Dyslexia, full disclosure?

amtc
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:07:26 +0000

momofthreeboys - I totally agree with you. For the excessive reading my daughter downloads onto her iPod everything she can, not only because her reading is so slow but also because her auditory comprehension is so amazing. Even though listening to a book being read aloud is slower she can do something else while listening so it becomes more efficient. For example, she can work at her potters wheel for her independent study advanced ceramics class while listening to a novel for one of her English classes. Personally, I would blank out and stop listening to the book but she has totally perfect comprehension and insight even while doing something else. When she was younger I would read passages from her various social studies textbooks while she did something else and it took me a while to accept that she could do these two things at once.

This is why she just mentioned her dyslexia (as I’m pretty sure her GC will) in her application. But I must say I am a little concerned as her spelling is atrocious and she is incapable of proofreading (another thing I couldn’t believe until the tests proved it!) so those are two things I would like to validate and discuss with those colleges to which she is admitted.