spelling and Dyscaluia - Learning Disorders Message Board

waiting for 1 · 01-18-2005, 01:29 PM

Hi, i just had a question about spelling and dyscaluia . i am smart but what holds me back is two thing spelling and dyscaluia.
1.spelling. its about anything more then three sylibles<..........see LOL i just freak out and can't spell it. but i can read fine i mean i can read really hard words and every thing but what holds me back is the spelling.
2.the dyscaluia-my teachers never understood, in high school of how i could learn really hard math so quick but....... i still don't know to count my times tables. it ****es me off because i learend so much these past three year how to count change and every thing i have came a long way. but once i get thouse two things down i will be fine again.
any help would be wonderfull thank you

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sammieP · 01-19-2005, 02:26 PM

I can count change, add in my head (but using my fingers!), take away (again using my fingers but if its alot a calculator has to lend a helping hand), i can read well but not aloud only in my head, i struggle with stupid little words and big ones to but not as much, my writeing is readable when i concentrate, and i cant for the life of me do my x table - apart from the 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's.

I have dyslexia and dyscalclia and i am in my DREAM job, it took longer than it should have but i did it.

Im not sure i will ever know my x table and i dont use it that much now, i went to night class for 2 years whilst i was in college and the only thing i really couldnt learn was my tables.

Just wanted to let you know that, not sure if it helps but im here if you need anything, we are going or have been through the same thing so we know how each other feels

waiting for 1 · 01-19-2005, 08:46 PM

i am going through the same thing. i went to the college today to sigh up and i did ok but i have to take the placement test tomorrow. i am so scared i am studying right now to makes sure i have learned something. the career i am going in to involved spelling and i am scared but i have to do this non of my family has gotten past high school like they did not even finsh high school. so i am pushing my self real hard. this is not about the schooling, this is about getting there its NY and its snowing like hell. but i have to deal with it and just goes with it.
so whats your dream job. My dream job is this office mangement.

sammieP · 01-20-2005, 02:16 PM

Mines a veterinary nurse, hence why big words pose a problem!

You can do it if you set your mind to it, i have a spell master - which is like a calculator but it spells the word for you, its really helpfull but not with the scientific words we use so thats a bit of a problem! Had you thought of getting one of these?

waiting for 1 · 01-21-2005, 03:14 AM

I have never herd of one of them. they sound very nice though something i would find of use. so i went to the college yesterday took the test. and i was like 25 mintues late, so at the end shes like you did not finsh the reading and comprehection (if you don't finsh it it means you are slow) so when and if i get it i am not going to be in the normal room i am ****ed.

i did all that hard work and studying only for them to say, will see monday. so i will see if i am a college student then.
whats new with you? and i feel that if i don't use that tool that you where telling me i will not use my brain a lot harder. if (students) would see a tool like that in college they would laugh at me hard core. so whats new with you.