Comments on: Is Dyslexia A DisAbility?

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:10:11 +0000

You are able to get benefit money such as Disability Living Allowance and Income Support as long as the Dyslexia is severe enough to be considered as a disability (e.g affects your mobility or care), or prevents you from being able to work. I have Dyspraxia which is very similar to Dyslexia and I get both of these benefits, and although I often don’t get support off any services as its a ‘hidden’ condition that doctors cant even pick up on I was told by a private psychologist who assessed me that I have a ‘disorder’ and Im eligible for Ring&Ride along with anyone with mobility issues. I also don’t have to have interviews with the job centre as its long term

By: julia

julia — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:55:02 +0000

hi i,ve just found out that my 11yr old son has dyslexia of all the yrs he,s attended school no teacher has picked up on this i,ve known for sometime that there has been something just not right as i have a 23yr old son aswell, My 11yr old son cant read well cant do the months of the yr cant do his alphabet and there,s no chance of him doing his time table,disability yes i think it is and should be recognised , why is it not ? because there not in a wheelchair, not using a walking stick , haven,t got a limb missing , dyslexia is the brain the information for our bodies to function , it isn,t starring us in the face so we dont want to no ,im going to do all i can for my lil boy as he has no confidence and say,s his brain has been put in upside down my god what makes a child say that, how does he feel !!! i dont no , if it wasn,t for a friend at work who has dyslexia i wouldn,t have found out my lil boy would,ve just been left sitting in a class to get on with it ,, he,s just slow and a bit lazy so the teachers have said for the last 6and a half yrs .

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By: deborah

deborah — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:24:35 +0000

you can go onto google and type in natural reader and its a weebsite that can read stff out to you on line or you can down load it all you do when got it open is highlight what you want to read and it reads it for you but if you do it online just cope and paste when you want it to read. or you can down load my study tool bar and it can help you also and you get a ruler tool to keep you line and lots other suff. they are free progrmms.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:10:35 +0000

hello all i have dyslexia. over time i have got better at reading and righting but that is just down to me wanting to better my self i am still far from being good at reading and spelling is still not good but i would have to say to all mums and dads halp your kids to read you will have to explain things to them more than one time but if they can read good thats the worst over from when i left school i was shit at reading i would not read to know one for i just could not understand what i was reading you need to get them reading sooner for this will slow them down in life and having dyslexia can make u better than most and if u have dyslexia u will fined it hard to get a good payed job sorry but as they say thats life

By: Sofi

Sofi — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:36:11 +0000

DSA – Disabled student allowance.
Dyslexia counts. You won’t get as much as someone with a serious disability which affects their every day life more severely, e.g. being confined to a wheel chair, as the allowance is to pay for specialist equipment to help you cope.
source, applied and got approval for mine a few weeks ago.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:50:20 +0000

You cannot get DLA for Dyslexia because it does not meet the criteria, Dyslexia does not affect your walking or your care, Dyslexia will not stop you washing going out or going to the bath room so no you will not be able to claim just for that.

Dyslexia will not stop you working, it may affect the type of job you get, but since all they are now looking for is of course can you work at something.

Dyslexia and other problems depends on the things I have stated, ESA deals with a simplistic view of disability.

But to get DLA you have to prove that Dyslexia has other extenuating problems and since I have both word and letter dyslexia I could never get DLA

By: dina krokthment

dina krokthment — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:06:54 +0000

my son has dyslexia but also has dysgraphia he also has visual disorder and short therm memorie the therapist told me that this disability is for life but there is help . he is only 7 years i apply for ssi but if i get aprove i dont want him to get the disability help for life because i want him to learn to live with his disability ….disability benefit will help him out because im thinking send him to guitar classes hope it help him to increase his selfsteam

By: Tolu Odozi

Tolu Odozi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:28:07 +0000

my daughter, Shammah has been assessed to have dyslexia. she is 10yrs old and does not like to be labelled disbaled. i really want to get help for her to improve in her reading and writing skills. her school is really trying all means and programmes to enable her settle to adequate education. i do appreciate what her school NOtrrdame catholic school in SE London has done so far but ia m worried about her secondary school education how to get her ina school

By: rosa

rosa — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:10:19 +0000

this might offend a lot of people but I dont think dyslexia is a disability.
I have dyspraxia which is basically from the family of dyslexia and means I have dificulty with sport.
up until a year ago I attended a school focusing mainly on learning difficulties such as Dyslexia , Dyspraxia etc. and to be honest none of the people I met there are what I would describe as having a disability.
My definition of a disability is something that colours every area of your life .
The children I met at that school were wonderful and I miss them very much.
To them and me , it wasnt a disability, it was what made them them really.
You may say the government defines it as a disability. well thats all fine and good for the government but who are they to tell me what I am and am not? What any of my friends are and are not?
Dyslexia , Dyspraxia , Dyscalculia etc. are what I and I think everyone there would term as a learning difficulty.
now this may cause some controversy as people might think are you ashamed at being labelled as having a disability?
no I’m not . If I had one I would be proud. But as it is I have dyspraxia and I do not want millions of children labelled as something they are not.
I honestly would be proud. I sound really nasty in this . But I believe that what I’m saying here applies to the people at my old school and me.
And I am so so proud to have Dyspraxia.