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A fellow dysgraphic named Hannah recently commented on my post about dysgraphia and X-Acto knives. She’s a costume designer who struggles with drawing, but manages hand-stitching and cutting without too much difficulty. It got me thinking about how important it is to have the right tools when you’re trying to work around something like dysgraphia. For [...] I haven’t been posting a lot lately. Partly this is because of the amount of time I’ve had to spend reading job listings, filling out applications, tweaking resumes, and trying to write cover letters that aren’t don’t sound like total BS. Partly, it’s because I’ve just been too depressed. I feel like if I write about [...] The short version: I’m still looking. The long version: Well … A few weeks back I wrote a post about taking a math test for a job I applied for. I guess I’ve been so busy tossing resumes into a black hole that I forgot to post that I apparently passed it. I’m not sure how I managed it, and [...] Awhile back, I wrote about Google Voice, and how awesome it was as assisstive technology for someone like me with dyscalculia and dysgraphia. If you don’t know Google Voice, it’s a system whereby Google gives you a phone number which you can use to receive voice mail, which gets converted into a transcript, which is sent [...] A few months ago I wrote about how hard it often is for me to use an X-acto knife. Motor dysgraphia apparently involves poor muscle tone in the fingers, making small precision work very difficult. What’s worse than the clumsiness is the shooting, cramping pain that comes with it. Turns out I just didn’t have [...] Once again, I need to say that Google Voice rocks. I love getting transcripts of voice mail as e-mail and SMS. I hate answering the phone, because it’s such an interruption, and because if I need to write anything down I have to find my computer and type it up somewhere … so it’s ten [...] Google Voice provides voicemail, sent right to your e-mail inbox Google provides me with yet another piece of adaptive technology for my learning disabilities Google, in their never-ending quest for world domination to create technology to make our lives easier, has come out with Google Voice Mail. Google Voice is a free VOIP service that provides [...] When I was writing my squidoo lens on the long-term psychological effects of learning disabilities, I kept running into the words affect and effect. “Affect” is usually a verb, and “effect” is usually a noun, but this is English we’re talking about, which means there are exceptions. I think I used to have a handle [...] There’s a persistent myth out there that learning disabilities are a problem of childhood; as if somehow, our dyslexia or Asperger’s or visual processing disorder just vaporizes upon reaching the age of legal majority. This is not the case. It is also not the case that LD is contained within the four walls of the classroom. [...] I did more drawing yesterday with my watercolor pastels. Every so often, I stopped with the pastel on the paper and checked to see if my hand and wrist were relaxed. I made sure I wasn’t pressing too hard (which is a problem, since you have to press hard with watercolor crayons if you want [...] |
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