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MP says dyslexia is a "cruel fiction" invented to cover up bad teaching. Yeah? How about you get a ladder and jump up my ass, sir.

Can I get some recommendations for good tai chi or yoga DVDs/videos? I'll trade suggestions for epic cat cuteness.

Samwise, our gray tabby who came to the door and claimed us.

Gracie the new addition, being cute. Mauling imminent in 3, 2, 1...

Weejo, my parents' cat, with her ill gotten straw still in her mouth. "O HAI, why you takes mah picture?"

Gratuitous cat snuggling! They clean each other, too.

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After I got help for reading ALL of my problems were with math. It was comprehending data and structure and remembering sequences. I FAIL at sequences. Physical things make sense to me. You have to turn the faucet on before water comes out. Remembering to add that number before subtracting that one, THAT never stuck.

And yeah, it really does effect you socially. I was also mild ADHD but my parents made the BRILLIANT choice after I was diagnosed to never tell me or my teachers so I wouldn't use it as a "crutch". Instead I thought I was a bad kid because I liked my teacher but I just couldn't focus when she was talking about Geography. When things are awkward in your education, kids see that and tend to treat you like a social leper even though you're no different SOCIALLY then them.

By the way I read the little article you posted and I found it very interesting. Apparently French shouldn't have been my first choice for a second language. No wonder I flunked out after a semester. Luckily ASL was also avalible and I ROCKED that class. If you ever need to take a second language take ASL. It works PERFECTLY for how our brains work. Everyone else will be freaking out because deaf people don't say "am" or "is" and instead questions tend to be "WHERE BATHROOM WHERE?" or "BATHROOM WHERE?" or "WHERE BATHROOM?" but all they can think is "why don't deaf people say - where is the bathroom? This is hard!" Plus, I don't know about you but I'm more of a kinesthetic learner and the physicality of sign language means it's extremely easy for me to remember.

I HATE the proof read question!

Another issue for me is my handwriting is AWFUL. I went to school before computers became really wide spread so I also got good at writing essays using small words and painstakingly writing them out at a speed MUCH slower then my mental speed. I learned how to type my Freshman year in high school and my Senior year when I had an English teacher who would let me go to the library to type out my essays instead of writing them in class, I discovered I could whip out an A level paper in 20 minutes because I had gotten so used to spending the entire class period concentrating on my HANDWRITING instead of the SUBJECT. Spell check on a computer has also saved me. It opened up all sorts of word choices. I could actually say "omnipotent" in an essay instead of breaking it down into spellable words.

Stunning kitties *nods*

My favorite yoga video - the one that hooked me - was Ali McGraw's Yoga Mind & Body - was just the right length, right difficulty to make me feel like I was getting a workout, and the narrative was refreshingly supportive. Have fun!

I love how he equates being illiterate with dyslexia. Because everyone knows dyslexics can't read, right?

Besides which, I'd like to know how a moron like him can talk trash about the education system. No country has a 100% literacy rate, they just report it because of deliberately skewed statistics. And he can't claim that they prove dyslexia doesn't exist until he finds out what their special education methods are. Sigh.

cat snuggling will never not make me smile.

ohh fuck you to British guy! i had sever dyslexia as a kid and have mostly over come it, there is no way bad teaching makes me read backwards!

and Gracie is adorable, even if she might maul someone.

Gaiam do both yoga and tai chi dvds. I've only got their yoga ones, but they are very good.

Cute kitties by the way

Just dropping by to say that such is also my personal cannon about John and Dean. I used some very similar methods (the wall with connecting lines) back in my school teacher days. It was really interesting because I always had to come up with ways to adjust myself to my kids, kept me on my toes, gotta say.

love the Kitties!

There is no "one way for all children to learn." That assumes that everyone is the same, so why not get rid of color, extended family units, and a conscience. (The Giver reference) And I know for a fact that not every child even gets to go to school in Nicaragua. I think it was on one of those "save the children" commercials once, I believe. And I can't find their curriculum online.

Britain however:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/usa-education-uk-system-k-12-education.htm
and
http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/

Hee! Gracie has such awesome coloring!

As for yoga, I absolutely LOVE Rodney Yee's Power Yoga for Flexibility (http://www.amazon.com/Power-Yoga-Flexibility-Rodney-Yee/dp/B00062DKO0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1232115967&sr=8-1).

I teach dyslexic kids and provide a testing environment for extended time / distraction free test-taking.

OMG, do not even get me started on "she's not disabled, she's lazy". For one thing: invisible disability me has issues with that logic ANYWAY, but I've also seen these "lazy" students WORKING THEIR ASSES OFF to get a passing grade. Argh.

I'd also like to know why so many politicians and laypeople are so damned ready to assume that they know more about my job than I do. I mean, clearly, I don't have, oh, I don't know, any specialized training in a particular field or professional experience or anything. Clearly, just anyone could do my job.

Ugh, WORD. There's this sense that teaching is a dumping ground for those who can't do anything else, instead of a SKILL and an art. I can't imagine how frustrating that must be.

I love your personal canon. *hums* And that wee!John in the flashback ep this season was just, like, HOLDING the newspaper in the beginning. Not engrossed in it. Distractable.

Which is a shame, because you could go "this guy's a fuckwit, see my references." Put a footnote in about his uselessness.

Thank you!

(Also, I am so sorry for your loss. *hugs*)

Thank you! I'll have to look that up.

EXACTLY. Like, hm, I suppose his sloppy research methodology is due to bad teaching too.

That so makes sense!

And yeah, that MP can shove it. My husband is dyslexic-- he figured that out after he graduated high school. He had to repeat a grade early on, because of course there couldn't be a reason he got so frustrated with trying to read; he was just stupid. *snarl*

Thank you!

Yep! And Dean and John seem to sort of GET each other. Their brains work in similar patterns. Sam's the odd man out because his brain works with the rest of society. All the "normal" people think in the same linear pattern as Sam when his brother and father are in a cluster of logic all by themselves.

I've heard a lot of people say that they think John and Dean are dyslexic. *g* This pleases me.

It must be challenging to teach students. I was supposed to tutor a peer on a vocal system I had learned and I found that I COULD NOT DO IT. I couldn't remember the steps. In my brain it was a fully formed concept and I couldn't remember what the baby steps were. Kudos for being a dyslexic teacher! Hell, kudos for being a TEACHER!

Of course we dyslexic people are stupid and lazy. All the other kids understand the problems on the board. Obviously we're just being defiant.

thank you *hugs*

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