Subject:  so glad to see I am not alone! |
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Beka
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Date Posted: 12:51:50 09/27/06 Wed
I am so glad to see that I am not alone....I have a dyslexic son who is in his first year of college (age 19) and he is SO terribly frustrated.They promised all sorts of help, some of which he has gotten, but in a paper he recently did, "they" did not catch ANY of his grammar and punctuation mistakes...and THEY are the experts! He has a chance to redo it, but the teacher said to him "what is your problem, you've had grammar since the first grade".
She is aware of the problem, but doesn't seem to get it.
So now, of course, he is very frustrated and feeling quite stupid, which we have fought against for so long.
He said today.."I don't know why I ever thought I could get a college degree, there is no way"....and he has only been in school for five weeks.
Does anyone know what I can say to him? I have been supporting him the best way I can, but eventually he is going to have to do this for himself, and I have no clue how to help him emotionally.
Thanks for letting me vent....we are all there at some point. Someone said to me recently, "just be thankful that he is not blind, or deaf, or in a wheelchair.....I agreed, but then thought...if he was, at least they would know what they were dealing with! I don't expect a teacher to say "what is wrong with you, you were born with eyes, why can't you see"!
Beka
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