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Author:
Ann
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Date Posted: 13:09:10 07/31/07 Tue
In reply to:
Shelly
's message, "grad school and frustrated" on 19:36:40 07/19/07 Thu
I am a college professor and the mother of an 18 year old bright, dyslexic son. We were fortunate enough to be able to send our son to the best school on the east coast during his elementary and middle school years. One of the things he was taught was that some people are unkind, rude, self-absorbed, but most are ignorant, and this will give him the opportunity to educate about dyslexia. So, when the intstructor in his advanced placement english class pulled him aside and told him, that due to his accomodations, he couldn't enroll, my son told him that, with all due respect, dyslexia does not negatively impact intelligence and if the instructor would focus on teaching, he would deal with his dyslexia. He proceeded to earn an A in the class. View these people as educated in their field of expertise, but not educated in dyslexia. As a professor, my experience is most are ONLY educated in their field, have been exposed to Bloom's taxonomy as their only information on education in general and not much else. You can help them understand or ignore their ignorance, either way, don't let the (fill in the blank) get you down.
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