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Dan Dixon
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Date Posted: 07:17:12 08/22/04 Sun
I have suspected that my oldest daughter has dyslexia since she was about 5. She is now 18 and about to enter college. I have always avoided having her officially diagnosed because I wanted to avoid any stigma, but I now believe it is time to change that. I will give some history in a minute, but let me start with a question: Where do I go, or to whom do I go to get her tested and to get an official diagnosis? The university she will be attending will make accommodations (the only accomodation is additional time on timed tests) if she has an "official" diagnosis.
History: In kindergarten, she was very excited about reading and language, but as soon as she actually started reading she became very discouraged and had great difficulty learning to read. To this day she is an extremely slow reader. Her spelling is AWFUL. She is capable of mispelling the same word in four different ways in the same paragraph. She is incredibly tenacious. Despite the slow pace at which she reads, she graduated high school a member of the national honor society, and received numerous academic scholarships. Her math scores on the SAT were in the top 1% for women, but her verbal scores were in the 50% range. After reviewing the analysis of her scores I realized that she had only answered about half of the questions in the reading section. Her accomplishment has been by sheer force of will. She studies harder, but mostly LONGER than any of her peers. When she received reading assignments in high school, she would be up until very late for days or weeks at a time in order to complete them. She has been admitted to a very competitive program, biomedical engineering, at the University of Cincinnati. I know (as an engineer, myself) that the program she is in will be challenging for everyone, but fear that her slow pace of reading may be an insurmountable challenge if she is not given some accommodation.
Any information about where or how to go about having her tested, or any other comments would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free to email or call if that is more convenient for you.
Thanks in Advance,
Dan Dixon
dan@TLAser.com
937.602.9748
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