I have recently heard from a very proud father about the success of his
daughter who was assessed by Aston Uni as 'severely dyslexic'. She is now
33 and is a senior programming consultant with her own company who contracts
her time to the defence industry on projects she cannot discuss with anyone.
She told him recently that in her working group of seven people, six are
severely dyslexic and its very funny when someone shouts out "How do you
spell 'such and such as word.?" Invariably, no-one knows and someone will
say, "Just a minute. I type it into Word " (so that the spell-checker will
correct whatever they type in)
As the father says, there is masses of hope for dyslexics and it is
important
that teachers are made aware of the fact that many of these 'dyslexics'
will eventually function professionally at a very high level.
Cheers
Judith
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Judith Stansfield
SEN ICT Consultant
NASEN ICT Group
BDACC Reviews and Literature Editor
NAACE SEN Reference Point
http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Stass-onyxnet.co.uk
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