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Ashley
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Date Posted: 16:57:33 10/08/12 Mon
In reply to:
Julie
's message, "Need to talk?" on 10:24:35 09/28/12 Fri
I was diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school and I am currently a senior in high school with a 504 plan which gives my extra time on tests and not to count off on miss spellings. I have had several phoenix classes early on in my education therefore, I have had help in working with my dyslexia but still suffer for struggles in a classroom.
One of my struggles is trying to take notes. A lot of my teachers usually create power points for their students to copy from but I always had trouble keeping up with the teacher. I have learned to only copy down the main points from each slide and after class to recopy my notes and ask for a friends notes to understand and memorize what we did in class. Its hard for my to copy notes and pay attention to the teacher at the same time. I have the hardest time with the teachers who require their students to take notes from their verbal lectures. It is impossible for me to catch and write down every important point in the lecture; once i write down one point I have missed three or four other points. Without written words to copy from I miss spell vocabulary, locations and other important words. Also, my notes become choppy and confusing through a lecture. All my points are jumbled up because i missed so many and I can not understand what I have written down because of all the miss spelled words.
Another problem I struggle with in class is reading aloud. Whenever I read aloud I stumble over simple words, miss pronounce complex words, loss my place easily and end up rereading parts, my face becomes extremely red because I am so embarrassed with my poor reading skills and when its over I am so ashamed about my reading in front of the entire class I loss all my concentration for the rest of that period. In some cases, when the teacher goes in order and I know when I read I will read ahead to my part so I can sound out harder words, understand the structure of the passage so I will read more fluently, and prepare myself for reading. But, when I do this I miss what others have read and get behind in class because I have to go back and reread what I missed. Sometimes when I am lucky a friend will be near by who helps me out when I get stuck but the embarrassment is still there.
Another one of my struggles is group assignments. I have always been nervous around people I do not know well because I can have hard times communicating; I know what I want to say but when I go to say it its ether comes out wrong or jumbled. So in group assignments I am always extremely quiet and i feel useless because I know I can help but I am just to afraid to speak up. Also, when there is reading involved it takes me ten times longer to read the passage and understand what it is saying which puts me behind the group and again I feel useless. The most recent partner assignment I did was on a poem we had to read then answer questions and write down why each answer choice was wrong or right. By the time it took me to read the poem twice and still not understand it my partner had read the poem and took notes on each stanza. I was too embarrassed to say I needed more time to read so I said I was ready to move onto the questions. All throughout the questions I did not understand any of it, I was so ashamed I could not help and my partner had to do all the work, I tried to reread the poem when my partner was writing stuff down but it was no use, I was too embarrassed to concentrate.
A more minor problem I face is others seeing my poor spelling. Because notes are hard for me to take I have learned to read ahead in the textbook and take notes form it to understand what we will talk about in the next class. But other students in my class has noticed this and ask me to see my notes so the can add to there notes. I am always afraid to say yes because I know I missed spelled words, used bad grammar, and have terrible hand writing but I feel bad to say no. Some as they copy my notes the always ask what this, what does this mean, what does that say, ect. A lot of the people are nice and ignore my mistakes but there is always one that points out all my mistakes to me and makes me feel bad.
There are more minor struggles I face but I talked about the ones that effect me the most. Hope this helps with your paper.
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