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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 [...] Princeton freshman Diane Metcalf-Leggette is suing the University for their refusal to accommodate her learning disabilities by granting her extra time to take exams. The student suffers from several learning disabilities that effect her visual and language processing ability, requiring her to check and re-check her work several times while she’s writing. Metcalf-Leggette was [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Of my various learning disabilities, dysgraphia probably messes me up the least. Sure, I can’t write reminders for myself, or write grocery lists, or any of that good stuff, but I have computers and SMS for that sort of thing. Technology is my friend. It keeps my hands from falling off when I need to [...] |
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