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over a year ago
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At present I am involved with a C/D who is like me dyslexic. She is 65 like me but does not think its a problem. I have a program on my computer that helps me sort this out. She will not use it. How can I make her see sense Dianna.
The Word
Words are useless, Words are bold,
Words get fainter when you get old,
Words are something we rely on,
Words are something to get by on,
Words are pretty when wrote sincere,
Not so nice when written queer,
Words show all that you are great,
Written in a form you can relate,
Words are bad when all mixed about
Not spelled right and you all shout,
What’s this twit is he sick?
No you clowns he’s Dicklexick.
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I am dyslexic and if its a pice of written work or work I will use a spell check and get some one to prof read . But in this sort of place and in text my spelling is BAD lol but I don't care if you can't read it or don't like it go read some thing elas !!!! People that take the piss out of my spelling make me laught as I think when some one belittles someone for there mistakes it says a lot about them rather than the person there belittling ! Is she's happy leave her be |
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By (user no longer on site)
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You've found a great way of managing dyslexia and you want your friend to share it of course. But everyone manages themselves independently and whilst you can show them something you find helps you, they might not take to it, or even see its importance.
If she's happy, isn't that the most important thing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Windows 8 comes with a rather cool inline autocorrect facility on txt input boxes (like the one you type in to post messages on here). It doesn't catch every single typo but it will underline something in red if it doesn't understand it and then you right click on the word and select the correct spelling.
Upgrade your friend to Windows 8 and she won't have a problem with typing online. |
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I think it very easy to dismiss how intimidating it can be for dyslexics to communicate in writing…
I know from first hand experience the frustration it can cause and how liberating it feels once you know it’s a condition rather than a weakness….
Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,, …..
I found this poem on a dyslexic help site...
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Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.
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Eye strike the quays and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.
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Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
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A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.
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Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Thanks for your messages and comments. Will take them on board. Its probably me me being a bit OCD. I was bullied a school by teachers and boys. Up till computers I never wrote anything. Even the poem I dictated to an understanding gay friend when I was sixteen.It was given some publicity by the local paper at the time. Although dyslexia was not recognised as a problem officially till the eighty's. Dianna xxx.  |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,, "
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly. |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly."
Wishy not everyone writes on a PC…… there’s this other thing called pen and paper ….!.
No-one should feel compromised about writing in any form because of what other people might think of their grammar and spelling… |
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"I think it very easy to dismiss how intimidating it can be for dyslexics to communicate in writing…
I know from first hand experience the frustration it can cause and how liberating it feels once you know it’s a condition rather than a weakness….
Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,, …..
I found this poem on a dyslexic help site...
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Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.
.
Eye strike the quays and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.
.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
.
A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.
.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.
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Lol this is why my work is prof read by a friend at work lol
I think I am lucky in that yes I was bullied by teachers and other people at school but only untill I was 11 then a younge student teacher stuck her neck out and pushed the head of my school to have me tested . Once they found out I was dyslexic I was taken out of my main stream school and given scholar ship to a special school for dyslexics . I have good GCSEs and A leaves . All thow I know my spelling is bad and I can't punctuate for toffee . I don't let it bother me . I really do feel for people that didn't have any one to fight for them and get them the help they disarved  |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly.
Wishy not everyone writes on a PC…… there’s this other thing called pen and paper ….!.
No-one should feel compromised about writing in any form because of what other people might think of their grammar and spelling… "
That's not what the OP was talking about though. Pen and paper wasn't mentioned. If I had dyslexia I'd write any letters I needed to write on a pc, spell check it and then print it. People who knew me would know this is what I'd do and would understand. |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly."
would you say this to someone that didn't want to ware a prosthetic hand if they were born with a stump ... No one has to over come a disability if they are happy to live with it ! |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly."
The thing is some twenty percent of the population are in some way dyslexic and most do not know it. They pass it off a not being able to spell properly and numerous other excuses. They will never admit they have a problem. Dyslexia covers a whole spectrum of matters ie. Word blindness, thinking you have put a word in a sentence and no matter how many times you reread that sentence your head puts it in even though its not there.Dianna |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly.
would you say this to someone that didn't want to ware a prosthetic hand if they were born with a stump ... No one has to over come a disability if they are happy to live with it ! "
If the discussion was about people with prosthetic limbs I'd say something related to that, but it isn't, it's about people with dyslexia. |
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Your post says people with a disability MUST over come it . Well no I will not be over coming it any time soon and I am sorry but you seam to be able to understand me just fine even if I can't spell so why should I !! |
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"I'm going to leave this one...
It's not even worth challenging an opinion that attempted to belittle someone’s natural abilities..
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Who's belittling anything? I'm simply saying that in a world where the majority of people are not dyslexic it puts people who are dyslexic at a disadvantage. If they don't feel disadvantaged then great, excellent, good for them, but some do feel pressured into being able to write or spell correctly, and for those people there is help available should they seek it.
My nephew is dyslexic and he had problems getting a driving licence because he couldn't pass the written part of the exam. He thought it wasn't fair but I said to him, "Can you read the overhead gantry signs?" and he said, "No," so I then said, "If one read 'Bridge ahead collapsed', what would you do?" He replied, "probably drive off it if I didn't see it in time." He then understood why it was important to pass the written part of the exam and he sought advice from The British Dyslexia Association on how to pass written exams. He passed it a few months later. |
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"Your post says people with a disability MUST over come it . Well no I will not be over coming it any time soon and I am sorry but you seam to be able to understand me just fine even if I can't spell so why should I !! "
If you hadn't said you were dyslexic, I would never have realised it. |
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"I'm going to leave this one...
It's not even worth challenging an opinion that attempted to belittle someone’s natural abilities..
Who's belittling anything? I'm simply saying that in a world where the majority of people are not dyslexic it puts people who are dyslexic at a disadvantage. If they don't feel disadvantaged then great, excellent, good for them, but some do feel pressured into being able to write or spell correctly, and for those people there is help available should they seek it.
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That's not what you said at all you said they MUST over come it ! And then went on to say that by not useing a
spell checker we are all being ungrateful ! |
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"Spell check is a great tool but its not something that should create another problem where dyslexics feel complied to use every time they wish to raise their written voice,,,
If they want to be understood in a world where 99% of the population are not dyslexic then they must overcome their 'disability' any way they can. Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to build comprehensive spell checkers for people who are not so hot with words, so it's a bit of an insult to that hard work and diligence to simply dismiss it because one doesn't feel one should have to write correctly if one wants to be understood correctly."
Ummmm....
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"I'm going to leave this one...
It's not even worth challenging an opinion that attempted to belittle someone’s natural abilities..
Who's belittling anything? I'm simply saying that in a world where the majority of people are not dyslexic it puts people who are dyslexic at a disadvantage. If they don't feel disadvantaged then great, excellent, good for them, but some do feel pressured into being able to write or spell correctly, and for those people there is help available should they seek it.
My nephew is dyslexic and he had problems getting a driving licence because he couldn't pass the written part of the exam. He thought it wasn't fair but I said to him, "Can you read the overhead gantry signs?" and he said, "No," so I then said, "If one read 'Bridge ahead collapsed', what would you do?" He replied, "probably drive off it if I didn't see it in time." He then understood why it was important to pass the written part of the exam and he sought advice from The British Dyslexia Association on how to pass written exams. He passed it a few months later."
The test for anyone with dyslexia isnt done in writing now, its done by headphones, aurally.
Even the driving part of the test can be modified for people who are severely dyslexic.
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"I'm going to leave this one...
It's not even worth challenging an opinion that attempted to belittle someone’s natural abilities..
Who's belittling anything? I'm simply saying that in a world where the majority of people are not dyslexic it puts people who are dyslexic at a disadvantage. If they don't feel disadvantaged then great, excellent, good for them, but some do feel pressured into being able to write or spell correctly, and for those people there is help available should they seek it.
My nephew is dyslexic and he had problems getting a driving licence because he couldn't pass the written part of the exam. He thought it wasn't fair but I said to him, "Can you read the overhead gantry signs?" and he said, "No," so I then said, "If one read 'Bridge ahead collapsed', what would you do?" He replied, "probably drive off it if I didn't see it in time." He then understood why it was important to pass the written part of the exam and he sought advice from The British Dyslexia Association on how to pass written exams. He passed it a few months later.
The test for anyone with dyslexia isnt done in writing now, its done by headphones, aurally.
Even the driving part of the test can be modified for people who are severely dyslexic.
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I had heard that from a friend you can ask to sit the test aurally even if your not dyslexic now x
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Lets kill the thread. Thanks for all the comments and replies and I am grateful for the response. So lets finish before Hand Bags at Dawn. Dianna xxx  |
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