[Wolves] I've just been reading wlug blog exerpts

[Stephen Parkes]

Andy Wootton wrote:
> David Morley wrote:
> 
>> ... I personally wouldn't last two minutes
>> in a university but does that mean I can't learn?  I suffer from a
>> form of dyslexia where by I can read individual letters but I struggle
>> getting them to make words.  This means that the speed of a formal
>> setting is such that I can't keep up, this then means I am forever
>> playing catch up and never can because there simply isn't the time...
>>
> My ex-neighbour's son has dispraxia which is a close relative of 
> dyslexia. He has gone to Imperial College because they specialise in 
> supporting people with such difficulties. I wonder what they do 
> differently?

just by being aware that these disabilities exist they are doing a lot 
;-)  in the case of dyslexia you get a laptop and extra time to do 
assignments and in exams as a very minimum for more severe varients 
students can get extra help including all lectures on tape, 
transcriptions of these tapes and a helper to take notes during the 
lectures.

With disphraxia unless the student has difficulty in talking (verbal 
dispraxia) there isn't a lot of help that can be offered to university 
students.  There should be a lot more help at school for these students 
as the typical school environment can be very cruel to children who 
can't catch a ball or walk in a straight line.  One of the difficulties 
in dianosing this in school is that most boys go through several clumsy 
stages in their life when the body and the brains image of the body 
don't match so most boys with disphraxia are just seen as clumsy.  In 
girls it's easier to spot as they don't seem to have so many clumsy 
periods in their life.

I studied A level chemistry and physics with two dyslexic students 
neither of which was diagnosed until they where 17/18 so it was all new 
to them.  Between them they formed their own branch of science because 
their formulas bore no relation to known science ;-)  Once they had the 
help they needed they both passed and one went onto university.

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sparkes
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