<p>Hi everyone. I’ve never posted on this forum, though I’ve been hanging around since my D started the application process in the fall. The wisdom has been invaluable and I never felt I had anything worthwhile to add which wasn’t already being expressed better by others.</p>
<p>In this area, however, given that my D is high iq dysgraphic, dyslexic/ 2300’s Sat, high gpa student, I think I can say that stories like the above are exactly why we pointed our daughter towards schools with proven track records for accomodations for dyslexics. Very important.</p>
<p>It is difficult enough to leave home, do the college level work and work about five times as hard as everyone else without having your integrity questioned, without the added hassle of fighting for what is legally right. The truth is that it is not only uneducated bigotted people who have issues with dys-kids…as can be evidenced by posts all over this website. </p>
<p>When she said Brown, we said talk to some kids and parents. When she said Yale, we said talk to some kids and some parents. (websites are not recommendations but advertisements!) And so she did.</p>
<p>In the end, she didn’t choose a top tier school ala USNWP. She did choose a top flight school in terms of sciences and how they accomodate thier dyslexics. The truth is, and we can see it right here, we haven’t come that far from the days when Churchill was ridiculed for his LD or Patton was crying and kept out of school til he was 16. Einstein and Edison would still be seen as lackluster students, and Da Vinci, with his mirror writing would have been sent to an alternative school of some sort. </p>
<p>But that is the way of the world and something these kids have to learn to handle, along with doing three times as much as anyone else to get as far. I really think the lessons they learn along the way serve them well and that Schwab, Kinkos and Virgin Atlantic are pretty good testaments to what we can expect from these kids in the future, oh, and lest we forget…Microsoft.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about how these kids will do, just be grateful for the out of the box and innovative, three-dimensional thinking they bring to the table. I’m sure it will be one of them who finally solves the energy problem in some bizarre out of the way university lab where the professor’s didn’t care if she or he could spell, just that they could “see” something the rest of us will never be able to “get” for example E=MC2</p>