| Subject: Re: my friend might be dislexic |
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Keith
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Date Posted: 22:27:43 01/06/11 Thu
In reply to:
melissa
's message, "my friend might be dislexic" on 14:38:40 01/04/11 Tue
This is very common for a person with a learning disability. The learned what they were taught, to think low of themselves.
What had kept me from feeling such ways is that I realized there were aspects of my life that contradicted what my academic grads were telling me and everyone else. I realized when I am not being tested that no one realized or though I was any less intelligent, but in fact many thought I was more intelligent. Especially when we would have long deep conversations. I was able to also recognize when being taught something new while in a group, I was able to learn just as quick as everyone else, if not quicker than much of the people in the group, and all the people in the group. This is the case when not doing school work such as sports, work, boy scouts, American Red Cross certifications and so on.
This is also true with IQ test. When testing a person on an IQ test, it is understood that a persons intelligence is not something that fluctuates but should be consistent across the board with all test. Yes there may be minor deviations, but only minor deviations. When the deviations are greater than a standardized deviation, it demonstrates were a person may have a learning disability affecting them.
This does not mean the person is any less intelligent in that area. What it is doing is demonstrating a person strengths and weakness as far as how they process information.
This is something that all teachers are taught when earning their Ed degree. The problem is they learn it but few seldom apply it. Instead they force a student to learn the way they want to teach, rather than the different ways students learn and demonstrate their knowledge of the subject. This is in reference to we all have strengths in how we demonstrate what we know. For a student who is not being tested along the lines of their strengths, can create a test that is negatively bias to that student. And, because of this, the test is designed to test a students disability rather than their knowledge.
In essence, it is very similar to the Jim Crow Laws. These test are designed to fail people with learning disabilities, over actually testing what they know.
If you read some of my other postings you will see many recommendations that I made in learning how to accommodate myself as a student as well as helping students learn and understand much better in school while working as a substitute teacher.
You can write a letter to your Senator or Congress Man requesting all the the disability laws. And, one you read them, you can write a complaint to the Justice Department, so they can investigate them. I could recommend going through the Education department over any other, that is because they understand more about how people can be discriminated through education over say the Disability Department.
These laws are the Disability Act, The Rehabilitation Act, The Equal Rights Amendment (equal protection under the law), Freedom Of Information Act (for requesting any information from the schools, Public Law 94-142 and Public Law 99-457 (these laws pertain to students in public school, and which holes public schools more accountable than secondary schools). The public laws are even more important to address due to the young mans age. After all the schools may try to argue he is or will be an adult soon at the age of 18, though I believe public schools and the laws apply up to the age of 21. I say this because I have seen students in public school up to 21, though it may be a rare situation, it still happens. The Public Laws also state that the public schools have a legal responsibility to seek out students with disabilities, test them so to find out were their disabilities affect the student, and to create the least restrictive mental, and/or physical learning environment possible. All the laws also point out that a student should be accommodated both in how they are lectured and tested as well as by other means deemed reasonable and necessary for them to achieve equally.
Feel free to contact me, and this is true for anyone who would like to ask me any questions and I will do what I can. Even though I am 44 at the time, I am still struggling with schools to receive the accommodations I had and do need as a student.
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