adult with dsycalculia

What is supposed to happen is the college is supposed to have a students with disabilities office that assists students in getting accomodations. Show up in a wheel chair then they might take you seriously as the are able to grasp the concept of a ramp. You need a plan of action but before that you need to accurately determine your strengths and weaknesses.You may have to take a smaller course load. You should also check to see if tutor services are available. As far as math is concerned, the best thing to do there is CHEAT!

Ball is right a number of points.

Universities I don’t think still take ld students seriously enough.

If your shcoll has a students w/ disabilities center, speak with them before your courses start if you can. Theyu should be able to help you put someplans together on how to handle the work load and most importantly how to handle the instructors that might not want to provide any accomodations.

I had problems wiht one or two prof’s in university and the learning center was a great help in working things through between myself and the prof.

and ya, ok„ cheating once in a while wasn’t dismissed! LOL

First, cheating is not OK. Get that out of your system; you have enough issues with self respect without deliberately adding that one. Anyone who suggest cheating is plain irresponsible.

As a college math teacher, I am dubious about using tutors. They don’t have any education background and are liable to get very frustrated.

What kind of college are you looking at and how much math do you think you will have to take? When you say you are okay doing math on a computer, do you mean a spread sheet. Does a calculator makea big difference for you?

Roger

Lindy,
I can totally understand where you are coming from. You will find some teachers will to bend over backwards to help you and then you will find teachers out there at are totally clueless and don’t know anything or want to know anything. They just want to get through their course with out any rocks in their boat. A lot of college has assessment books on the teachers giving them rating on how well they teach and also how well they work with the students. I know our college here does. That might help you also. I am right with Roger on cheating. If you start cheating then you will never understand Math or any other subject you are having problems with. There will come a time in your life you can’t cheat. You have to know it or not know it.If we start cheating we also lose our integrity.
I know our disability office here at the USU was not helpful what so ever. They gave me one test and basically told me I need to drop out because there wasn’t nothing they can do for someone with a memory disorder. I have to disagree with that. I know our brain is like a computer brain. We just have to find a way to program it or format it. It’s just some of us have a MAC brain…instead of a IBM brain….LOL…and which is really the best? That is debatable! .

I wish you luck! Please let us know how it turns out!

hey! I have a learning disorder. and I do what Ball says i have been doing it since high school i cheat … hey… i was cheated now its time to settle the score