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Jun 4, 2019 18:31:32 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2019 18:31:32 GMT
Don't worry Tom, many have some form of dyslexia, I have it too and I tell you what, IMHO, those who really stand out for their abilities in no matter what form they may take will be dyslexic too. MY 3rd son is dyslexic, far more so than I, I'm only mild, he thought he was dumb, no matter how much we praised him for what he could do he was convinced of this until we asked for help and got him statemented. This gave him extra help in the areas that he needed it, like you, he was very poor at English. His head of year at secondary school saw a lot of potential in him and had him tested for his maths, in fact, they arranged some professor of maths to go to the school and observe him in class and also test him to see where he sat on the published tables. My son recorded the highest result that this particular maths professor had witnessed and from that day on my son changed, he now knew that he was good at something and it wasn't just mum and dad telling him so.
It's a long story as IIRC my son was 11 or 12 at this point, he exceeded in all subjects except of course English. In his GCSE's he got A stars in maths, physics with A's or B's in everything else except as stated English. he took his English GSCE twice but each time missed the mark by a few points. He stayed on at school and also got top marks in his A levels, again an A star for maths but failed again on his second attempt at English for GCSE. He wanted to go on to university but needed an English pass to be accepted, this is when, his Headteacher stepped in again, going above call and duty and intervened and spoke directly to the UNI that he wanted to attend (Portsmouth) to show his past results in everything, to show the math professors report and how close he got to passing English and to state that she believed he would excel at maths if they took the risk and broke their normal rules.
Well, they did take the risk and he did excel, not only getting a Maths degree but getting a 1st with merit, during his time at Uni, he did try to pass his English for the third time but still missed it by a small amount. Today he's the big earner in the family, having taught himself while at UNI to write computer code which I believe started with CC+ or whatever it is (his dissertation was a computer program about habitable planets and the zones to find them in). He is now a lead programmer who has learnt many computer codes and for the two companies that he's worked for, has transformed their ability to proceed with their code, rewriting much of what was already there, as he says, doing it the correct way, I think that may be his dyslexia talking...
BTW, Einstein was dyslexic, nuff said...
Pete
It's a long story as IIRC my son was 11 or 12 at this point, he exceeded in all subjects except of course English. In his GCSE's he got A stars in maths, physics with A's or B's in everything else except as stated English. he took his English GSCE twice but each time missed the mark by a few points. He stayed on at school and also got top marks in his A levels, again an A star for maths but failed again on his second attempt at English for GCSE. He wanted to go on to university but needed an English pass to be accepted, this is when, his Headteacher stepped in again, going above call and duty and intervened and spoke directly to the UNI that he wanted to attend (Portsmouth) to show his past results in everything, to show the math professors report and how close he got to passing English and to state that she believed he would excel at maths if they took the risk and broke their normal rules.
Well, they did take the risk and he did excel, not only getting a Maths degree but getting a 1st with merit, during his time at Uni, he did try to pass his English for the third time but still missed it by a small amount. Today he's the big earner in the family, having taught himself while at UNI to write computer code which I believe started with CC+ or whatever it is (his dissertation was a computer program about habitable planets and the zones to find them in). He is now a lead programmer who has learnt many computer codes and for the two companies that he's worked for, has transformed their ability to proceed with their code, rewriting much of what was already there, as he says, doing it the correct way, I think that may be his dyslexia talking...
BTW, Einstein was dyslexic, nuff said...
Pete