My county has mandated test that science teachers are required to give to the students at the end of every unit. The tests effect the students grade and are used as a reflection of how well the teacher and school are teaching. On the most recent test they are have implemented the use of AI to grade the written responses instead of the teacher. The written responses do not have access to spell check. In the past this was not a problem because I would let my teacher know and they would inform me if they were confused by what I was saying. But now with the AI grading it is unable to figure out what I am writing. Thus, I am given no points for the question. This is already unfair to all students because it is for science classes like biology, chemistry, human anatomy, and environmental, were there are all ready vocabulary words that students will not be able to spell. For me it a violation of by 504 plan because spelling can not counted against me With they AI grading it is doing exactly that. An example that my teacher gave the class was a student of her's wrote "sample a" not "sample A" this simple mistake of capitalization costed them all of the points for the question. The teacher themself are not able to go in and fix the grade manually but have to speak to he department head in order fix the grade.

I have tried to do all that I can to remove this new use of AI to grade. I've emailed as many people as I could find online and encouraged others to do the same thing. So thanks for reading my rant.

He's 8 years old (year 3) and got pulled to one side today to do some 'jobs'. Amongst the stuff you'd imagine for a screening test (reading/writing) he was also asked to test the strength in his back. He said they blindfolded him. He had his hands at his sides and then he had to resist against a pole that was being pushed into his back that had yellow hoops round it. I've honestly no idea what it is or why. Can anyone shed any light?

Where I live, there are a number of large families, and I have heard them say things like "children are all different, they learn to read when they are ready." Then they give examples about one of their children that didn't start reading until s/he was older, but now is a lawyer, and another child who taught her/himself to read at 4 yrs old. All children are doing well, just with different paths. I've heard it said that "some boys take longer to read" and that's normal.

None of these children received services for dyslexia. But they are all "doing great"!

This confuses me.

Because if 10-20% of children have dyslexia, and the educators and parents believe children will learn to read when they are ready-- doesn't this set up children with dyslexia for failure (or a much harder path) because they aren't getting the earlier intervention when it is needed?

But on the other hand, what if some children are being diagnosed as having dyslexia at a young age, but it really is something developmental they will outgrow in time?

When I read aloud, I randomly change the order of the words or sometimes replace entire phrases with new ones of a similar meaning.

For example, I might read something like,

"John was running up the hill to get his ball when he saw Jill"

But say,

"John saw Jill when he ran to get the ball on the hill"

Or,

"John ran into Jill on the hill with his ball"

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Is this possibly dyslexia? It doesn't affect my life that much, but a friend was asking, so I was curious.

My reading speed is not particular slow, but my mind often just go blank while reading. It can take me 6-15 min to understand 1 page, and I don't why. My mind just doesn't work with the information I gain by reading. Often I also struggle to follow people with hold long talks. My mind become all fuzzy.

What can I do?

Hi /r/Dyslexia,

In 2016 I launched Invicta-TTS for Windows. Built out of the frustration of having to wait for my University to authorise paid for text to speech software. To my surprise I discovered Invicta-TTS was being used all around the world in schools but also in medical research.

Today I’m launching the web version of the text to speech reader - Invicta-TTS Web Reader, no ads and free to use and with some improvements!

• modify the text, background of the text

• change the speed of the playback and pitch.

Note: I asked the mods of the sub-Reddit if I could post this before doing so.

Does anyone else find your texts get taken the wrong way etc? My boyfriend is dyslexic and quite often I end up reading/taking his texts the wrong way which causes trust issues. Do you guys sometimes spell a word differently to how you normally would or use a different descriptive word?

I’m really trying to understand from his point of view.

Yap warning, sorry i’m a yapper

I (19 F) understand reddit can’t diagnose me, this isn’t what that is. I just remembered this memory, and now I’m going down this rabbit hole wondering if these are signs of dyslexia or other learning disabilities in children?

I have this memory of when I was in 2nd grade and my teacher pulled me to the side to do some sort of a reading test, that I assume she did with everyone. She essentially had me read a short passage from a book, whatever was skill appropriate for my grade level. As I was reading, I kept on repeating words slightly under my breath. Like if a sentence read “A frog leaped over the rock,” I would read “the frog leaped over the rock, rock.” and I did this consistently, every single sentence. My teacher asked me why I was doing that and I was just confused because I didn’t even realize that I was doing that, I just thought I was a slow reader.

This memory led me to remembering instances in first grade. This isn’t with reading specifically, but there was one time where we were learning subtraction, and I just couldn’t do it. Everyone in my class understood, but I couldn’t figure it out. It got to the point where my teacher had my mom come in and sit with me during class to help me afterwards and figure out what I’m not understanding, which was humiliating at the time and retrospectively inappropriate for the teacher to do in front of the whole class. And throughout school, I normally was the last to understand certain topics and subjects, or even activities we did.

Another instance was also throughout first grade or maybe 3rd grade, I was in something called “Title 1,” I have no clue what it was because they never told me. I just knew that every day for a while, a lady would come in and pull me and a few other students to go to another room. We would just sit at a table and read flash cards? At the time I didn’t really know why I was in there, I didn’t ever think I was struggling. But I knew they thought I needed extra help.

Also throughout elementary school, up to 5th grade, I was always behind on “reading level,” while my friends were always at grade level or higher, I was normally a level below. We had this paper tree on a wall, and we would write our names on apples and you start at the ground and work your way up as your reading level increased. Reading level was determined by checking out books, reading them, and then taking quizzes on them. I have always been a slow reader so not only would it take me longer to finish a book, but I was awful at taking those quizzes, even if i read and enjoyed the books.

And last thing, In middle school, I believe in 7th grade, I was pulled out of class and was offered accommodations for those state tests you had to take so your school could get money. They said they noticed I was struggling and asked what would help me, they offered a “comfy chair.” I normally struggled with those tests throughout my entire middle school and high school experience.

I still struggle cognitively with some things, like reading smoothly, basic spelling, or subtraction, and don’t get me started on greater than or less than signs, those have never made sense to me. I always think there is something cognitively going on that makes me process things differently, but I have no idea where to start figuring that out. anyway, now im just rambling. sorry for the lengthy post!

People I have spoken to have reccomend trying different fonts or plastic sheets over text, as well as converting text to audio. Any advice would be awesome

I’m a psychology student and I need to do an interview of someone with dyslexia for a project for my Life Span Development class. I just need you to answer a few questions. Please & Thanks

I'm curious to hear some responses because I've spent my whole life struggling to explain to people who oversimplify dyslexia as just seeing words backward what it's really like.

I’ve started questioning if I have dyslexia or not around 2021 but I totally forgot about it untill last year. I’ve struggled learning ever since primary school especially with spelling, numbers and grammar, reading the time, skipping lines when reading, reading maps etc and I still struggle with these things now.

The teaching assistant that was helping me within primary school would always get angry and short fused with me and when I accidentally wrote downwards on the lined paper my teacher yelled at me and ripped the paper out of my book. I still don’t know wtf happened there mate.

Also within primary school I asked my mother if SENco tested me for anything, she said yes that I have trouble with my numbers but SENco hadn’t sent a dyslexia referral for me or wtv.

Through secondary from around year 7 to 9 ish I would get with this group of other students as extra help with mathematics and stuff however that only stuck with me for a short while and still didn’t help me retain that information at all.

However last year I’ve been asking the head of SENco for an assessment and she keeps agreeing to it but doesn’t actually do it. When I asked for an assessment she said to me “are you just nervous for your exam”.

girl I wasn’t, I have blatant concerns that link to what I think I have ever since I was a child. It’s just really frustrating because I can’t chase this SENco teacher around the building because I have so much work to do.

And I just can’t afford an assessment myself, it’s like £500-£700?? that baffles me.

So I had an assessment for a specific learning difficulty and the report said ‘ specific learning difficulties are identified in relation to working memory and visual processing weaknesses. Reading and production of written work is affect.’ And then it recommends I get extra time in exams and apply for disability funding from student finance. It doesn’t name a specific learning difficulty though? Is this a diagnosis of a disability?

I am in my early 20s and I have since I was 6 or 8 thought I had dyslexia and bad, my dad talked to me (because I am going away so I needed to evaluate my "undiagnosed dyslexia") he said even though we went to specialists and she said I have dyslexia, I might not have it, I'm so curious and thought I would always have issues, my father said maybe because I definitely have some sort of vision problem(with 2020 vison) it was extremely hard for me to learn in the early years when I was supposed to learn to read spell and sound out words, so I'm like just behind. This is all just guessing but would love to get some advice on the matter, how did you know it's not just a reading problem/disability

I’m a student doing an essay based subject and I have A LOT of reading to do (as in, hundreds of pages a week) and I’m quite slow. I also sometimes lose track of where I’m reading, get confused on where the emphasis is in the sentence (as I’m reading it word by word) and honestly I struggle a lot - it’s the biggest barrier by far in my degree.

Has anyone tried speechify or natural reader? I don’t have much money so if I’m going to get one it’ll be an investment, so I want to know if it works well for anyone. When I did some free trials of them I found issues where they just wouldn’t read some pages but idk if that was my hardware or the free trial messing up as I haven’t read this is an issue for other people. I also am looking into these ones specifically, because the monotone voice of free software doesn’t actually help me, as it doesn’t help me to like ingest what it’s saying and ends up being the same issue as when I read (I’m understanding it word by word not concept by concept).

I also want to know whether speechify or natural reader has the ability to skip over things like footnotes etc because other software I’ve tried doesn’t do this and it’s really annoying.

Has anyone got any recommendations, or any other tips besides these two softwares?

Thanks!

I am an actor it takes me longer to memorize lines for a play I was wondering if anyone had advice on how to memorize lines faster with dyslexia?

Thinking for myself and it possibly helping with spelling. Just the amount of randomized controlled studies they show is impressive but trying to get some first hand accounts.

I’m currently studying A-Levels and have stumbled my way through the school system, so far, doing the minimum possible written work. I’ve been feeling increasing pressure from my classmates and teachers to take notes during lessons and I think it might be useful but can never get it to work. Most of my “notes” amount to nonsensical garbage.

Do you take notes? If so, why is it useful and do you have any tips or advice?

I've known I've had dyslexia for my whole school life but I never used accommodations to assist my test taking, now coming back to to school as an adult I find multiple choice test particularly difficult. Prior to tests my teacher will ask us questions and I always know the right answers, verbally. And I'm really strong at memorization. But when I sit down to the multiple choice test it's as if I never studied the unit. I spoke with my teacher and him and I are going to set up a test in another room and another teacher is going to read the questions to me aloud, and that will also give me space to read the questions out loud too without disrupting the class. Has anyone else done this before? And if so, did you see improvements on your test scores? It's so disheartening working so hard and it not reflecting so I'm really ready to try everything at this point.

Who else enjoys reading? I do however find myself skipping words and entire sentences if I get overwhelmed. Does this occur too? If so how do you avoid to skip words or sentences?

I know dyslexia is covered by the ADA but I'm unsure how it works in the work place?

I've recently received a performance plan review for the following reasons

• Needs to consistently deliver solid work product for client products

· Needs to manage time to ensure client projects are completed ahead of internal deadline for senior review

· Needs to plan time management according to the needs of the client team or task at hand

· Needs to be accurately assess time availability and communicate availability with resource management and client managers

· Needs to put in consistently high effort on tasks for client teams

· Needs to improve grammar in written and verbal communication

Most of these are connected to my supervisor being frustrated that I read slow and that I need to take time to run my writing through spell checkers and sometimes typos slip in. In college, I had time plus half accommodations like a lot of folks here, but in the real world it hasn't been feasible to do that, so I've been working unpaid overtime (sometimes until 10 or 11 pm at night) to keep up. My boss however says this is because I'm inefficient at time management. I today told her when she gave me this plan that I have dyslexia, and that I can't fix that. They were quiet but they didn't actually adjust any of the above requirements for me to improve without me getting fired. I HATE asking for special treatment, and I'm willing to work twice as hard for the same pay to work in a field I like, but this just feels unfair. I mean, does this rule just mean their company doesn't allow dyslexics to work there?

Can I bring a complaint to HR? I'm leaving the job either way in a couple of months for grad school, but it was pretty humiliating to be outed like this, and even after being forced to share something so intimate to have my employer not even try to adjust to accommodate.

Does anyone else mix up V and Z when writing or typing? These are the only letters I get mixed up on. Spelling the word Verizon I always want to start it with a Z and I have to take a few moments to process it should be a V

hello, I go to upper secondary school and got diagnosed with dyslexia a year ago, my first language is Norwegian and i would prefer having german to spanish because even if the grammar is harder, it's closer to my mother language, but because of our municipalities bad communication between the secondary- and the upper secondary school, everyone who had english and french in secondary school (there was no option for spanish for my year, but i'm not gonna go into detail) had to take spanish, usually theres a choice (not for french, as there is no french teacher in the upper secondary. i said the communication was bad lol), but for some reason, everyone was put to spanish.

i am now struggling with bending verbs, which i struggle with even in norwegian and english. my head has a hard time putting the verbs into categories like past tense and such, and i usually have to make up sentences with the words to know how to bend them instead, but for some reason this doesnt work for me in spanish at all, and im practically failing the class, getting 2 (our grades are 1-6, 1 being worst, 6 being best) on most assignments/tests, and because i am bearly passing the class i cannot get an exemption for foreign language, even though i can sit for 4 hours a day a couple days before the tests and still fail, because i got the verbs bent wrong and such.

to the point, does anyone have a good idea how to practise the grammar, bending verbs, ect? most tips i've seen does not work, so im wondering if anyone has/had a method for practising these kinds of grammar things. i have also tried duolingo, but it just makes things worse, cause it is apparently not the same spanish we're learning.

I’m not sure what to think anymore.

My 1st grader has been in reading intervention all year. I’ve been tutoring her reading 4 days a week at home, encouraging reading with sticker sheets and rewards, etc…. And she has improved…. But..

I have this lingering feeling she’s very intelligent and has found ways to adapt. Shes crafty that way: very observant. Figures ways around things: even manipulating her parents.

She reverses words, can’t sound words out easily- or sometimes not at all. Despises reading, flips letters and numbers. ( all inconsistently). We started the school year very behind in reading and the school says she’s just about “on track”. They say she does not qualify for testing for a learning disability because she’s learning and with all the work we’re doing: she’s doing well. I think she is not actually reading. But memorizing. I can’t prove that though.

Maybe I should be thrilled that my child is ok…but I feel almost worse because I feel like no one cares enough. But despite my verbal concerns; I don’t have tests like they do and charts to back me up. I’m considering getting her independently evaluated just to se sure, but the school doesn’t HAVE to do anything with it. Even if it shows she has something.

Is it me? Do I let it go?

I've been given the advice to listen to an audiobook while following along with the book has anyone tried this? and has it improved the Reading?

My cousin is 27 and has had a hard time pursuing what he wants to do as he is dyslexic and has failed his English gcse numerous times. can u guys recommend anything that will help him learn better if u get what I mean ?

He has had a bad experience with learning. It has felt like teachers have picked on him n shitted on him all his life and I just want to help my cousin get through this!!!

My 6 year old is going through assessments at the moment and it's becoming apparent she has Dyslexia. I can't help but feel guilty to have given her dylexia and finding it hard to digest. I feel guilty that I've brought her in the world to have this struggle. I see how upset she gets when she reads and I try to be strong and supportive but deep down when I walk away I feel this uncontrollable sadness and guilt. Does any parent feel the same?