Ros!

yes because they are different and not entirely phonetic - elephant is remembered better than and - the shape of the word is also sometimes remembered - forget about them learning sounds and remembering them - they can't

my brother is 37 Ros.   He went through his whole school life being shoved into the remedial groups...    only in his last year of secondary school did the dyslexia diagnosis come in (even my parents tagged him as "not very academic")....    he left school with nothing but an Art GCSE.

Then by accident he stumbled into a computer programming apprenticeship..    and.... very Matrix style...  though he struggled with language written or reading language...  Cobol computer programming language made perfect sense to him...   and he flew.   He drove past his old school less than 5 years later in his brand new Lotus Elise beeping the horn and sticking his fingers up!

We're the teenie brigade!, *digs out school uniform*.

menty - not that smiley - DITTY DUCKY - put my pips back for get about it *arm over forehead in dramatic gesture smiley*

I can seeeeeeeeee you Amy 

awwwwwww ditty - good for him - i teach one young boy - he i ssooooooo dyslexic it is untrue - but bright as a button - has speech/language issues as well - will tell him about your brother - he needs a confidence booster

Yoooo hoooo Amythist.....I can see yooooou!

Happy now?

I never saw sign langauge done in front of me before I went to College and someone I knew was deaf.

Maybe.. the should play Dave's YouTube videos into the house.. first thing Monday morning should do it


He's a snake oil salesman, charlatan,  quack, a sham, fraud, fake,impostor, hoaxer .. git really


Z. 

Shocking isn't it? I can't quite put into words what I feel about that .................done my bit but I think I'll shut up now.

Teenie Ducky.

I am reliably informed we are all like this





Z.

I have just been back, cant help myself

yes do Ros!   My brother could not even read a newspaper at 15. (not even a red top!).

there was an element of viscous circle going on though...   always failing, and feeling thick, undermining confidence, fear of trying, more undermining of self belief.

At 22 he read a book for the first time.   he read Dune!!!!  It completely gobsmacked us!   he had never got past the early primary school books... and then jumped to reading Dune.   He puts it down to having found success in his job, he then revisited all the other areas of his life he had assumed he was a failure in, and attempting them with a new confidence and approach.

I'm older than you lot now, you're all teenagers again because we like John James.

YES!!   this is turning out to be a great summer!  

Oh Shit!  NOT AGAIN


Z.

Z i'll need a walking stick.

That's interesting Ditty! When I worked in SEN I read a study that worked with two similar groups of children with reading difficulties, one group were given intensive reading lessons, the other were banned from reading altogether and worked only on boosting their self-esteem.

Guess which group made the greatest progress in their reading?

Aw - Ditty so pleased for him and his success - a great role model for any dyslexic - they have absolutely no confidence or self esteem

night everybody

Daves being nice and I think congruent but I think he has problems with his religion

Night ros


Z.

its obvious when you think about it!    The whole remedial sectioning and the way it was done back then (dunno if it is still the same now)...    lead to being called a "ficky"...  

then in those classes my brother said the pressure to cope with what was being taught was even worse than normal classes...    almost with an attitude of "we have dumbed this down for you... you are just not trying now".

My brother hated school... with a passion.

I got into the most trouble at school cos of him...   though we used to fight like cat & dog, one whisper of anyone giving my brother grief used to get me sprinting over to the lower school and walloping some middle school git with my school bag!

Night night shackers - sorry i disappeared - we live to fight another day

nanite LB... 

Hahaha..... I did the same thing for my little Sis (the crazy one). Wish I hadn't bothered now.

RIght.... I have to be up in six hours to brave a seven hour round trip car ride with an appalling driver! I may see you tomorrow night, I may not.

Night all

Oh.....and congratulations everybody!

And commiserations Menty.

Nanite Ducks.... 

remember...  cool, distant, unemotional...      and just watch his increasing irritation... and know he will be ranting about you to your sis tomorrow night (another reason to keep it text book civil... so he can't give any sound examples of why you is bad or against him)

Night liverbird and Ducky

and remember Ducky.. if all else fails plunge your hands into his chest and make him watch as you rip his heart out.. it's the only language these people understand

er.. didi I say that out loud


Z.

Tis woosh time

Night All



Z.

I bloody love you on fridays Z!!  hahahaha!


night night

So, where is everyone, nursing celebratory hangovers I bet! CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME

I can't believe Rachel went over Dave, that man is despicable and yet he is still there!!!!

Morning Mental

Rachel was a dead cert really - JJ lives to whine  fight another day


As for Dave... maybe he gets a bit of celestial help


Z.

I know Zaph, but rewarded for being a self opinionated, up his own a**e, arrogant twonk, it's not right and Daves still there too

Just kidding, I want Dave out of there more then JJ1 at the moment

page 3  *promply gets pert boobs out*

Are you a bit cold, Lockes?

Evening


Z.