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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 263973" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>It's great that you are taking responsibility for your grades and schooling now. If your parents aren't helpful, find a school counselor you can talk to or a sped teacher. </p><p></p><p>You can't use your IEP to raise your prior grades but you CAN talk about your dyslexia and your struggles with learning in your college essays and try to put your poor grades into perspective. As for college, you can consider starting out at a community college which are often easier to get into. Many of them are starting to have special programs for Learning Disability (LD) students. The tuition is more reasonable as well. If you do well, you can transfer to any 4 year college and they will never look at your HS grades.</p><p></p><p>My husband is dyslexic and struggled all through school. Nobody knew what it was when he was in school (he is in his 50's) and he was considered stupid and lazy. He attended community college for 2 years and then switched to a top public college in our state. After that, he attended law school and works now as an attorney. He took the bar exam multiple times until he passed it.</p><p></p><p>My 12 year old son is also dyslexic and attends a private school. He uses a laptop and is now starting to work with a word recognition/dictation program so that he can hopefully go to district for HS (his goal). You might want to get a laptop and use voice recognition as well.</p><p></p><p>Other things you can get in your IEP are copies of class notes, the right to use books on tape or large print books to make reading easier and modified assignments - like giving an oral report instead of a written one. Make sure that spelling exemption is added to your IEP as well. And if the teachers are not following your accomodations, speak to your sped teacher or the sped office.</p><p></p><p>Good luck to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 263973, member: 3493"] It's great that you are taking responsibility for your grades and schooling now. If your parents aren't helpful, find a school counselor you can talk to or a sped teacher. You can't use your IEP to raise your prior grades but you CAN talk about your dyslexia and your struggles with learning in your college essays and try to put your poor grades into perspective. As for college, you can consider starting out at a community college which are often easier to get into. Many of them are starting to have special programs for Learning Disability (LD) students. The tuition is more reasonable as well. If you do well, you can transfer to any 4 year college and they will never look at your HS grades. My husband is dyslexic and struggled all through school. Nobody knew what it was when he was in school (he is in his 50's) and he was considered stupid and lazy. He attended community college for 2 years and then switched to a top public college in our state. After that, he attended law school and works now as an attorney. He took the bar exam multiple times until he passed it. My 12 year old son is also dyslexic and attends a private school. He uses a laptop and is now starting to work with a word recognition/dictation program so that he can hopefully go to district for HS (his goal). You might want to get a laptop and use voice recognition as well. Other things you can get in your IEP are copies of class notes, the right to use books on tape or large print books to make reading easier and modified assignments - like giving an oral report instead of a written one. Make sure that spelling exemption is added to your IEP as well. And if the teachers are not following your accomodations, speak to your sped teacher or the sped office. Good luck to you. [/QUOTE]
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