overcome dyslexia

Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

It’s a great book insightful and great for all ages…I just started diving into it and it sure is looking to help me out alot!!! I write more to yall when I finish reading the book or when something really pokes out at me!!! I hope yall can check out this book … I just picked up my copy at the local Barnes and Noble, it only costed like $15s!!! Check it out!!! It might help yall!!!

i want to over come this problem soooooo much i can read very well my problems lie in spelling and puctuation i go to lessons (verry boring)!!!!! and hope that my exam results pick up

but im not going to get any better
even though i still have to ask people which way letters and numbers face sometimes, i read really slow and reading outloud in front of people is one of my biggest fears, i really do think i have overcome it
and my teachers are starting to realize this too
yay
no more “inclusion” classes for me
lets hope it stays that way

I am going to try glasses with Irlen lenses. It’s a fairly controversial method, and the jury is still out on whether it works at all or not, but I have done a bit of research and I think at the very least it is worth a shot. I won’t be going into it expecting a miracle… just keeping an open mind. Unfortunately I can’t afford that kind of assessment and glasses right now, so I’ll have more to report on that when I can.
I am currently a university student, which really could be going better, but I feel that things are going to pick up now (my dyslexia was picked up later in life as well). My university provides and all printed materials in an alternative format for me. They put the text on CD-Rom, and I use a program called ReadPlease to read it. This program has a freeware version that you can legally download of the net. To use it you cut and paste text that you need to read into it, and it will read it out loud to you while highlighting each word so you can follow along.
From experience I would strongly suggest trying it as it really works for me, and lets me actually take in and remember what I am reading.

I’m dyslexic, and i have overcompensated so much, that the problem wasn’t identified until my junior year of highschool, and even then, the child study team did not believe it, so my mom had to have me independantly tested. I have never had accomadations in my life, or an IEP. I took several honors and AP classes in highschool. I graduated with a GPA of 3.7, and recieved a scholorship of about $22,ooo for college. I may be horrible at spelling and grammer, and I may constantly transpose the words in my sentences, but I am living proof that dyslexia has nothing to do with one’s intelligence level. If you would like any help at all, like tips as to what has helped me study throughout the years and such, just let me know, and I’d be glad to share.