Dislezia a friction

Always a great internet excuse for being lazy?

This guy thinks so anyway
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7828121.stm

thoughts?

Billy Conoly: 'what ever happened to kids just being thick?'

Sums it up.

Heh, what a bell end.

I can't wait to read the comments on that. Not because I care, it's just that with so many disexlics in one place it could be comedy gold.

thats one way not to get voted in again

I'm surrounded by dyslexics at my uni. They get a free mac, photoshop, microsoft office, claroread (software that reads what's on the screen), a scanner, a printer, free laser printer credits, a Dictaphone, keyboard, mouse and half of their broadband costs paid for. Quite disheartening when you have to pay for it all yourself and the uni's excuse is that pupils need a mac so they can have the claroread software.

chop your legs off and claim a free wheelchair.

Free computers eh? I'm getting myself dysleciskcified...

Free computers eh? I'm getting myself dysleciskcified...

If you are cynical enough to pretend to be disabled then dyslexia must be an easy one to fake mustn't it?
Watch out when karma catches up though, faking a disability can't be good on the karmic scale...

(not saying this applies to you obviously, just picking up on your comment!)

Billy Conoly: 'what ever happened to kids just being thick?'
my business partner has a 19yr old son, straight A's and A*'s, both levels, and is studying at uni now....really badly dyslexic.
and i believe 'connolly' has two n's and l's..... dipshit !

Yeah, admittedly that was bad spelling, but I couldn't be arsed to check how he spelt it. I've had plenty of people with surnames spelt the thick way, the posh way etc, so you can't really comment on that.

First thought is that it shows this guy doesn't know what dyslexia actually is.

Faking it is possible, but would require knowledge of which ever test is being used... there are a few... and it's not just about spelling a few things wrong... I had a dyslexia test in December, I got 100% of the spellings correct, but I'm still dyslexic.

posher way to spell connolly: qonolet.

If you are cynical enough to pretend to be disabled then dyslexia must be an easy one to fake mustn't it?
Watch out when karma catches up though, faking a disability can't be good on the karmic scale...

(not saying this applies to you obviously, just picking up on your comment!)

He wouldn't have to try too hard

Faking it is possible, but would require knowledge of which ever test is being used... there are a few... and it's not just about spelling a few things wrong... I had a dyslexia test in December, I got 100% of the spellings correct, but I'm still dyslexic.

Agree, would need to know which 'strain' you are faking and have a good knowledge of tests. Still might be easier than faking blindness or having no legs though.

i think the problem comes from poor diagnosis of dyslexia, and seemingly a readiness to do so.

do people fake it? i should think that if they did it would be a very, very small percentage.
are people with other specific learning difficulties banded together under the dyslexia banner? i think so.

this monetary and technological giveaway to people with dyslexia is not a decent solution imo and in fact ignores the possibilty to adapt teaching methods to work effectively for such people.

posher way to spell connolly: qonolet.

Exactly.

I went to school with a guy who is now a proper smackhead, called Cona, when you could spell it Connor if you, Conor, Connar etc.

Kids are going to be pretty fucked either way sometimes: http://www.geekologie.com/2009/01/morons_who_named_their_son_ado.php

At least he's been taken off them

Ive got a lot of experience of learning difficulties & "the system" it basically doesnt work.

Dyslexia is a very specific condition with actue symptoms but a culture has developed around the buzzword so money & laptops are thrown that way by local education authorities.

Dyslexia is very very real, and can trouble people greatly. But the help students get via software/computers is in consiquential. If students were given special education when younger it could atually let them develop out of it.

Then theres people like me, I have multiple learning difficulties but have never been able to get anything other than dyslexia diagnosed in the system, which I dont have, and which is a mockery. Having the software & a laptop dont help me much, but seeing total fakers around me with Macbook Pro's, wacoms intuos tablets, fancy camera etc etc when they dont have an inkling of any learning difficulty kinda makes me sick.

I get a 2week extension & some printing/book allowance (small) which is the best part.

But more than anything I would like a proper thorough assessment of my condition, but it just dont exist in the system. They prefer fakers.

My best friend is dyslexic and he too receives all the free stuff from uni. I told him that he's not really dyslectic, he's just a lazy cunt that didn't read as a child, and he agreed with me.

If it does exist (and I don't care either way), it must be misdiagnosed in too many thick, lazy people. Non?

salmonchild
i agree,
i know a few, and they are so frustrated and angry about it i think very few fake it, they just hate it so much.

My best friend is dyslexic and he too receives all the free stuff from uni. I told him that he's not really dyslectic, he's just a lazy cunt that didn't read as a child, and he agreed with me.

If it does exist (and I don't care either way), it must be misdiagnosed in too many thick, lazy people. Non?

Yep lots of lazy and quite a few fakers.

But A lot of the people diagnosed with dyslexia through schools, do have dyslexia or other serious learning difficulties.
Have you met anyone with real dyslexia? They genuinely cannot spell, no matter how clever they are or how hard they try. Some even do weird stuff like write in mirror image.

But they wont be helped much anyhow.

Some people are just not very good at reading/writing - as much as some people are not very good at numeracy, or spatial awareness or physical endurance or balance or colour recognition or social skills or memory tasks or . . . . well, pretty much everything.

I think our society is so reliant on good (or even adequate) literacy that we seemed to have medicalised something that could also be simply labelled "not very good at . . "

Does it exist that some people are less well adapted to lexical/literacy skills ? It seems fairly obvious that this is the case but 'Dyslexia' (the word) seems to imbue a simple and common failing with some kind of special quality, it seems over medicalised to me.

To call Dyslexia as neurological condition is also a misnomer, most things that you will find yourself lacking in will be neurological in nature, it is not as if someone's lack of numeracy is caused by demons or miasmas.

Dyslexia rules KO.

Ive got a lot of experience of learning difficulties & "the system" it basically doesnt work.

Dyslexia is a very specific condition with actue symptoms but a culture has developed around the buzzword so money & laptops are thrown that way by local education authorities.

Dyslexia is very very real, and can trouble people greatly. But the help students get via software/computers is in consiquential. If students were given special education when younger it could atually let them develop out of it.

Then theres people like me, I have multiple learning difficulties but have never been able to get anything other than dyslexia diagnosed in the system, which I dont have, and which is a mockery. Having the software & a laptop dont help me much, but seeing total fakers around me with Macbook Pro's, wacoms intuos tablets, fancy camera etc etc when they dont have an inkling of any learning difficulty kinda makes me sick.

I get a 2week extension & some printing/book allowance (small) which is the best part.

But more than anything I would like a proper thorough assessment of my condition, but it just dont exist in the system. They prefer fakers.

Spot on.

Students with dyslexia at my university are babied. One of my closest friends now thinks that if somebody asks him something in an interview that he doesn't understand he can explain he's a dyslexic and allowances will be made.

Instead of throwing thousands of pounds worth of computer equipment at them, the students should be split up into groups of which kind of dyslexia they suffer from and money should be spent on teaching them how to work around their problems.

Either that or send them to concentration camps.