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Subject: dating an adult with dyslexia


Author:
Ellen Bourque (optimistic)
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Date Posted: 10:09:21 11/06/11 Sun
I am dating an intelligent, successful professional adult (61 yrs) and am finding his disability is severely damaging our relationship.
I want to help this person that I love, but I don't know where to begin. Although he acknowledges his dyslexia, jokes about it often, he minimizes the effects its' having on our relationship.
I am an educator who teaches ESL and I am ready, willing, and able to commit time to helping him and us.

Suggestions?
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Subject: Participants Needed for NYC Dyslexia Research


Author:
DyslexiaStudyNY
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Date Posted: 21:58:57 01/19/12 Thu
Are you interested in participating in research about DYSLEXIA?

Language researchers at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center are looking for:
• People who ONLY HAVE dyslexia
• People who HAVE dyslexia as well as another learning disability or multiple learning disabilities (ADD/ADHD, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc.)
• People who DO NOT have dyslexia, but have a PARENT, SIBLING, or CHILD with dyslexia

Information about the Research:
• This study involves mainly verbal and reading tasks
• Duration: Approximately 2 hours
• Location: Brooklyn College

Eligibility:
• Age criteria: between 18 and 35
• Language: learned English before age 5

Compensation:
• Individuals who participate will be compensated $20 ($10/hour)

Please email rel-haddad@gc.cuny.edu if you are interested or would like more information
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Subject: i have had dyslexia for 67 years


Author:
daph (anlezark)
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Date Posted: 23:36:39 04/09/12 Mon
I live with this awful thing for 67 years that's how old i am,never could get good jobs my main thing is spelling, unless i can"t rember it i am hopeless, i have run business work in all areas but the spelling held me back, is it to late for me?daph xx
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Subject: Reading?


Author:
Christine Grace (Inquizitive)
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Date Posted: 21:23:50 04/05/12 Thu
I noticed many adults with dyslexia are using text-to-speech programs for reading things online. I downloaded a free one, and was frustrated that the computer voice didn't make normal conversational fluctuations in speech patterns (such as the fluctuation of a question when written), it made it very difficult for me to pick up what was being said.
Which, I'm not an Auditory learner in the first place; I'm a Visual-Spatial learner. It kind of surprised me that the text-to-speech was the most popular alternative as a reading assistance because I thought most dyslexics where Visual-Spatial and not Auditory.

Does anyone use any other type of reading aids besides the text-to-speech programs, or at least knows a more advance one that does proper conversational fluctuations and pauses?
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Subject: Dyslexic learning languages


Author:
Lara H (interested)
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Date Posted: 05:12:52 03/18/12 Sun
Heya, as a dyslexic i find it hard learning new words. i really want to get to grips with a language this year, but i have have some real trouble with rememebering.
Any ideas? Is there any language based course tailered to dyslexics?
Lara
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Subject: depretion and dyslexia


Author:
naomi
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Date Posted: 01:56:38 04/11/12 Wed
well i am dyslexic and i find dyslexia and depresion gose hand in hand it afects school life and if school isent stresful anuff for a normal kid throw in dyslexia and you get a mess i find i cant remember what i read but i know i read it i often right down notes then read bake and say to myself WTF this is sooo scrambled i cant pull out info fast and cant do annything under presher i find myself crying alot in class over nuthing but the fact i cant think clearly in a crowded inviorment and i can work my butt off and get no resolts you start to feel hope is lost just give up whats the point.....but in reality its the schools fault they wand everyone to fit in a certain shape but some kids dont and thoughs kids are labled dumb and fail but when i think of it we are all controled by the goverment kids get put in the prison called school so the parents can work and pay the goverment by paying school bills and other bills kids when their old anuf to work go straight out of school into the working sosiety they have babies and their kid go through the ciycle of paying the rich and in most cases strugling themselfs to get buy is this fair the world was made for all of us and yet few people cuntrol it so i say NO no to the school not to being told im just not good anuf no im going to live off the land and not pay taxes not give in to shit because if you folow people like them your handing your life away when i get older im gona send them a meseg they wont forget >:)
Subject: Help with getting a diagnosis of Dyslexia.


Author:
Jennifer (:'()
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Date Posted: 22:59:31 11/19/11 Sat
Hello, My name is Jennifer. I am 25 yrs old and I live in Gettysburg, Pa. I have had severe struggles with reading when I was younger. Academics have been extremely hard. I have managed to complete my Associates degree this past June after 4 long years. I started at a University this year and have been noticing my academic struggles getting worse or maybe they are showing up more bc of the demanding course work. Almost as if Im regressing. I have been having more problems spelling. Simple words. Words I should know. Im switching i's and e's around. Leaving letters out. Trying to spell the words the way I pronounce them. I even read words like their spelled which has been embarrassing when I read aloud and make a noticeable mistake in front of my peers. I have also been doing assignments wrong because I dont "read" the questions right. I feel as though someone has changed the question after I turned in my paper or test. My memory has always been bad, but is getting worse bc I have to be very selective that I feel like I cant retain all this information. This has been taking a toll on my relationship because I cant remember centimental things about our previous experiences unles he "jogs" my memory. Still, I cant remember everything. I have had these issues before, but never this bad. I feel as though Im falling apart.
I want to get tested to see if I possibly have dyslexia. I just dont know where to go for a health provider in regards to specifically diagnosing dyslexia in adults? I dont want some doctor who is not going to take this seriously. I was overlooked throughout my younger years in school. Finally diagnosed with ADD when I was 19 and now Im starting to think there is more to this picture. I want a clear and acurrate diagnosis. Im mentally and emotionally drained from all of the problems I have to overcome on a daily basis. Ive been overcoming obsticals my entire life and Im exhausted. I just want a answer so I can come to terms if this is what I have and get the support I need from my family.
Thank you
-Jennifer
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Subject: When your Farther doesn't want to know


Author:
Victoria Williams (:))
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Date Posted: 07:37:36 03/22/12 Thu
I'm 24 years and spent most of my childhud in NZ. I've taken some tests thats say if you get 10 questins wrong out of 30 your Dyslexia.

I got all of then wrong. I was crying for a few minutes. I've been told all my life by my Dad that I never try thats why I'm no good at school. He was Shocked when I got 100% in my drving licence theary test. I thought He must think I'm not very bight. I started learning how to help myself at seconary school as my parents where not helping me out. Although my Mum tried bless her. I watched progams on how to balence out my brain.

I started playing the drums and going to Ballet lesions and focusing on things I'm good at like Design and cooking. I intsantly saw an inprovment in my work. I was one of the top students in my Clothing desgin class. I'm abnormaly creative. I dream of things every night some creazy ideas or so intence that i have to write them down but most I can just smile about and keep to myself. No-one will ever truely understand how incredible my brain really is. I think the only chance I had to do well was when I was provided with a reader in my Exams. My College could only provide me with a reader for two terms. When I found out that i could no longer have a reader my heart sunk, it was like I had lost all of the new hope that I had finely been given. I was 16 at this stage. Now that i understand how I work and know more about my condtion I've come to realised I'm very blessed to have a such a gift that has put me through hell and back.
All I can say is if your Child has Dyslexia the best thing you can do for them to to try to undersatnd it. I think this web site is fantastic we need more suport like this. :)
Subject: need help


Author:
lovelylady (shame)
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Date Posted: 14:02:42 03/05/12 Mon
Hi, not sure what say, feeling a little shame i am in my fortieths and my spelling is real bad. i live in london and i was just wondering if they is a support group with people that dyslexia to help. today i had do some planning i just messed it up i feel so shame no at work knows iam dyslexia. not sure what do felling sad.
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Subject: understanding rhythm


Author:
rick
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Date Posted: 08:14:39 02/29/12 Wed
i'm a 46 year old male. that has dylexia in the last few years i decide to learn to play guitar. but i'm having trouble with rhythm part it seems that i have no timing. is there anything out there that might help me. i have tried something but no help.
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Subject: Book


Author:
Bonita Thomson, Vicki Goodwin
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Date Posted: 12:48:16 03/10/12 Sat
Please note that a new edition of our book: Making Dyslexia Work for You, arrived on the bookshelves in Nov 2011. Material that was on CDROM is now on-line: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415597562/
Subject: adult dyslexic with adults group of dyslexia scotland


Author:
carol reid (:))
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Date Posted: 14:28:36 03/07/12 Wed
hi there looking to chat with some of the adult group we were talking about chat rooms and forums at march meeting this is where the forum is

Carol
Subject: NYC Dyslexia Study: Participants Needed


Author:
DyslexiaStudyNY
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Date Posted: 11:08:28 03/07/12 Wed
Are you interested in participating in research about DYSLEXIA?

Language researchers at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center are looking for:
• People who ONLY HAVE dyslexia
• People who HAVE dyslexia as well as another learning disability or multiple learning disabilities (ADD/ADHD, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, etc.)
• People who DO NOT have dyslexia, but have a PARENT, SIBLING, or CHILD with dyslexia

Information about the Research:
• This study involves mainly verbal and reading tasks
• Duration: Approximately 2 hours
• Location: Brooklyn College

Eligibility:
• Age criteria: between 18 and 35
• Language: learned English before age 5

Compensation:
• Individuals who participate will be compensated $20 ($10/hour)

Please email rel-haddad@gc.cuny.edu or call 347-446-7838 if you are interested or would like more information
Subject: very very basic computer skills


Author:
suzanne ross (help)
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Date Posted: 05:40:37 11/08/11 Tue
Hello ,
I am one of those people diagnosed with Dyslexia in their thirtys, i am now fifty three and the computer age has just passed me by.
I use a Pc every a day for internet resurch and E-mail.

My problem is no matter how many times I am shown by well meaning people the following remain a total mistery to me-


filing anything in a folder, making a folder,. detaching and attaching anything , using anything at all for letters ,lists or any writen work other than E mail.

I print off every thing just becase its the only way I know I have it !!!!

Does anyone know of a teaching astablishment which specilizes in the very!!!!! basic adult computer skills?
i donot mind learning along side children if there is no one who can help from the adult computer world.thank you Suzanne UK.
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Subject: how to learn


Author:
syahiran (question)
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Date Posted: 12:18:17 01/09/12 Mon
hello everyone, i'm 20 years old. from malaysia. i thinks i was dyslexia before, because i have all the symtoms show in the bolliwood movie, taare zamer par. i can't diff between d and b, p and q, can't read well, my hand writing very bad, and so on. but now i realized about that, and i try to make a change of my life, and study hard. i relized that when i'm in 15years old. now i'm university student, so i want to ask someone. How dyslexics learn to understand what they study? my brain so hard to understand new thing.how dyslexics study smart to get succes in thier exam. thanks.

-syahiran
-malaysia
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Subject: Depressed and low self esteem about dyslexia


Author:
Lara H (sad)
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Date Posted: 12:11:39 01/18/12 Wed
I guess my dyslexia never bothered me that badly before I came to uni. My mum has told me it did when i was alot younger but i don't really remember.

I am just tired and frustrated by it. I work really hard at uni, get all the help offered to me by the support services, spend ages on my essays, work ten times harder than all my friends, spend all my time in my room working and still don't get the marks i want. I have asked my lecturers for help but there is little they can do.

I just feel like its impacted on my self esteem massively. I have no faith in my ability any more. When I get bad marks I get so upset because I have huge goals and ambitions for the future.

I just think, I work so hard and get help, yet still don't get great marks. I feel like there must be something fundamentally wrong with me, sometimes even that I am not as intelligent as my friends (they get good marks so easily, with so much less work than me).

I am now in my final year and have started looking at getting a job in my area. However, every job I look at requires lots of reading, or writing, or presenting (i get confused). I just feel like i am lacking all the skills that employers would want.

I used to be more positive about it, but now its all faded and I just want to be able to achieve like the people around me. I want to be able to get out of uni what I put into it, rather than constantly not feeling good enough.
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