Guide Back to School- Dyslexic Addition

Hey Guys,

If you don't know for all my life i have suffered with the horror that is dyslexia.

Dyslexia if you are not familiar is a learning disability that google defines as:

"a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence."

And this means it really affects life when you are at school.

Finally as i have finished school, I am able to escape the hell it created, but that means many of you are  still suffering through school, made especially hard if you too suffer with dyslexia. Therefore i have decided to give you a few top tips if you are in need of help. 

1, Get Tested.

The first thing to do if you fee like you have any sort of learning disability, get tested. Therefore you can understand exactly what you have and what you can do to combat it. Getting tested is easily, go and organise a meeting with an educational physcologist They will do really easy brain test and IQ test, don't worry about that.

2.  Speak to your teachers

Some problems can arise when your teachers believe you are being stupid or lazy- which you are not you are just trying to be a normal human. Speaking to your teacher so you can highlight the areas you have problems with whether it be reading, writing or numbers. If you can get your teachers on board life will become a lot more easier.

3. Find a way to revise

What i found hardest about dyslexia was my memory, that meant i have to start to revise a lot earlier than others- i;m talking October rather than when they start in like blooming May! I revise by A5 notebooks which i right summaries of all topics, and then to increasingly amounts of practise exams and essays.

4. Have the right equipment

If your handwriting is messy or takes you quite a while, see if you can get computer in exam, or at the very least 25% extra time. This will help make the HORROR that is exams, they are literally designed by Satan.
( If you can't tell. I hate exams)

5. Plan essays

This was the best thing for me, although you will always have the comments of can you plan your essays despite the fact you do, planning essays means you structure is a least on point. Planning is so important and without it my essays would be such a mess, so planning is a massive necessity just for getting all your ideas down in a coherent way.

I hope this helps anyone going into the horror of school tomorrow!

Good Luck

Love,

LadyoftheRivers x