni hospital she is studying at. Is there any other specialist in the NHS or charities? Or should she complain now? Anyone on here got dylexia?
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While I appreciate that this link will not help your GF in connection with her appointment problems, it may point her in the right direction of a recognised treatment that helps some sufferers.
www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk/News/coloured-glasses-and-overlays
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Thanks meldrew, it might help but I think the problem is more writing related. That website looks useful thanks.
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If she has only lately been diagnosed, I wouldn't worry, if it was bad it would have been picked up later.
I would also question the diagnosis. Who made it?
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Don't you mean earlier?
The first test said there were signs of it with one person then refered. Then a second test with another specialist confirmed it.
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yeah, sorry its my dyslexia!
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I don't think dyslexia had been invented when I was at school. Even if it had I shouldn't think it would have been allowed. Our teachers just used to hit us if we got things wrong so the incentive to get things right was fairly clear. They'd hit the back of your fingers with the edge of a ruler if they walked past and spotted you writing a spelling mistake. Flippin' hurt.
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It was 1881 and I'm not sure what your point is.
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No point at all. Just reflecting on different educational times. We used to get hit a lot and I'm glad they don't allow that anymore. That was their solution to everything it seemed.
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>>I don't think dyslexia had been invented when I was at school.
There's certainly a lot of it about. But then the child with specs, or asthma, was the exception too - now it's half the class.
I don't doubt it can be real enough though, in the sense of being more than simply neglecting to learn to spell. The cleverest man I know (he had to show the council engineer how to work out the stresses in the traditional oak framed barn he built so he could sign it off, and designs electronics for a living) can't spell to save his life, though he's too old to have been officially labelled dyslexic - lucky not to have been classed as a dunce in the old days.
It's one of those things you can't empathise with if you don't experience it. I just can't imagine it at all.
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>> If she has only lately been diagnosed, I wouldn't worry, if it was bad it would have been picked up later.
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Jackie Stewart is a dyslexic. An interesting clip of him explaining some aspects of his dyslexia.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdgip22h9I
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Dyslexia is a gift!
www.dyslexia.com/famous.htm
I've known a few Dyslexics ... all milionaires.
My mate Laurie used to say to me "You wont get anywhere in this world being normal".
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... all milionaires.
Is there a clue there, Dog? My browser's itching to correct it but that would spoil the fun.
Laurie's right, though: normality is overrated.
Last edited by: WillDeBeest on Tue 13 Sep 11 at 20:24
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My brother suffered incredibly with dyslexia. Used to get b's and d's etc backwards all the time along with other typically dyslexic mistakes. He discovered a talent for welding and fabrication and this was supported by my parents - after a year of this the dyslexia was gone (15-16 years old).
Something to do with manipulating objects in 3D space was the reasoning at the time. Dunno. It worked. May have been coincidence, may not.
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I'm pretty certain my daughter's dyslexic. I raised the question with her primary school teacher before the summer, but I was told that in there was only the funding to provide extra help to three pupils. Half a dozen children had worse reading / spelling skills than mine, so there was no chance.
>> after a year of this the dyslexia was gone
>> Something to do with manipulating objects in 3D space was the reasoning at the time
Strangely enough, at her new secondary school this term she's already been pointed at a website with loads of 3D mathematical games on it - she loves them and has persevered with the trickier levels long past the point at which I'd start cursing. There appears to be much better intervention at this school for struggling pupils :)
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Tue 13 Sep 11 at 23:23
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>>Is there a clue there, Dog? My browser's itching to correct it but that would spoil the fun<<
It looked like two L's to me, so it's my eyes rather than the way my brain is wired up (I think)
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I'm glad it isn't just my eyes that find that one difficult. Philips v. Phillips - hard to spot the diference if the print is small.
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I used to be Dyslexic but I'm all right won.
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...I used to be Dyslexic but I'm all right won...
Very witty, Orez.
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Why is Dyslexia so difficult to spell?
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And then again----
Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
Why is "mnemonic" so difficult to remember?
Why isn't there another word for thesaurus?
Why do we spell "lisp" with an "s"?
Why Is there only one word for synonym?
And Finally:
Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?
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Hauling this back on track.
Dyslexia is much less of a handicap than it used to be, As long as it does not affect your reading abilities, the need to write (in longhand, to be read by others) is becoming a lost and defunct skill.
Its certainly no barrier to my son (who has dyslexic symptoms, but is actually ADHD)
Dyslexia is frequently a symptom of one of the autistic spectrum disorders.
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That's quite interesting Zero. I had various dyslexic colleagues over the years, some of them must have been within the autistic spectrum as well. Never stopped them, especially when IT became widely used to write stuff.
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Not sure I understand your comment. Surely the definition of Dyslexia is a disability that impairs a person's ability to read. Dyslexics are unable to reach the reading age that their mental age would anticipate. Nothing really to do with the ability to write in longhand
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It was the spelling thing I was alluding to - it's a symptom I'm led to understand.
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>>no barrier to my son (who has dyslexic symptoms, but is actually ADHD)<<
I thought he was ASD?
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No? ADHD with some aspergers symptoms. Statemented at school.
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>>illiterate<<
Ez one of those illi words again :)
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>> Dyslexia rules KO.
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IIRC the quote is Dyslexia lures KO.
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It seems a lot of university students are being assessed for Dyslexia in their first year. A friend has completed her first year as a mature student (in her 30's) having struggled to get A levels at evening classes in the past few years. A joy to discover there is a reason for the stupidity label she carried at school - and why she was not deemed able enough to stay at school for A levels.
It has meant she has had extra help in the last year to achieve a good grade.
Sooty, you need to do some research of your own - sometimes simple things like using yellow paper (or a yellow/pink/green film on work) will un-jumble the words to a major extent.
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I think it is something like myalgic encephalitis - they both exist but medical opinion ranges from they don't exist thru to In-patient treatment and everything in between!
Last edited by: Meldrew on Wed 14 Sep 11 at 10:50
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There is a modern obsession with diagnosing everything as something.
Could it be she is simply rubbish at spelling?
My middle brother is, and despite being a magistrate, he is intelligent in all other respects.
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I think it's probably a bit more complicated than that judging by the OP iffy.
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...I think it's probably a bit more complicated than that judging by the OP iffy...
Only if those involved want it to be.
I've always been good at spelling, there's no reason for that, I just am.
Although the only book I open regularly is a dictionary.
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...Look up "iffy" then :-)...
Certainly:
iffy |ˈifē|
adjective ( iffier, iffiest) informal
full of uncertainty; doubtful : the prospect for classes resuming next Wednesday seems iffy.
• of doubtful quality or legality : a good wine merchant will change the iffy bottles for sound ones.
Appropriate, which is why I chose it as a username.
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No, there is much more to it than that.
I for one, could never do differential equations, algebra and trigonometry was Japanese to me.
Yet I can do quite involved calculations in my head, and I can breeze through suduku puzzles, because I seem to have a pattern based ability that I developed to cope with stuff.
My spelling, punctuation and grammar on here is terrible, yet when I write, it's perfect. Handwriting has form and pattern, typing doesn't.
(it doesn't help that I am a ferociously fast typist)
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 14 Sep 11 at 11:50
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I read that as fart typist.
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...I read that as fart typist...
The swearfilter's moved on a bit from the old place.
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Yeah and I did all on my own without Dave's permission ! It was filtering out properly used words such as farther etc...we're all grown ups aren't we ?
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...It was filtering out properly used words...
I take it the f-word which means 'type of typeface' remains on the banned list.
Quite right, we don't want people who are naturally cleverer than me with computers making this place look untidy.
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...You mean font ?...
You can say that, but I suspect I may not be able to.
Edit: Seems I can, but I still don't know how to use it to make big letters.
Last edited by: Iffy on Wed 14 Sep 11 at 12:33
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Well if people do that it goes back in the filter...!
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...Well if people do that it goes back in the filter...!...
That's a gauntlet thrown down which I apprehend someone will be unable to resist picking up.
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It's a matter of trust...
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Or even turst I suppose...
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I could, I am itching to do it, I broke round the filter with a graphic command once, but I musn't.
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Hi Iffy,
If your middle brother, the magistrate, has trouble with spelling, how does he manage with sentencing?
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Kara Tointon (a d-list soap actress come strictly 'celebrity') actually did something worthwhile last year, a documentary about her diagnosis with dyslexia, how it affected her life and how she found some strategies to help her function more effectively.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy8c7
My wife has dyslexia, and I found this programme very informative- it helped me to understand more about the condition and how I could help her.
HTH,
Alex.
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...how does he manage with sentencing?...
I expect he sends ofenders to prisen.
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Hope he doesn't deal with speeding footballers. They might find themselves spending six months in goal.
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Dyslexia help - Meldrew
