Dyslexia or just dumb?
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Yeah right, of course you could, I believe you...
You don't have to, personally I don't care. I have a job, my own home cars etc. Did I do well at school? Not really. Can I spell without the aid of a computer? Not really... yet somehow I am above and beyond the top end of that chart in terms of anual salary.
Ask yourself this... when have you ever known government funded research to give a good representation of the truth?
Are you a professional footballer?
Nope I have the football skills of a goat. But Im pretty good with SharePoint.
Also Swifty, your signature always keeps my attention for far to long. Love it tbh.
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Well done, but you are in the minority.
It is not the only research that draws the same conclusion, government funded or not. I chose that particular one because it provides simply presented, understandable data.
I still think its wrong. I have no proof but I am not going to spend my afternoon trawling the web for figures which are sceptical at best. What I am going to do is walk two minutes to Fenchurch Street station sit on the train and go to sleep.
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Just let me jump in here.
You cannot fake it because the tests are setup so that within minutes the assessor would know.
In my last job I worked with an assessor and when I said 'Surely there is some clever person who could fake this test?' she just laughed.
My youngest did very well at school and got 3 distinctions at College but we knew there wasn't something quite right about her.
At around 15 she was getting into a lot of trouble with teachers and when I challenged her she said they wouldn't tell her how to spell words or repeat stuff.
We had her tested and she was very dyslexic so the first thing the school did was order the teachers to answer her questions and she ended up with a total of 14 GCSE's.
At College an accident happened one day when she used a blue pen instead of a black pen and suddenly the words became clearer.
She was then allowed to use blue pen, blue text on the screen and blue overlays when reading.
Some of you may be interested in her University dyslexia test just to show what goes on -
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They can pretend but they can't get past an assessor - very big difference.
Whilst I have nothing to add to the thread at the moment, I did find that document to be quite informative, so thank you for posting it.
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And that's because dyslexia isn't just about spelling and writing which 99% of the posters in this thread think it's about.
There is a lot of misinformation around, there is no correlation between dyslexia and inteligence. I'm pretty sure I am not dyslexic even though my spelling is poor, although my dad probably is (not diagnosed though). Surely the increase in kids being diagnosed an 'statemented' has more to do with better diagnoses of the condition than in the past.
Exactly, unfortunately some people are just too - well you know - but then quite happy to throw the "dumb" label on other people ...
I love being able to type and spell to the best of my ability, what I absolutely hate is text speak. or rather, people that use it all the time and shorten words that are so short they re-compose the word and it end's up being 1 letter shorter.
My science is better than my Maths, English though, I managed to get B's in school in Science, but was graded D in maths.
My science is better than my Maths, English though, I managed to get B's in school in Science, but was graded D in maths.
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I am a diagnosed dyslexic, but I went through all of school and most of uni before being diagnosed and got no help. I also scored very very poorly in the dyslexic sensitive tests but highly in the others.
It didn't get picked up until a dyslexic lecturer picked up on it when I explained I was having trouble with my Dissertation and telling him that it was distracting trying to read black on white with all the research I had to do. I was also having other problems. I got set up with numerous tests and finally diagnosed dyslexic, too late to do much about it, but at least now I had a good explanation.
According the the physcologist who tested me my other skills had carried me thus far (not particularly high grades, but high enough to get into university) but they couldn't carry me anymore due to how much harder the work was.
So because of the late diagnosis I have a 2-2 degree (when I know I could do better) and some pretty weak A Levels and above average GCSEs to back me up. No good jobs in my field will take me because of my low UCAS points and so I've had to go into retail, which I'm not knocking, just makes it pretty pointless going to uni, unless you count the fact it matured me quite well.
So, DYSLEXIC here. Do I win a prize?
It didn't get picked up until a dyslexic lecturer picked up on it when I explained I was having trouble with my Dissertation and telling him that it was distracting trying to read black on white with all the research I had to do. I was also having other problems. I got set up with numerous tests and finally diagnosed dyslexic, too late to do much about it, but at least now I had a good explanation.
According the the physcologist who tested me my other skills had carried me thus far (not particularly high grades, but high enough to get into university) but they couldn't carry me anymore due to how much harder the work was.
So because of the late diagnosis I have a 2-2 degree (when I know I could do better) and some pretty weak A Levels and above average GCSEs to back me up. No good jobs in my field will take me because of my low UCAS points and so I've had to go into retail, which I'm not knocking, just makes it pretty pointless going to uni, unless you count the fact it matured me quite well.
So, DYSLEXIC here. Do I win a prize?