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- Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:06 am
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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Re: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
[quote="Envy" Yeah, there's really no reason why someone with dyslexia can't get high grades and/or succeed in life, it just requires alternative non-linear teaching methods that you won't find any public school because it's an accepted method of teaching and anyone who struggles with it is just ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:51 pm
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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Re: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Ritalin fights hyperactivity.... I think ... /psyduck
yeah, the effects of medication on ADD often are more pronounced then the disorder...
>_< yeah, don't use me to fact check medication
yeah, the effects of medication on ADD often are more pronounced then the disorder...
>_< yeah, don't use me to fact check medication
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:33 pm
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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Re: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Side effects depend on dosage, although that is a good argument for him having Torrettes. Yeah, when I was on ADD meds they didn't even have an effect. If anything, they made me more hyper. do you have ADD (Attention Deficate Disorder) or ADHD (Attention deficient hyperactivity disorder)? or some ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:01 pm
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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Re: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
That sounds more like Tourette syndrome. I went to high school with a kid who had it. He would sometimes just get up and do a sexy dance by the ketchup dispensers or something like that. Hrm, many of these syndromes and disorders overlap, its possible he had Tourette's, although it would have to be ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:33 pm
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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Re: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
dyslexia is less of a disorder and more of a "bucket" for anybody with a brain which thinks differently. For instance, my dyslexia affects my short term auditory memory (I basically cant remember things told to me unless it goes to long term memory) among many other little things. ADD is one of the ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:04 pm
- Forum: Public Discussion
- Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
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I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Hi! I promise this wont be a generic help offering, as I don't pretend to be able to write drama or draw. In high school, I went to Star Academy (website:http://www.staracademy.org/) for two years in order to receive special schooling for my dyslexia. The climate of the school was almost identical ...