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by SparksMcGhee
Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:06 am
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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 i...
by SparksMcGhee
Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:51 pm
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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
by SparksMcGhee
Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:33 pm
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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 hi...
by SparksMcGhee
Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:01 pm
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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...
by SparksMcGhee
Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:33 pm
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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 o...
by SparksMcGhee
Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:04 pm
Forum: Public Discussion
Topic: I went to a "special" school, if you want to fact check
Replies: 14
Views: 5432

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 t...