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Subject: frustrated

Author:
rochelle (tired of trying)

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Date Posted: 00:33:31 07/21/09 Tue

just struggling to see any light with pt coarse i trying to finish. fail evey coarse i done about ready to walk away from this coarse found out i was dyslexic at 30. every other student got cert i still doing it. i feel stuff i read dosnt stick end up spending hours on computer getting not much done how do dylexic people make it to the end of study i struggling.

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Nicole
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Date Posted: 02:00:29 07/21/09 Tue

I have lived with Dyslexia all my life (30y old), but have managed to get my degree and am still studying. The trick is to give up on 'traditional' methods of study and find your own system. As a dyslexic person I gave up trying to make sence of journal articals and complicated text books and invested in a screen reader. When I was a kid I found that 'paired reading' was best for me, so now I get my computer to read REALLY SLOWLY and read along with it. (Try free software for the Blind like NVDA). I scan all my notes and use the software to read them, and I get the computer to read back the work I am trying to write too. I Also get so frustrated when the words swim agound and the sentences merge to make a muddy, gobbldy-gook noise in my head. When this happens I draw pictures of the consepts i am trying to learn. If I am studying anatomy, for example, I give up trying to memorise the latin names and DRAW the image and make 'picture words' (i.e the arm bone is called the humorus. I draw a picture of a person tickeling their underarm, and for some reason it sticks, for years). Just because this works for me does not mean that it will work for you. Just give yourself time and space to figure out what helps you. GOOD LUCK