Is Dyslexia A DisAbility?
Labour MP Graham Stringer recently released his opinion that dyslexia is a myth invented by education chiefs to cover up poor teaching methods. He was, understandably, heavily criticised by dyslexia charities. When I first heard the news, I planned to write a rant about how he was talking rubbish. But then I discovered that my friends at mainstream blog Liberal Conspiracy had taken the post straight out of my mind. Unity’s excellent essay sparked a debate with another mainstream blogger, Letters From A Tory. So I decided to cross-post their whole debate here at this blog. This page has been created so I could list the links to these cross-posts all in one place, because this debate has kept the ‘Same’ in ‘Same Difference.’
Unity– DisAbility
Letters From A Tory’s Reply– Myth
John Rack at CIF- DisAbility I have not cross-posted this as I don’t want to break any CIF rules but have linked it instead.
Unity’s Reply to LFAT: DisAbility
Rod Duncan: DisAbility
AA Gill: DisAbility
Boy, 9, in Northern Ireland: DisAbility
Dyslexia Action: DisAbility
Meseret Kumulchew- DisAbility
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are you able to get money benefits for being dyslexic? please write back its a important questions!
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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
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I know a lot about dyslexia it’s a learning difficulty not a disability also you will not get dla for this.
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My son is sixteen he could never go into a mainstream school as he can’t read and write and he would get aggatitated and anxious which have gave him behaviour problems he can work with groups of people it as to be 1onl he got into college this year but was threw out because he came a danger to hiself and to others not because he was messing about he couldn’t handle been in a big group he went to a special school skill centre he wasn’t doing good at all he needed one on one but they didn’t get him ready for college so he was set up to fail
Ed
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Dyslexia is a disability whether you are affected severely or not. It is classed as cognitive disorder too, as cognitively, you are impaired.
Maria Gill, you are wrong. It is a disability because IQ is not affected. It can be low IQ, but as long as your IQ is above 70, it is normal IQ. Anything of 70 and under is a learning disability, as IQ is affected. Try to learn your facts before making ignorant and dangerous comments. I am a psychologist, who has dyslexia and dyscalculia, and both are disabilities. I am not working at the moment as I am not fit for work due to health problems, but I get PIP and part of that is due to dyslexia and dyscalculia.
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Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a common disorder affecting fine and/or gross motor coordination in children and adults. It may also affect speech. DCD is a lifelong condition, formally recognised by international organisations including the World Health Organisation. DCD is distinct from other motor disorders such as cerebral palsy and stroke, and occurs across the range of intellectual abilities. Individuals may vary in how their difficulties present: these may change over time depending on environmental demands and life experiences.
An individual’s coordination difficulties may affect participation and functioning of everyday life skills in education, work and employment.
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MY DAUGHTER IS 8 YEARS OLD. I WAS WONDERING IF THIS IS A DIABILITY THAT WILL HELP ME WITH HER SCHOOLING AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT SHE NEEDS
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you can ask the school to get the sens team to assess your daughter. my daughter has been diagnosed with dyslexia and is taught in a different way. she gets extra time and help. you can go to the dyslexia institute who can do a full detailed report, you have to pay for that . it is very good ,and very clever people can have this condition.
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No you dont im dyspraxic and i dont get money
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Dyspraxia is pretty varied. I just need extra time for written and typed tasks and fall on my face more than the average person, but I hold down my (mostly talking based) job with no problems, and can generally walk to work without incident. Some people, like Lisa, have more severe problems, and have trouble finding a job that it’s physically possible for them to do or getting around. So she gets DLA etc, but we don’t.
Dyslexia rarely comes with mobility issues, or problems with overall processing unless there’s something else going on, so it’s much less likely that someone will get DLA for it
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Please let me know if i have a. Disable. As a child no matter how hard or try timetables i could never do i try so hard to learn them my teacher or myself would word try learning time table get it right i would never get timetable to stay in my head i would always forget the asnwer right. Not even if i was told the anwer i could never remerber the answer now as am older auldt 53year all my year try so hard to learn them still could i try to work around money cash register i could do it. My guestion i. Been told by a socil worker that i my have adisablety i need to have someone check into that is it to late for me to see if i have adisablety. Or to see if that case and if i have disabley is it to let for me to get socil serciuty aswer please help
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It’s not too late. Your local NHS should have a community team for learning disabilities, and they may be able to test you. Usually the best way to see them is to talk to your GP.
Otherwise, there are psychologists and occupational therapists who do testing privately, but this can be expensive.
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What you are describing is dyscalculia. An inability to calculate numbers in your head, but it also encompasses other maths problems.
Although you can be dyslexic and have a maths problem, yours sounds more like dyscalculia and I can sympathise with you, as I have dyslexia and dyscalculia.
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no thay think dyslexia is not a disability
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I HAVE BEEN DISLEXIC ALL MY LIFE AND WHEN I WAS GOING THREW SCHOOL I WAS TOLD I WAS DOM STUPPED ANS LASEY. I CONCETER IT A DISABILITY BECOUSE IF I DONT HERE THE INFO AND HAVE SOME ONE READ IT TO ME I FALE THE WRITEN TESTS… IT ONLY TAKES ONE WORD IN A QUESTION TO CHANGE THE HOLE MEANING OF THE QUESTION.
IT A DISABILITY FOR ME AND I AM 64 AND WILL BE 65 NEXT MONTH
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No it is is a disability because your IQ is not affected. Thus it is not a learning difficulty, where IQ is affected, e.g. below 70.
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For transparency, I am going to qualify in a few months as an Educational Psychologist. Last year, at the age of 29, I was diagnosed with Dyslexia. My Dyslexia doesn’t my everyday life, just Doctorate level academic writing. You cannot claim benefits for Dyslexia. However, if the person with Dyslexia is in education they can apply for funding for supports e.g. proofreader. But they aren’t just handed money, the money has to be justified by a needs assessment and the money can only be spent on that support. Dyslexia is NOTHING like Dyspraxia (now known as DCD). The only similarity the two conditions have as they are both on a a spectrum – e.g. my Dyslexia doesn’t affect my everyday life but for other people with Dyslexia may struggle with things I don’t.
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I don’t know about benefits. I do know that if you’re at university, you can get something called Disabled Student’s Allowance for dyslexia.
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Dyslexia is a physical and a social disability.
Typically we do have permanent reading and writting difficulties and other processing dificulties. That’s the physical disability.
Typically society is controlled by literate graduates and they impose things like a lteracy based curriculum rather than allowing an audio/aural based curriculum. That’s the social disability.
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NO, dyslexia is a cognitive impairment, a learning disability. Nothing to do with ‘physical,’ as you put it. Dyslexia is not just about having reading, writing and spelling difficulties. It is also about having short-term memory deficits, slow processing speed, impaired phonological loop, logical reasoning, analytic, problems, being colour blind, disorganised, poor time keeping, logical ordering, confusing words like ‘bare’ and ‘bear’, as they have the same phonic sound, (phonological loop impairment) and much more.
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hi i heard about your sight through a very close family memer i have cp,had it scencei was 1 .iwas dropped on my head ,my head got caved in and had it ever sence.it in my right hand and leg too .i have real bad spasms now and i have bleard vision now too i can go out side for a little but not for long due to it messes with my eyes.pretty soon i well need a scoter due toi cant walk that great any more and i fall a lot too know but what i thought wa strange my doctor does not want me to have a scooter he wants me to keep on walking .well what he does not now is now i due not havemuscules orvery littleligament in my left hip
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Maybe your doctor wants you to walk because your muscles will become even weaker if you start to use an electric scooter regularly, which will become even more of a handicap. If you can learn to walk with a stick, and wear head protection for the problem of falling, you will do better to keep walking for as long as possible. It affects digestion, elimination and circulation, too.
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In the uk dyslexia is a disability by law, you cant get benefit to keep yourself out of work. Because dyslexia does not stop you from working.
You can get dyslexia allowance for support equipment in education around 3000 in senior school and 4000 pounds at university.
regards
Steven Milner
http://www.ihavedyslexia.co.uk
Social network for dyslexia
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hi can i get disability allownce for my child having dislexier thanks
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i have dyslexia and i lost my job in august this year and since then i can not get a job as i can not read to well and spell and i have problems with maths so wen i go to a job interwiew and have to fill in forms i just freez most of the time my girlfriend has to come with me so she can help me so that means draging my 2y old son out with us i can not read books as i read one lineand then start reading the next line under that one ect ect
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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.
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Gary, many men have that problem. A man that I dated for three years did absolutely nothing for himself as far as taking the time to read, fill out, comprehend, And as far as I know he didn’t have dyslexia. So don’t let that be a major concern. But still do your part in correcting or making the issue bearable.
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Dyslexia can be disabling, especially in particular work environments. Nevertheless, if I can work in a quiet, non-distracting environment I can work far better than the average person and can excel if I play to my strengths.
I believe it falls under the disability discrimination act. An employer, school, college, uni should make reasonable adjustments in the UK.
Visit our dyslexic international community http://dyslexicsupport.ning.com
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See website Right to Write. Dyslexia comes under DDA most definitely.
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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.
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Dyslexia ect, fall under government guidelines of what can be defined as a disability, but that does not make instantly define someone with dyslexia as disabled. The question is generally put ‘do YOU feel you have a disability under the act’, so you are totally in your rights to say that you don’t think you do. It falls under the definition because it can affect your ability to do things (including work) as people without would be able to.
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Rosa, who are you to judge? I have support and all the softwear to help me with dislexia, but it goes further than reading and writing, like shopping. Reading labels. Bus times, Work times, directions, moving is a complete nightmare. I have no bearings at all, even though I try to keep to the same route, but if it snows or rains I am completely lost and muddle left and right. I have gone to collect things, before sat nav, and ended up taking 10 hours to do a half hour run! due to getting left and right mixed up and not reading road signs quick enough. I know the warning ones but its the names of places, I cant read fast enough and take the wrong road.
Going for a walk I can get lost! Then I start to panic, it is like have my brain wired wrong and yet other people who do not have dislexic do not understand as I look and move ok! but my brain is doing something else.
My dislexica also effects hearing, and I can muddle words if the speaker is not clear which is another nightmare as I get the wrong instructions, then I can write it down wrong and the initial task takes on a whole new meaning. If the employers wonders why you are doing something completely different to what he asked, then that is why, but it happens all the time. It is horrible, but I look fine. Its like mental health where a person looks well, but its what is going on in the head thats the problem. So yes it effects mobility, as you have no bearings but it does not mean I fall over. Rosa your comments are discriminating.
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If you don’t know your left from right and can’t read signs then you shouldn’t be driving
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Zed Dragon, thank you, you are completely right. Sharon, you are right also and I feel your pain. Rosa I’m sorry to inform you that you do have a disability if you have dyspraxia. No it is not a condition having anything to do with sports other than your inability to participate in them due to your disability. Dyspraxia deals with the mind’s capibilities for sending signals to other parts of your body to perform specific functions. An example of this is you want to stick out your right arm in front of you but what your brain tells your arm to do is to stick it out to your right side instead of in front. The government is not trying to tell you or your friends what they are or are not. This is your own issue that you have with your own condition.Your definition of a disability is completely wrong. A disability doesn’t have to color every area of your life only the ones that really matter for it to be disabiling to you. I really wish people would know of what they are speaking of BEFORE they post things, because for all of us that are looking for answers for themselves or loved ones you have to go thru all the crap before you can get answers you really are seeking.
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You are not qualified to make that judgement. It is a disability because IQ is not affected. If IQ
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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
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hey my name is sean i did a program named dore it really helped with my dyslexia i have improved in my spelling and reading i really sagest looking for this program it is really good helped me so much
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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
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Best wishes, guitar playing is a great therapy for all sorts of things, hope that goes well for him ))
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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
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You can work and claim DLA and explain you are disabled too! there is working tax disablement for people with dislexia. This is where you will never be able to do any jobs due to your condition but you are working within your restrictions. You have to apply for DLA first which I think is dumb as the criteria is different for both, but if you are working then the tax office say dislexia fulfil the criteria but they need an assessment via DLA. this could be an area of government discrimination however, the government need to make it clear as dislexic people will be discriminated
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Sharon, you may have dyslexia and from your post to Rosa you have it severe. YOU GO GIRL!!!! From reading your posts though it looks like you have a great handle on things and as for a mom who is looking ahead you give me hope that my 8yr old son will be ok. Don’t ever stop trying to better yourself and to let others know what you know.
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My lad is now 12 gets DLA for Dsylexia and Irlens a visual processing disorder under the disability discrimination act of 1994.Another child in class does not qualify as no reports nothing just an opticians prescription for Irlens.
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Hiya ive just found out my 8 year old has irlen could u give me some advice?the school have worked out that his reading writing is below a 6 year old they has just starting the vision where he puts a coloured piece of paper over his reading book they said he hasnt got dsylexia thou
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Hi Olivia are you still available through this forum?
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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.
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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
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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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I just want to agree with julia my boy now 8 1/2 is being screened for dyslexia at the moment and the only reason for this screening is that his school has sent him to a naughty school for his behaviour. My boy has had issues with school since he started on his 1st IEP @ the age of 4. All behavioural issues which they’ve put down to my parenting skills,bounderys etc and not 1 teacher special needs teacher, pediotrion has once thought it could be dyslexia. I do believe its a disabily as my boy can’t work in a large group this has affected all aspects of his life and should be reconised. Because now he is just labled as naughty when its a mental problem not a choice . As the school would say my boy is choosing to behave this way (like any child chooses to misbehave constantly). I just hope that any parent that’s having issues with behaviour ask for their child to be assed as the behaviour masks the issue, as I have found out the hard way.
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To Julia and Tracy, I’m so sorry for what your going through. I myself am now in your situation. I have told every one of his teachers starting in pre-k that he will probably be dyslexic because my husband is also and it is hereditary. Now my sons reading level is 1.4 (which translates to month 4 of 1st grade). My son is now in third grade and has a dr appt this week to see if maybe he has ADD (no hyperactivity) also because he cannot focus. Now I don’t even have the option of dropping him back to second grade because his reading level is not even there yet. After struggling through 2nd grade the school finally did the dyslexia evaluation at the END??? of the year.(you will have to be diagnosed through the doctor, not the school if you seek benefits. Just FYI). I don’t know why they waited till the end of the year to do the evaluation or why no teacher has ever noticed his inability to pay attention until now. Our 504 committee meeting with the school was 11-01-2013 where I was told that his other teachers had noticed and documented that he had trouble paying attention. Maybe if someone would have brought this to my attention I could have already had him on ADD meds and his dyslexia may not have been so much of an issue. Both of your schools from the teachers up to administration should be ashamed of themselves. Please do not think of yourselves as bad parents. YOU ARE NOT! It is the schools that are not willing to get off their ASSES and do something. Please to any parent if you are reading this and you know your child (and your the only one who does) is not acting right take them to the doctor first and voice your concerns, see what happens, then deal with the school. Some school officials are intimidating forget about that and do what you need to do for your child. Good luck to both of you.
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I agree as I too have just found out my son has and his been in secondary school for over a year, and its only that he has a new English teacher that recognised his problem that we are now heading forward to get him help as otherwise he will find his exams very difficult 😦
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This was to comment on Julia’s, sorry
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hi
doint no if you r still applying on this site or reeding
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im 43 and at the age of 8 the techers at shool yold my mun that your sonr need help with his behaver and he is getting into trubel
as my mum had to deal with paying the bills and my dad was a alcoholic all i got was a beating from them bouth becouse thay dident understand wot my need wear
all throu my 2nd shool i coodent reed or right at all bad reports and more slaps
this is wear i found my 1st love and with my head in the clouds i started trying to make monney so i could pay for the simplest thigs
at this point in my life my mum kite my out of the house due to me steeling yes i no it was bad but at the time i did wot i had to to just sevive ( no i doint do that ayn more)
right to cut this stoy short in 43 my wife how was my 1st love that i marded also in the end kidet me out and i live in a goverment flat with nothing i strugel every day with simpel things and wyh isent it classed as a suport thing
i no my life is going to be crap is it worth living any more ?this world is only for the rich and anyone with this cind of need is doomed i have tryrd to get help from so meny pepole and all the doors have closed i work in a charty shop wear i have show them how to improve make monkey im crap and dislexic but i no now to make money but as this world is only for the ones thats can show this in paperwork and i do need this help but cant get it if you speek to me face to face you will be shoked becoeu i speek so good englesh but i try my best to spell but comes out tisy terby
im so talented and this is my down fall i can rebuild houses fully reavate i can amaze you in my speeking i can desing you clouths i can rebuild things and so much more
if you can help me without taking the piss my email is s.patel@ntlworld.com
p.s thans to the deborah dident no thet this exzited (natural reader ) seen it long bake in tomorrows wolrd iv got speek thing on my phone and life will get beter but it mite be by the time im 60 then wot left by be i can right a book and be come a milerner are
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Hi They say only people learning and speaking the English Language are dyslexic or have problems with dyslexia…you sound like you may have ADHD. For both conditions any creative or artistic employment is preferred and one can excel in. 🙂
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hello i am a 13 year old girl and i have Dyslexia i an just now relay learning about i hope a lot of people can help me learn more about it.
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Hello, You need to develop self-esteem and self-praise this condition can cause you stress and others to bully you. Learn and follow creative hobbies/subjects- To learn about the condition look online and learn from others who also have the condition for insights and tips, as dyslexia is different in everyone (no two people will have the same traits or problems) Lastly don’t worry as this will make your dyslexia worse.
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Hi my name is Lisa I have a son who thinks his 9yr old son has dyslexia.He has an IPA at his old school and one to one help with his reading and writing and he had a senco report.The school said he was borderline dyslexic.He moved to another school just over a year ago and I mentioned to the headmistress, about the possibility of my son being dyslexic and they said they were going to assess him soon.He has only just caught up with most of his classmates with his reading ability.He is also quite highly strung and his concentration isn’t very good.I have approached the school several times about the test but they keep fobbing me off,not sure what to do or contact.He starts high school next year so I would like this to be sorted.Any advice etc would be grateful.
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Hi Lisa, Sounds like your son also has ADHD,however moving schools is stressful and he needs time to settle down again. Try creating a happy home environment and helping him with being more creative, this will develop his self-esteem and protect him from the school bully. Find out what he loves doing and help him learn to achieve mini goals. Let the schools do their bit, but you as parent also have a very important role in his life- be the love and support he needs! There is a lot assistive technologies to assist in learning and one can always acquire these privately online another good source is The Dyslexia Shop that supply support and they are UK based. By the way in America Dyslexia is a ‘Learning Disorder’ not a learning difficulty!! Make your own enquiries into the condition and adopt the changes needed…because the professionals don’t always understand what, you the parent has to suffer or what the child has to cope with.
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Hello everyone, I have 4 people in my family who are dyslexic. My mother in law, my husband my daughter and my son. My son was the 1st to be diagnosed at University, his school were not interested in his understanding of comprehension or his spelling E English,A*Maths and Physics. I am the proud mother of a Dr of Philosophy in Astrophysics, my daughter is a teacher, my husband is an engineer with 40 years experience in his field. My mother in law is just herself.
Self esteem and confidence is the biggest hurdle as everyone thinks you are thick you are not by far. So you cannot spell or write upside down or whatever, chaneel your energies into becomiing an even more clever person. My son finds music a help with anything to do with words, so does my daughter and my husband, my mother in law well ???????. Short term memory is a problem, things to do? etc,etc. All make lists and write everything down straight away I help with spelling where I can but they think I am clever & I cannot do math.
I know nothing of benefits that you can get as their needs are help and support.
From the point of view as a person who is articulate in writing and able to put sentences together it has been a long road for us all it took 5 long years for my son to write his Thesis and I have not a clue as to what it all means, the pictures from telescopes look good.
Is anyone out there carsick as well because they either sleep or are sick in a car, do not like motion of any kind, it can be very alarming and scary for you as a person with or as a parent but believe me channel your energies into what you like to do.
All can be conquered.
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My daughter who is now 18 was tested for dyslexia at school and they told me she was fine and didn’t have it she was in the 6th grade then now she was tested by professionals who said she had dyslexia a learning disability her mobil skills are bad and has to see 2 rehab spec. And a social worker to help her.I have to miss a lot of work now to make sure she gets there I’m a single parent should I apply for social security for her
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are you in the USA? anyway, doesn’t matter where. if it doesn’t cost to apply for any benefits for any disability. apply for them, you be no worse off and you will have an answer.
hope you find the help. 🙂
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hi my son has dypraxia and dyslexic tendencies, he also finds social situations very challenging, he is due to look for work experience for next year but I feel worried that he will be discriminated against because of his problems, I mean he could not even speak articulately in an interview so how on earth will he get a job?
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I’m both number and letter Dyslexic, Number which is called Dyscalculia, has caused me serious problems all my life. Today with the new medical and the WCA I would say it would be near impossible to get benefits especially DLA for this disability.
You would have to prove it affected more then just your learning, and to be honest I’ve found when you say you have dyslexia people look at you and simply think oh yea.
I’m also Paraplegic after an accident and I cannot get benefits for that anymore, so I would say if your going to claim for Dyslexia you will need all the help you can get like going to specialist advisers. If your after DLA I would again say it would be today nearly impossible.
But do not take my word for it try and see how you go….
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I have benn sacked and turned down by employees because it takes me along time to write and do maths and I still don’t get it right and it because of my dislexia would I be able to get h help for this
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If you have been properly diagnosed, and have your report, then you should be able to. You need to state that you are disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act too. You might be able to get some support about improving your skills too.
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Thanks a lot for sharing this well put together website.
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Hi there , i am 30 and realising that i am dislexic over the last few years of more and reading about a lot or stuff and trying to write to companys to ask advice i work ful time in sales but find it very hard going as i dont always understand long words and my brain does not alway take in stuff, i am looking in to further education to maybe try and help me more but i also know i have bills to pay as well in life it would be great to be in contact with people out there more to see whats around to help us and maybe find away forward in life togeather my e-mail address is simonwade7@gmail.com
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It’s hideous that people deny this as an existing condition, or try to dismiss it’s serious effects. The damage done to self-worth and self-esteem is huge, Long before a diagnosis, any child that struggles to do what others do easily is going to feel stupid, excluded, fearful, confused and of course the behaviour that follows may be branded all sorts of things. adhd.. i think most cases of this are going to have roots in not fitting in, due to difficulties with processing what most find easy.. It shouldn’t be so hard to design simple tests for screening at an early age, which would save so much suffering.
Best wishes to you all in coping and making the best life you can for yourselves and your children )
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Yes it is. The reason I say this not because I suffer from it, or know someone who does.
I say it because it all boils down to your personal definition of what is a disability. In my opinion, any known or unknown medical condition that has a direct or adverse, or both, effect on your everyday life can be classed, and probably should be classed, as a disability.
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Dyslexia is a man made problem, about having problems using a man made communication system the visual notation of speech or the graphic symbols society chooses to represent the sounds of speech. There are two types of dyslexia Alexia (acquired dyslexia) which is caused by brain injury, stroke, atrophy, etc; and Developmental Dyslexia which has a genetic origin. Developmental dyslexia has three cognitive subtypes: auditory, visual and attentional. Which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder, or any combination of these issues can cause the dyslexic symptom. These are the clinical or medical conditions / disabilities that can cause the dyslexic symptom. And as medical disabilities it is possible to claim fo suport / benefits based on a clinical diagnosis for any of these issues, Most of these condtions have more serious symptoms than the shared dyslexic symptom
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I wonder if anyone could help me. I have been diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. I work part time and always have done from leaving school. As I started to face the real world I new there was something not right. As I become older I find it very hard to be independent in some ways and really effects me and makes me depressed sometimes. Someone said that even if I work part time i maybe able to apply for something called pip? To help to support me and the problems I face. Is this true as I’m not one to believe everything people tell me?
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Hi tori, I have a clinical diagnosis of auditory processing disorder as the cause of my developmental dyslexia symptom. It is possible to get DLA or PIPs as it is now called based on Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) based on the care element. APD has more severe symptoms than just teh dyslexic one, such as poor auditory memory, and temporal sound processing problems, which can in turn cause working memory issues. And it also possible to clain ESA based on having APD, gain based on the levels of support and accomodations you may require. You can find more information on the APDUK web site.
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Dyslexia is a difficulty even though it affects the brain like for example putting shoes on the wrong feet it is actually proven that in the part of the brain that controls co-ordinates is back to front hence putting shoes on the wrong feet before realising that they are on wrong. My husband is dyslexic and worked as a VNA driver and has had to leave due to him having complex partial seizures so atm he can not drive and is really struggling to find a different job because of his dyslexia and I cant work because im a carer for our Autistic daughter im hoping to god that he can claim pip or incapacity benifits. In todays society employers will not tell a dyslexic person they didn’t get the job because the other person that got the job did not have a dyslexia but my hat goes of to anyone with a learning difficulty for soldering on no matter what
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im thinking that my dyslexica is less of a problem than me not been able tu walk and have severee pane and mental problems and severee metal turmoil. if I only had dylecics I would jump for joy and get a job and stopp woryin about benefits rafer than been dependent on them. I wish thats all I had rafer than spending my 24 our every day of the yur totaly dependin on other pepole and trapet on social monie. I cant see how my readin and speling probs compare to my serious mental and fisical problems. stop whinging and count lucky your not on the scrap hype
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I am both dyspraxic and dyslexic. I have found living independently to be a great challenge. I struggle with the most basic of multi-tasking. E.g. Vacuuming at my home – i tripped over the sofa because i forgot it was there and i have poor balance. Taking this into account most jobs for me would be dangerous.
I am currently attending University where I get DSA; I get a laptop, reading and writing software, (which i’m using to write this post) I have a specialist that teaches me learning strategy and a mentor to help mange my anxiety and depression- which is linked to dyspraxia.
I have found my learning difficulty to be debilitating. I live a lonely life- not by choice just because i find it difficult to make friends and find social situation far too overwhelming. I have difficulty going to local shop- going to my doctors when i think it’ll be busy- going on public transport.
My other living struggles are regarding safety in the home. If i try to cook i leave the hob on because i forget. I struggle with spatial awareness- this means i trip going up the stares- or if go out i can’t cross the road because i can’t judge the speed of an object heading towards me.
Recently, however, I’ve applied for PIP- to help me with the most trivial of tasks such as dressing myself or going to shop.
Before you judge people with learning difficulties remember that without being labeled disabled we wouldn’t be able to achieve the things ‘normal people’ have such as go to university. We need extra money and care so we can live a life near to quality of the ‘norms.’
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Hi my name is Tony Rice and I am disability access consultant, I thought I would just drop you a line in-regards to a new conference that Liverpool City Combined Regional Authority are hosting about the Accessible Britain challenge. Brian Keating is attending and will give an update on the progress of the Challenge, also there will be many delegates from LGA there and it will be a great platform for disabled people to raise issues around what local authorities are doing and how the financial cuts affect services. It will also be a launch of a new social inclusion tool for disabled people and businesses. The Evacu8me mobile phone app is a major project that I have developed and we have had great feedback and interest from many diverse businesses and disability support organisations. For more info please check out (www.evacu8me.com) I would be most grateful for your views on this.
With kind
regards
Tony Rice
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Personally, I believe that a dyslexic person’s individual circumstances make it a disability or not. For example, I’ve been diagnosed with moderate dyslexia, but it affects me mildly, and it’s more of an annoyance when I put down the wrong letter while writing or miss whole paragraphs whien reading print, but if it affected me to the degree that I was unable to reliably read and write anything, whether in print or otherwise, then it is certainly a disability. TL;DR: dyslexia’s not called a specific learning disability for no reason.
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Dyslexia is a disability expesly when you dint understand what your reading
I an 5 out of 7 when I was first tested ans I understand that there 130 girent areras
the only way I got the job I have was with a tuter
I am 64 now and will be 65 on fedurary 5
Tom Winchester
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My son is 11 and a half and is severely dyslexic he can’t read, everything has to be read for him. To write anything he has to either copy it (and even then he writes the letters all back to front) or be told the letters. He has to rely on someone all the time. To say being dyslexic doesnt affect a persons day to day life is wrong, it certainly affects his…I always say to people who can read if u think about it u can’t remember not being able to read can u? So how can u know what it feels like to be that age and not be able to.
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I AM THINKING THAT DISLEXICA IS A DISABILITY AND WE ALL NEED HELP TO KEEP OUR JOBES WHEN THAY REQUIRE US TO TACK TEST EACH YEAR AND NOW WANT 100 TO KEEP OUR JOBES THOMAS WINCHESTER
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Dyslexia is not just a disability – it is often also compounded by poor teaching methods. Do you remember the ‘Look say’ method of teaching reading in the 1970’s? Children were expected to learn to read recognising the shape of a word as opposed to its component letters – often leading to a misunderstanding in how sounds were made up phonetically, and rules of spelling having to be relearnt much later on, aged seven or eight, or even later.
This evidently hampered children’s development even with mainstr4eam education, and for dyslexics the untangling of two different reading schemes (compounded if a child went to more than one school, each with different approaches) became extremely difficult.
Many children, intelligent and able in other areas, became known as late developers, but still managed to overcome their difficulties against overwhelming odds, in order to obtain good jobs with fine prospects. But many foundered, becoming under-achievers with low (and inaccurate) self esteem, and the other problems of dyslexia, in terms of perception, adroitness, organised thinking and step by step problem solving, which are still a handicap for many.
The diagnosis for dyslexia is also hard to come by, especially with the Govt. policy of allowing schools to force early retirement on their most experienced staff and to recruit a higher proportion of NQT’s and non-qualified teachers in order to reduce their wages bill, for which the schools were now responsible since the LEA’s were no longer the hirers and firers. Hence profiling of pupils with difficulty and disability was falsified by the mis-identification of behavioural problems and educational achievement.
To culminate in allowing politicians such as Graham Stringer to pontificate about education and disability, with no qualification other than their own prejudice upon which to draw, is to demonstrate an indication of how unsuitable such people are to hold office. This is evident when they show such scant respect for those (education chiefs and disability watchdogs/ associations) who are better placed to determine the effect of disabilities such as dyslexia on education, social integration and the drive to enable every child to benefit from opportunities for self development and life-long learning to the best of his or her abilities.
I am a retired schoolteacher, and my eldest daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia at secondary school. Her father, my first husband (deceased) quite probably had it too, but he was an artist and musician – and used his words to write poetry – but couldn’t do form fillling. My daughter has overcome her problems, mostly in later life, largely by her own efforts, and is a top flight cabin crew staff member, frequently obtaining 98% in her periodic refresher courses. All this by a girl of whom a headmistress once told me ‘She won’t amount to anything’!
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The problem here seems to be a lack of reading of the international research of the last decade or more regardig dyslexia. Dyslexia is not a condition, but a shared symptom of an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder, or any combinaton of these issues. Dyslexia is a man made problem and is langauge dependent. The underlying cogntive disorders are clinicallly diagnosed disabilities, and each dyslexic should have the underlying cogntive cause of their dyslexic symprom clinically diagnosed as these real conditons may have more serious symtoms than just dyslexia
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DISLEXIA IS A DISSABILITY FOR ME
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It has been all my life, I do not under stand all that I read and have problems with taking test.
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Hi Thomas,
Sorry for the late reply.
I have, also been dyslexic all of my life, but I was not diagnosed as being dyslexic until i was in my 40s. I have since had the underlying cause of my dyslexic symptom identified and clinically diagnosed as being auditory processing disorder (APD)
I have APD all of my life and it has more serious issues than just dyslexia, as it affects how my brain processes all that my ears hear.
Dyslexia is only about having problems decoding and comprehending the visual notation of speech, also known as the written word. Which means you may have to identify the cause or causes of your dyslexic symptom, and discover how these issues can affect your daily life.
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Im Dislextic and i feel it is a proplem as i havent be able to get on in life because of it . my dislex e r is also a prolem with understanding things i view things different from the (normal person) if there is such a thing as normal.?? i cant work simple things out but what is diffacult for someone i find easy strange…. i once brought clarks factory to a stop because i done the shoe buckles back to front lol …..you become a billy no mates because people think there dealing with one who flew over the cuckoos nest so yes dislex e r is a disabitly
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Elisabeth Commo said: Dyspraxia, a form of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) […]
Actually, DCD is a form of dyspraxia, not the other way around. Specifically, DCD is the developmental form of dyspraxia as opposed to the form that is acquired through stroke, lesions, or brain injury. Have Android, will google!
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Have degree, clinical training. TWAT
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Have Google, do my research. TWAT.
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HI can someone help me please, i have a child age 7, has been in a pre-school since 18months of age due to my ill health. she had early problems eating up to age 3, which caused me a lot of difficulties with certain groups as i was their focal point due to a doctor not been good enough, my daughter eventually was diagnosed as lactose intolerant, and started to eat with the right diet, to see her you would think she was healthy, normal child (which she is) but she has complained since reception year that the noise in school hurt her ears (this concerned me given my ill health). its take a while to get through to hospitals to look further into my childs inability to clearly read & write she so bright in other areas loves history and art. She was diagnosed this year with (APD) Auditory processing disorder, i pay privately for visual student home studies, but seen no improvement with simple phonics, i therefore asked school if they thought she may have dyslexia? but they avoided this questioning even though they could see she was struggling. I am now booked to have a private evaluation of this dyslexia which from reading up on APD is one of the signs apart from others that I’m so glad i don’t see those in my daughter.
The thing is it has not been without years from myself picking up on things and not without trying to get extra tuition thinking it was she was just slight behind her school report shows BELOW AVERAGE.
unitl i find out what stage of dyslexia she has does benefits recognise APD? i understand the ONLY hospital that can truly help my child is Great Ormond Street, London, I’m based derbyshire,.i’ll do what ever it takes to get my daughter the right help, including any benefit that may assist her
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Dyslexia is a disability. IQ is not affected. There are deficits and weaknesses in processing speed, phonological loop (phonetic sounds of words), confusing p and q’s, transposing letters, short-term memory, what is now called ‘working memory,’ ……many dyslexics never learn to read and write, many have significant weakneses in spelling, handwriting, reading…. You mention phonic problems, that is part of dyslexia. It sounds as if she is severely dyslexic, but once you find a good teacher (Davis method really works) she should improve. Dyslexics often defy conventional teaching, and need different methods to learn. Dyslexics are visual learners, and think in pictures. What these children often have a problem with is the connecting words like ‘if’, ‘but,’ ‘is’……they can visualise a house and draw it to understand, but not the connecting words, so they find learning them harder. I myself am classed as very low average IQ on my dyslexic tests, yet, I have gone on to do a psychology degree and clinical training. Mind you, I needed two tutors, dyslexia and dyscalculia (maths…) to help me get trough. There are no stages of dyslexia, but degrees of severity, from mild, moderate, severe. It is on a spectrum, going from bad to good, rather like autistic spectrum disorder. I recommend if you can, gettting her tested by an educational psychologist. It will tell you how bad she is and exactly what her problems are so you can focus on the worst. Good luck.
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Hi Tina
I have been helping to run the APDUK help line for some years now.
There are various forms of APD, the most common are the temporal form which is about not being able to process the gaps between sounds, And when i did the tests thye did not include a gap big enough to process, which explains why i have proplems processing waht is called rapid speech as i can not process the gaps between trhe words. This also why i can not process the gaps between ther sounds others tell me that letters represent in words, and why i can not use phonics, and can not phonetically sound out new words. I need to hear some say the new words while i can also see the words graphic representation or the written word.
The other main form of APD is about having problems with low levels of background noise, and not being able to process specific target sounds. Which can be a problem in many clasrooms and large groups of people. (for me more than 4 people is an unamagable crowd)
APD is a majir cause of rthe dyslexic symptom, which has been highlighted by thge international research of the last decade. The problerm is that the Uk dyslexia industry does not want to help the increased awareness of APD as this would conflcit with it s marketing needs epecially the so called program providers tyhat funs many of the support agencies, and even the diagnosotic processes. So it od all about money rather than trying to help dyslexics, and those who sya have APD as the underlying cause of their dyslexic symptom.
Some rersearch has shown that those who are ableto uase their visual skills to compensatre for their APD issues have found using different coloured fonts and extra spacing when they can use word processors to copy and paste a text. We have used many variations on the APDUK web site to demonstrate hwo many who hav APD use colours, and picitures etc to help preocess and understand text.
Some have suggested that initially childreen can use different colours for each letter, next different coloursd for vowels and consannnats, next differen colours for nouns and verbs, and other parts of speech, next different colours for different phrases, and then where i have got to different colours fo each sentence.
some have suggested to Picture Exchange Comunication System (PECS) systemn of using picture cards for specific task and objects etc, which can help in the early stages.
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@ emma (the rude person): Actually, in the UK, intellectual disability is called global learning disability, learning disability for short. Because of this, specific learning disabilities are known as learning difficulties to avoid confusion. You know, it’s funny how you claim to have a degree, yet you learnt less whilst acquiring it than somebody with multiple cognitive disabilities did with a search engine and no money. What a sorrowful waste of your university fees. *shakes head sadly*
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You know it is funny how you are a complete twat thinking they understand what ‘sic’ google tells them.
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You know, it is funny that a woman is using a word for female genitalia in an unsuccessful attempt to insult me. Please, keep calling me that. It’s very flattering since I can only hope to be half as useful as the twat I entered this world through.
[…] thinking they understand what ‘sic’ google tells them.
Well, I understand it well enough to know that it’s not google [sic] that tells me things, but the websites it links to. What, didn’t you know? Specific learning disabilities count as cognitive disabilities, and since I have more than one… Like I said, wasted university fees. Is your real name Katie Hopkins? You’re just like her with brown matter where most people have grey. Now fuck off, flamer!
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Just for clarification. Dyslexia is man made problem about having problems decoding and recoding a man made communication system the visual notation of speech, or the graphic symbols society chooses to represent the sounds of speech.
There are two types of dyslexia, acquired dyslexia (alexia) which caused by brain injury, stroke, dementia, etc.; and developmental dyslexia which has a genetic origin.
There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia – auditory, visual, and attentional. Which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, a attention disorder, or any combination of these issues can cause the dyslexic symptom.
Which means that all who are classified as being dyslexic need to identify the underlying cognitive / medical cause or causes of their dyslexic symptom.
And Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) replaced the term dyspraxia in 1994 as a result of an international symposium hosted in Cananda. DVD is concerned with developmental motor coordination issues. Acquired motor coordination issues, caused by brain injury, stroke, demetia; are part of Apraxia.
And I would suggest using medical search engine such as PubMed, rather than Google which is more about marketing placements than real medical research.
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Dyslexia is man made problem about having problems decoding and recoding a man made communication system the visual notation of speech, or the graphic symbols society chooses to represent the sounds of speech.
So you’re saying that somebody operated on my brain when I was a baby to cause the issues that I believed arose from having a different neurology? o_0
And Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) replaced the term dyspraxia in 1994 as a result of an international symposium hosted in Cananda. DCD is concerned with developmental motor coordination issues. Acquired motor coordination issues, caused by brain injury, stroke, demetia; are part of Apraxia.
And the words ‘dyspraxia’ and ‘apraxia’ are synonyms of each other. Your point? Oh right, you don’t have one. I suggest you get your information from more than a single source. And don’t assume I see Google results the way Google Inc. wants me to, DuckDuckGo resolves that issue.
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Apraxia has always been about the acquired issues that can cause the motor coordination issues. And dyspraxia used to be about th developmental issues that can cause motor coordination issues. In 1994, there was an international symposium, which changed the official name from dyspraxia to developmetal coordination disorder (DCD).
I would suggest that you begin to use medical research based search engines and not open source engines. both Google and DuckDuckGo are general source engines, and not international research paper specific.
So my point is that you need to catch up with international medical research of the last decade or so, rather then public media impressions of the complex issues,
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Hi Sheogorath,
I was not suggesting that anyone operated on your brain when you were a child.
what I am saying is that the written word is a man made communication system, which can cause problems for those who have various information processing disabilities. So if you like the man made written word communication system is a form of disability discrimination against those who have the various information processing disabilities that can cause the dyslexic symptom.
I am dyslexic and i have a genetic form of auditory processing disorder which amongst other things causes my dyslexic symptom.
This could mean that like me, you could have a genetic based issue that causes your dyslexic symptom, the next step may be to identify what the issue or issues may be.
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Dolfrog, I would suggest getting the relevent degree and clinical training before saying dyslexia or any other type disability, or learning difficulties, are man made. No one knows how both come about. Dyslexia is not just about decoding by the way.
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Emma, dyslexia is only about decoding and recoding the graphic symbols the society chooses to represent the sounds of speech. Any other related issues are part of the underlying clinical conditions that can cause the dyslexic symptom. This is what international research has been identifying over the last decade or so.
The are many universities that are so far behind international research providing bogus degrees mainly based on the marketing needs of one or more of their financial sponsors such as the Orton Gillingham organisation, the Davis organisation, and the UKs BDA. They are only interested in promoting and selling programs, and not interested in those like me who are dyslexic and understanding the issues such as auditory processing disorder which is the cause of my dyslexic symptom.
So if you are dyslexic “What causes your Dyslexia?” or are you just some one who has read some marketing material to get a bogus degree.
you could have a look at the dyslexia research paper collections listed on my research paper web site http://www.dolfrog.org
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Emma, Another way of looking at this is, if we stopped using the visual notion of speech, the written word as a form of human communication then dyslexia would cease to exist. But the underlying cognitive issues such as auditory processing disorders, visual processing disorders, attention disorders and they many associated issues such as memory problems would still exist. Research has also identified that dyslexia is language dependent.
you do not seem to understand what dyslexia really is. i would suggest you read some of the international research of the last decade or so to catch up. You could start with the 2013 Oxford Dyslexia symposium.
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Hi dolfrog, I will look up your papers, but dyslexia is more than just being unable to decode words. The phonological loop is affected, working memory, slow processing speed, poor spelling, poor logical reasoning, non-analytic skills, poor sequencing, poor organisational skills, struggles to remember what has been read, puts letters and numbers the wrong way round, poor concentration, struggles with maths, problems with time and tense, directional confusion, and much more. Dylexics are visual thinkers and most think in pictures. It is on a spectrum like autism with a unique pattern of strengths and weaknesses. There are lots of theories on dyslexia, but none have conclusively proved just what causes it. I have read all the theories and had to study them for my degree. I had to do biology e.g. brain and genetics too.
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HI Emma,
Sounds like you are at the beginning of the journey of understanding dyslexia. Your list of issues is a mixture of conditions, associated conditions and their symptoms. Still some way to go.
You need to go back to basics identifying human sensory information processing, multisensory integration, and memory issues. And go back to identifying the actual problem using a man made communication system which is human language dependent.
You listed a complete muddle of issues which you call dyslexia, which completely wrong. Yes there are independent contributory factors and different underlying cognitive causes which international research calls the cognitive subtypes of dyslexia.
So you need to understand auditory processing disorders, visual processing disorders and attention disorders to start to understand the possible causes of the dyslexic symptom. After this you should consider related working memory issues, and related sequencing issues.
Those who are classified as being dyslexic should have a multi – discipline assessment by a team consisting of an audiologist, an optometrist, and a psychiatrist to assess the possible underlying cognitive cause or causes of the individual dyslexics individual cause of their dyslexic symptom. And from there each dyslexic can focus on their real issues and get away from the bogus marketing options sold by the dyslexia industry.
Sound like you are not qualified to assess and or diagnose any of the possible cognitive causes of the dyslexic symptom, but probably more a qualified remedial program provider.
you could have a look at the program of the 2013 International Dyslexia symposium to help improve your understanding of the issues http://www.oxfordkobe.com/program.html
you may also find some of the other links listed on my dyslexia web page useful to understand the real issues
http://dolfrogslinks.homestead.com/Dyslexia.html
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Dolfrog, I am a clinical psychologist, and dyslexic and dyscalculic. I have all the problems listed. I was tested by an expert.
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Emma,
I have tried to reply earlier but my post seems to be lost in cybersapce.
Unfortunately I have a very low opinion of psychologists, mainly due to their lack of understanding of the real issues. in my experience. if you are dyslexic like me then you need to identify which of the underlying cognitive issues arew causing your dyslexic symptom, and probably more important identify the alternative compensating skills and abilities you may have and have developed to work around the limitiations your real disability imposes on you.
You could also consider a lagal case of professional neglegance against you so called expert for nort recommneding or referring you to the relelvent clinicians to assess and diagnose the underlying cognitive disability that causes your dyslexic symptom, such is the lack of and inter professional approach to these issues, pure greed and ego, by the so called professionals who only want to make money out of dyslexics, and help dyslexics get the proper clinical assessments and diagnosis they need to understand their real issues, and how thye affect their dauily lives.
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Dolfrog, Educational psychologists are the experts to diagnose learning disabilities and learning difficulties. They are the only experts the Universities accept as diagnosing learning difficulties and disabilities. There is no consensus on what causes dyslexia. They believe being premature of at least three months causes it, and I was 3 months premature. There are many theories, but no definitive cause. Educational Psychologists have to study the brain, neurology and biology. They have to have clinical training too, and have qualifications in education.
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Your post demonstrates how professionally negligent psychologists are. The are not experts, but professional incompetants who are decades behind international research. Incompetants not experts.
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Emma
From, my experince, form our sons education, educational psychologists are idiots, and have not a technical clue at to what thye are tasliing about. Full of BS.
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Emma,
Researech has been identifying the muliple combinations of multiple issues that can cause autism, especially in the last decade. idenifying the complex issues such as ADHD, Develpmental Coordination Disorder, Developmental Vebal Dyspraxia, Sensory Processing Disorders, Auditory Processing Disorders, Visual Processing Disorders, and many more issues, and each autistic person will have different variations or combinations of these issues and different severities of each issue. And there has been some investigation of possible gentic links.
Dyslexia is different, dyslexia is about having problems using the writing system society has choosen to represent the sounds of speech. Writing systems are relative new inventions in relation top human development over millions of years, and is not part of our natural skill make up.
There are various cognitive skill deficits / disorders that can cause problems decoding and recoding any form of wrting system which can depend on the orthography, and various local variations of use. We use the latin alphabet writng system and there are variations in the issues that cause the dyslexi saymptom even between the various langauges that use this writing system. Add to which there areew various accents and sometimes international differences using the same langauge.
Some of ther issues you listed earlier have nothingto do wit dyslexia, but more to do wioth some of the underlying causes of the dyslexic symptom, or seperate issues. The problem is that your profession like to incorrectly lump them together because you are not adequately trained to identify the specific complex issues, more amatures making guesses outside the area ofd their proclaimed expertise. Which can be viewed a professional negliagence. So if i were you I would investigate tyhe true nature of the issues you have losted and try to find the correct professionals to provide the most informed advice.
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Emma,
I you are thinking of premature birth as the cause of dyslexia, then you are daft as your colleagues.
The problem seem that you and your colleagues are so far behind international research that you should be classified as professionaly incomptant.
The problem is that dyslexia is not a condition, and your profession is making false claims to maintian your income.
Dyslexia is a symptom and your profession cones in after a clinical diagnosis of the medical condition such as Auditory processing disorder to assess how the medical condition can affect learnin g issues and may cause the dyslexic symptom. So it is your profession that has ideas, pretentions, above it skills and abilities. You are not qualified say to diagnose Auditory Processing Diosorder or ADHD, so you need to come to tyerms with your profdessional limitations.
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Just to add some recent research regarding these issues
Temporal Resolution Ability in Students with Dyslexia and Reading and Writing Disorders
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4297012/
Unstable Representation of Sound: A Biological Marker of Dyslexia
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/8/3500.full
Cognitive subtypes of dyslexia.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18389017
program of the 2013 International Dyslexia Symposisum
http://www.oxfordkobe.com/program.html
you could find more at the CiteULike Developmental Dyslexia research paper sharing library
http://www.citeulike.org/group/12693/library/order/year,,
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Iam writing this because we have just found out my 9yrs old son has
DcD ,,i dont now much about it but google all i can also my son is seeing a
Speech and languge ,,,also go 2a unit in the mornings as a part of school then
Go back 2his own school in the after noon
I have been told 2calim dla ,,, i feel i should not because some people
Think i should not because my son looks like nothing wrong with himthey are
Not in my house in the morning s trying 2get him ready 4school
And trying 2get him ready be4the taxi comes not with me when i try and take
Him 4a haircut and he panicks when he hears the clipers going and iam trying 2expain2them it is not them but just the why he is and ect shoe laces cutting his food brushing his teeth ,zips buttons, and he can repeat himself about 4times because he did not get what i said the first time
There is so much more buti would be here all nite x
I would be so grateful 4anyhelp any1 could offer
Thank u
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Hi Joanne,
sounds like more than Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) which about motor coordination issues. You seem to be be describing various other issues such as Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and the Attention aspect of ADHD, and possibly Auditory Processing Processing Disorder (APD) (a listening disability). Not all disabilities are physical and easy to see, you could have a look at my Invisible Disability research paper web page to find more detailed information to help identify the specific issues you son may have. http://www.dolfrog.org/PM-Invisible-Disabilities.html
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I’ve just been diagnosed with dyslexia and working memory and I’m 29 I’m at university ( which was so hard 2 get in ) had the assessment yesterday I know something was wrong as a child but my teachers didn’t help nor did the school want to pay for the assessment to be done as in thier eyes it was to expensive and they didn’t want to waste money on a LAZY child I was called !!! I could write lots hear how it affects me but I’m not as I don’t wana get judge by others I’ve had it all my life I just want to know if I can get extra help ect
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The next step is to identify the underlying cognitive cause of your dyslexic symptom. There are three cognitive subtypes of developmental dyslexia – auditory, visual, and attentional. Which means that an auditory processing disorder, a visual processing disorder, an attention disorder, or any combination of these issues can cause your dyslexic symptom. I was identified as being dyslexic during my 40s in the 1990s, and clinically diagnosed as having Auditory Processing Disorder ( listening disability) in my late 40s as the underlying cause of my dyslexic symptom. All of these underlying issues have more severe symptoms than the dyslexic symptom.
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everyone will suffer in a different way. conditions like these will not affect everyone in the same way. those who have mild forms of dyspraxia or dyslexia can not judge someone who suffers severely. you can recieve P.I.P or DLA ESA and income support for these conditions. they are medically accepted conditions / disabilities and are a protective characteristic under the 2010 disability act. I feel that ignorance is rife and that people actually need to research before they type silly comments.
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Hi Amy,
I completely agree that all should read the international research research of the last decade or so regarding these issues.
Dyslexia is a shared symptom of multiple underlying medical conditions, which means that the so called professionals who identify individuals as being dyslexic should be referring them on to the medical professionals who are actually trained and qualified to assess and diagnose the medical conditions that can cause the dyslexic symptom.
Dyspraxia is an outdated term, which was superceded by Developmental Coordination Disorder back in 1994 by international researchers.
So the problem is not so much those who may have and live with these issues more the incompetent and inadequately trained medical professionals and politicians who have their own marketing and career agendas, who fail to follow the results of international research regarding these issues of the last decade or so.
And yes you can receive PIP, DLA, ESA for the medical medical conditions that can cause these issues. Sometimes we have to educate those who are making the assessments due to their lack of training of the real medical issues.
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I am dislexic and it is a big problem when taking test. It takes only one word to change the hole meaning of the question ant it hard to spell words right
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Hi thomas,
I am also dyslexic, and auditory processing disorder is the medical / clinical cause of my dyslexic symptom.
You may need to ask the professional who identified your dyslexia to refer you to the correct medical professional, or multi – discipline team of professionals you can clinically assess and diagnose the cause of your dyslexic symptom, and this will help identify the cognitive limitations causing your dyslexic symptom, and the other possible symptoms each of the cogntive subtypes of dyslexia may include.
It will also help identify the alternative compensating skills and abilities you may be able to access and develop to work around your limitations. We are all different, different underlying causes of our dyslexic symptom, and more importantly we have different ways of working around our limitations which others need to understand and accommodate.
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so it is a disability as I am consern
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I am now 75 years old— when I was a child in the the60s dyslexia was not heard of.
In my life I have been a furrier and an engineer. The latter because I married the bosses daughter. It was not until I joined Rotary and had to do a job talk that I found out my problem.
I was having trouble with my talk when my daughter turned round to me and asked to see the notes I was doing for the talk. She is studying for a doctorate in genetics . She said to me Daddy you are dislexic . I did a talk on the fur trade in the 60s which went down very well.
I
Poked for an on line test for dislexia and my score was was 92 out of 100
Dislxeia does happen to be a handicap it had held me back and I have trouble with money, figures and writing letters also reading.
Thsnk god for my iPad with spell check
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I have depression and anxiety
And dyspraxia and dyscalculia and dylexia too
Would i get anything for it
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Hi Dawn.
I don’t have the problems you have!
I do have sleep apnea which is serious also I find it hard to concentrate when reading.
There is no cure for dyslexia.
The only thingI find with this problem is that people like us are very clever because we find ways around difficult questions so as to not show we have a problem.
People who say dyslexia is a myth are out of their head.
The Labour MP who said it was down to poor education was only right in one way because some of the educators are not up to scratch.
It’s aeonderful thing to have an iPad as I can dictate my response
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In the US, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discusses how a disability affects the individual, specifically if it interferes with their “life activities.” Dyslexia is currently evaluated on a case-by-case basis and most dyslexic individuals are considered to have some impairment in learning, reading and/or writing.
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