with everyone.
Attitudes have been getting
better in the last so many years
but we still have a long way to go.
People who are not disabled were
viewed as normal but what normal
at the end of the day?
Everyone is a human being.
A learning disability is a limited amount of intellectual, ability and difficulty, which may affect education, employment, household skills, shopping, managing money, socializing, personal skills, looking after one’s self etc. However’ not everyone is the same, like everyone, people have different strengths and weaknesses to one another. This may depend on the disabilities the person faces and even the person themselves.
It can happen to anyone thankfully not to everyone at any time. It could be before birth, during, any time, any age after.
It can affect the body or and the brain, which maybe caused by a brain tumor, injury, trauma, accident, illness etc, depending on the learning disability etc or and people, caused by whatever has happened to the Mother or and the child.
The person may take longer than other people to do things or not at all. Even that may vary those to the person and how their problems may affected them, also depending what is they are trying to do.
Again levels of support they need may depend on what they struggle with and how much.
Difference between learning disability and difficulty is this is dis the difficulty, a bility is ability the strength. Difficulty is the struggle, what we need support with.
Our abilities are our strengths but our difficulties slow us down.
Each one of us faces them in different ways
As for special needs, we are not intending to be a
center of attention,
we do not see ourselves as anyone special,
it means we are facing the difficulties,
we are needing
the support for our needs.
It also means special education,
meaning special education needs,
needing support with our education.
We need support for when what we need it for not when and what we don’t.
Disabilities, difficulties and special needs can happen to anyone at any time but thank goodness it does not happen to everyone.
It can happen before, during or any time after birth, caused by accidents, illnesses etc, which affects the body or and mind.
What is learning difficulties, Special needs and disabilities?
What is a learning disability?
It can affect lives in huge different ways such as household skills, shopping, money, health, education, work, social lives, friendships, relationships, family and more.
It is easy to get confused with disability, disability, difficulties and poor mental health.mental illnesses.
People with disabilities can face poor mental health but don’t need disabilities necessarily to face poor mental health, the same either way round.
It is not always necessary that you need to face disabilities, difficulties or and special needs to face poor mental health.
As for the difference between learning disability and difficulty, learning difficulties does not affect intellects as learning disabilities do.
As I said this dis is the difficulties. Special needs means needing support for difficulties.
Abilities mean the strengths.
The difficulties slow us down. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/learning-disabilities/
Saying this is the case with everyone.
Attitudes have been getting
better in the last so many years
but we still have a long way to go.
People who are not disabled were
viewed as normal but what normal
at the end of the day?
Everyone is a human being.
A learning disability is a limited amount of intellectual, ability and difficulty, which may affect education, employment, household skills, shopping, managing money, socializing, personal skills, looking after one’s self etc. However’ not everyone is the same, like everyone, people have different strengths and weaknesses to one another. This may depend on the disabilities the person faces and even the person themselves.
It can happen to anyone thankfully not to everyone at any time. It could be before birth, during, any time, any age after.
It can affect the body or and the brain, which maybe caused by a brain tumor, injury, trauma, accident, illness etc, depending on the learning disability etc or and people, caused by whatever has happened to the Mother or and the child.
The person may take longer than other people to do things or not at all. Even that may vary those to the person and how their problems may affected them, also depending what is they are trying to do.
Again levels of support they need may depend on what they struggle with and how much.
Difference between learning disability and difficulty is this is dis the difficulty, a bility is ability the strength. Difficulty is the struggle, what we need support with.
Our abilities are our strengths but our difficulties slow us down.
Each one of us faces them in different ways
As for special needs, we are not intending to be a
center of attention,
we do not see ourselves as anyone special,
it means we are facing the difficulties,
we are needing
the support for our needs.
It also means special education,
meaning special education needs,
needing support with our education.
We need support for when what we need it for not when and what we don’t.
Disabilities, difficulties and special needs can happen to anyone at any time but thank goodness it does not happen to everyone.
It can happen before, during or any time after birth, caused by accidents, illnesses etc, which affects the body or and mind.
Dyslexia awareness.
When most people talk about Dyslexia, they think people with Dyslexia cannot read and write, that is not the case. We just have difficulties along the way, which may be for letters the wrong way round for eg; bad, dad, same with say numbers 23, 32.
Some may get there left and right mixed up.
Get confused with bs and ds for example; even psychologists and qs.
Miss words out of sentences.
Struggle to understand what they have read.
When they read small print may feel to them as if words are jumping off the page screen etc.
They may not remember what they read or and they may have only remembered some of what they have read not all, the same with listening too. These days with so much IT most people watch a lot of videos etc, wouldn’t it be interesting to know how much one can take from watching a video or tv say compared to listening to someone directly talking to you face to face? How much can you pick up?
Some people’s” concentration gets affected easily, like mine, such nosies off IT devices, door knocks, a lot of people talking etc, not that I am complaining as these things have to happen at times but this how certain learning difficulties etc affect people.
For most people it can be a struggle for them to read a whole book and that is one of my problems too. Although I read just a few whole books but I forgotten which ones I did read and what they were about.
Sometimes I tend to review books write when I am reading and research. Even those who can’t read and write have knowledge, tell stories etc. Never judge a book by it’s cover.
Similar to Dyspraxia, Dyslexia has positives such as being creative and talented in different ways, maybe in other areas too.
https://exceptionalindividuals.com/jobs-for-dyslexics/
How can you support people with Dyslexia?
Before I do anything as a person who has faced
Dyslexia from my experience, assessments by checking people’s strengths and weaknesses.
supporting though study and work-placements; extra time in exams, at least up to half hour.
accessible studying and exam materials, like colored paper, large print, different colored over layers, certain size font easy for them to read etc. Always ask the person what is accessible for them to start with.
What is Dyspraxia
Ben’s Mum is concerned because only she knows his struggles. Ben worries in case people think he is stupid if he asks others for help a lot. A lot of people are offering support in areas he can cope with rather than cannot, which what is concerning his Mum.
Ben can read and write but he not remember or understand what he’s read, he needs support aids, easy read, accessible information, clear for all.
He has Autism as well.
What sort of help does Ben need? What I have written in the text is just examples of support, maybe you can research online, the library etc.
What is concerning Ben’s Mum and why?
Therefore, you may be wondering, what does Dyspraxia have to do with Saliva gland cancer ? That is understandable. To be honest nothing really, do not to face Dyspraxia to face Saliva glad cancer. However’ me and family are not sure how long I had the lump before my Mum discovered it at the age of seven but I have always struggled with my month eating.
swallowing etc anyway with my month and tongue, whereas the lump was inside my throat but all the same they all add up and make you wonder whether not both problems started during while I was born. Therefore, I am not only speaking for me but for others who may have faced the same if not similar.
Due to the amount of difficulties people face with Dyspraxia, it causes us a huge amount of Anxiety and Depression, which we can get frustrated with what we do struggle, which where of right tools, aids, support etc needs to be around. This could also mean mental health support and for people all ages needing to know why they struggle. Those who do not know they face Dyspraxia, funding needs to go into assessments, Diagnosis’s and the support they do need.
Also training and qualifying, those who want be physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist, which is what could have done with from childhood and plenty other people who have always faced Dyspraxia and other conditions etc. I just hope today’s generation and others to come get better support.
On the positive side people with Dyspraxia can be creative in some areas of IT but not others. Saying that I have found that there have not been many IT courses. Mind you the Covid lockdown did not help as everything was limited.
I can only speak for myself and my strengths, which is power point, word processing, creative writing, drawing, painting etc, which are likely to be different for different people.
Dyspraxia needs to be taken very serious
as it is a physical hidden learning difficulty
that is not noticeable,
which is why it is a hard
condition to understand.
It is not illness or disease,
it is long -life condition that affects
people’s lives mentally as well
physically.
It can be linked to Autism.
However’
with the life time conditions being
such a hidden learning difficulty,
it is understandable why it can be hard
for others to take seriously.
Where people with Dyspraxia
can be misunderstood as
clumsy, spill ing something
on purpose etc;
for example but all the same people with
Dyspraxia need to be understood.
No one can really tell unless they spend a
lot of time with the person, unless they know
them really well like family etc.
Dyspraxia is caused by a brain injury or a
stroke, in fact it is similar to a stroke where
one side of the body and brain is weaker that the other.
In my case it is my left hand side but
some may be affected on their right hand side.
It can slow people down doing physical skills
such as sewing, sport, cooking, housework,
even shopping, carrying, lifting, cleaning teeth,
tying shoes laces and more.
It may affect such skills as road sense, driving, riding a bike.
Coordinate, grip, etc.
With drinks for example; they be able to only do one thing at a time, which may slow them done.
Such as only carrying one drink at a time because the one side of the body and brain may be stronger than the other, depending which side of the brain is damaged. With me, it is the left hand side of the brain, which affects the left hand side of my body mostly.
Support and treatment a person really needs from as soon as it is aware they face dyspraxia, the younger they are the better. Psyiotherpy or and Occupational Therapy, maybe also muscle exercises etc to try to make them stronger.
Mentally it affects reading and writing in
the same way as Dyslexia where other
conditions link such Dyscalculia https://www.understood.org/en/articles/what-is-dyscalculia
https://study.com/academy/lesson/dysgraphia-math-difficulties-accommodations.html
It does not stop people living their own
life or learning with the right support, but on
the positive side they can be creative,
different people in different ways.
However’ it is important to except
anything from anyone because there
different forms of
Dyspraxia.WWWhttps://exceptionalindividuals.com/about-us/blog/what-are-the-three-types-of-dyspraxia/
https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/blog/signs-and-symptoms-of-dyspraxia
https://www.dyspraxia.ie/Adults-with-Dyspraxia-DCD
Motor skills difficulties, for eg dressing,
cleaning teeth, cutting fingers and toe’s nails
, chopping up vegetables and more.
Verbal impact speech difficulties such as
stuttering, may be speaking too loud, quiet etc.
Oral difficulties moving the mouth and tongue,
keeping month and teeth clean,
gripping the toothbrush correctly etc.
To be fair over the years dental hygiene
has slightly improved to what it where
such toothbrushes as electronic toothbrushes
have been around for years. In fact,
I had one for my twenty - first just over
thirty years ago. Since then has been
such tools as water picks etc.
Looking at the research of forms dyspraxia,
I cannot see you can face one or the
as I face motor skills problems,
I stuffer with my speech at times and I may talk too loud or quiet at times,
I do not notice but others do.
In my case this is because, which
maybe too my dyspraxia.
My Mum noticed a lump when
I was say four seven years of age,
little did we know it was a lump
because it was only a size of a pea.
Mum noticed not me because
I felt nothing there to bother me at all.
My Mum
took me to the GP at time, he/she said,
can’t remember but anyway
they said it best left alone, it is probably a cystic.
At the age of twenty - three I was doing work
experience in an elderly peoples’ home,
l was on my lunch break in the staff room,
the cook had over cooked the strew,
I was struggling to swallow and felt the
lump getting bigger.
I was living Owstely in Shropshire at the time,
I shared flat with two young
women my age at the time
with learning disabilities
and we both had the same
support workers from social
services and one the support
workers took me to gps.
It was 1992,
I had my first operation
December 6th of that year,
the home Christmas, had
my first hospital appointment
in the new year, they told me and,
my Mum it was a cancerous lump
does not spread but I have to limp
glands out, then fifteen days of
radiotherapy, where I felt more
I’ll with the treatment than the
cancer thankfully I came out of it.
Since having had that operation,
due scar tissue at times food,
drink tends to the wrong way at times,
which can tend to cough and choke
but it is not every time I eat and drink.
Dyspraxia study.
Ben is seven years old who was diagnosed by a an Occupational Therapist. This was a written report that outlined Ben’s condition. He was struggling with physical skills like doing up his buttons, tying his shoe laces and more.
Dyspraxia and me.
I had been working for the University Of Wolverhampton for eleven years, lecturing students professionals on and off, such as learning disability nurses, Paramedics, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists etc.
Dyspraxia needs to be taken very seriously, it’s not an illness or disease, it is an hidden long term psychical learning difficulty. It can affect people mentally as well as physically but the seriousness of Dyspraxia is the psychically hidden more so how it may affect people mentally.
It does not stop anyone doing anything at all but it just slows people down where causes us to take longer than others to do things. It is not understood because people with Dyspraxia can walk and talk but it may not be the case for everyone who faces a learning difficulty and condition.
However’ it is important to except anything off anyone, it can vary from person to person.
I have lived with Dyspraxia for fifty four years since birth. To start with, it was unaware but research grew as the years went on. https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/blog/2018/10/08/dyspraxia-strategies-that-can-help
I was born very quickly, though lack of oxygen to the brain. I was hyperactive and I had Epilepsy asa child, it came back when I was thirty one and stopped when I was forty three. I have always had family support.
I feel it is very important for a person to be assessed and diagnosed as young as possible in order in hopes of getting the right support but it may be different for different people.
Psychical difficulty.
Difficulty doing up zips, shoe laces, looking after babies, children, getting dressed etc for example. This may cause people a lot of anxiety and frustration.
What is iDyspraxia? Dyspraxia (Developmental Co - ordained disorder) (DCD)
Dyspraxia is a developmental co - oration disorder which affects movement but not intelligence. However’ the condition may slow people down.
dyspraxia is a hidden psychical and mental learning difficulty, which affect balance, coordination, grip but affects reading, writing comprehension, math’s similar to Dyslexia but Dyspraxia also affects people’s physically, such skills as sport, learning to drive and more.
Mentally it can affect reading, writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation, comprehension, maths in similar way to Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia.
Cause.
If the person was born before 37 weeks into the pregnancy, prematurely.
Low weight birth, lack of oxygen to the brain, brain, injury, trauma.
It is unclear whether or not Dyspraxia is family related.
If the Mother was talking drugs or drinking alcohol.
Treatment for (DCD) Pysotherpy. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/developmental-coordination-disorder-dyspraxia-in-adults/
Types of Dyspraxia
Going by research I read on the types of Dyspraxia. I have face most of the difficulties in most of the types of Dyspraxia such as motor Dyspraxia jumping, skipping, running, dressing. verbal Dyspraxia speech difficulties, Oral dyspraxia, problems with mouth, throat, tongue, saliva, sallow ing etc.
Some these skills I have over come such as difficulties with holding my knife and folk, cutting up food etc.
Through out my life I have had my strengths and weaknesses in reading and writing, spelling, grammar, punctuation etc but I have always been weak at maths.
What is Dysgraphia?
Dysgraphia is a handwriting difficulty and disability, where they struggle to keep writing neat and tidy, where they lined paper with margins on.
Dysgraphia is a handwriting learning difficulty impairment.
People can read and write but
our writing may not be neat and
tidy without lines and margins on pages.
explaining thoughts on paper to make sense to readers,
planning and organizing our work, ideas etc.
we may struggle to grip pens and pencils.
We may try to avoid writing, drawing,
coloring as much as possible.
It affects the ability to create automatic letters,
numbers etc.
Dysgraphia May slow down people’s writing,
reading, tasks, coursework etc.
Chapter Chapter six What is Dyscalculia?
What is Dyscalculia?
When struggling to count money, we maybe able to count a pound in ten pennies, two fifty pennies, four twenty pence pieces, two ten pence pieces, but only able to count so far so we may put down all the money we have for someone to count.
Dyscalculia can cause memory problems so that may mean a lot of reversing for them, support homework as well as in class, which it maybe helpful if they know people out of school college etc, like friends, family etc who can maybe some support.
It is understood no one can help them during exams other than maybe reading the questions out, this may not be necessary your job but examiners should makes sure the papers are accessible as possible, whether it is on the internet or paper base.
Talk through with them what they are having difficulty with.https://www.dyscalculia.org/dyscalculia-therapy
Never discriminate people, dyscalculia like most learning difficulties slow people down. For example; a ten year old maybe normally getting to grips with fraction’s but someone of age the of ten with Dyscalculia, may be still struggling with adding and subtract. This maybe the case the same from say 5 to 105.
Never tell the person to say their times tables etc for eg; in front of the class unless they and you are condition the person has learned of by heart.
Most people who heard them may not see it as a problem but the person may feel embarrassed what people may think if they may mistakes, even though everyone makes mistakes, unless the person gives you otherwise. https://www.wlv.ac.uk/current-students/student-support/faculty-student-services/maths-support-centre/
When I was in school and college, teachers and tutors knew I faced difficulties in maths but were not aware of the possibility of me having Dyscalculia. I still don’t know whether or not I have the learning difficulty.
I remember saying to the Nursery nurse when I was about seven, I only have ten fingers, five on each hand, I can’t count anymore, she laughed.
She said, when say she said, she didn’t say it in my words but alone those lines. For eg; 5+3=8 put up eight fingers, the small number is 5, then 6, 7, 8. She even encouraged me to add on say my pencil, pencil case etc if needs be.
You could try to encouraging people to use cubes, a ruler, beads etc.
However’ always speak to the person and find out they feel comfortable to learn. Dyscalculia is a life time learning difficulty, some adults may not like child like for eg; different colored beads or tubes.
There may others ways to support them, they may feel comfortable.
Be patient because Dyscalculia slows the brain down, although it is understood you only have so much time as well, which means if today is not a good day, try another or someone else could help them.
However’ like other problems, there are different types of dyscalculia, some people may struggle more so than others.
It maybe hard to diagnose but without being diagnosed, it is difficult to know what support or and treatment people may need. It can be hard because the disability is not only caused by a difficulty.
Lexical. The person may find it hard to read mathematics symbols.
Graphical. Difficulty writing mathematics symbols.
Indeognostic. Finding it hard to mathematics relationships.
People with dyscalculia may have difficulty with subtypes, it is a mathematical learning difficulty.
Operational. Finding it hard to perform in specified math operation. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/29342
https://orbrom.com/dyscalculia-learning-disabilities
I understand everyone wants to achieve but most people with Dyscalculia may need a lot time to study for exams, so it may be a long time or not at all when they are ready and also needing a lot of support during in studying time. Do not consider maths exams unless them and you feel they are ready.
Dyslexia with numbers. Eg; difficulty with basic maths 4+2=6 6-5=1, 30-22=18, wrong answers, right answer 12. where people may get confused with maths signs such as * - + =
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/conditions/dysgraphia
https://www.sparklearningedu.com/dysgraphia-dyscalculia
Dyscalculia is a mathematical learning difficulty, that slows the brain down, maybe caused by.
It could be through brain damage, injury, trauma, stroke, even stress etc, where it slows the brain down. It affects concentration and understanding in maths and numbers but no one really knows what causes Dyscalculia.
whatever affects the way we think or try to think in the case maybe.
We find it hard to compose and decompose numbers.
Difficulty with numbers patterns..
We may forget maths facts.
We may face difficulties with difficulties with algorithms., number order, forgetting/ losing things, information, logins, passwords, numbers of deadlines etc.
counting, money, managing money, paying, bills, shopping etc.
poor memory, numbers, codes, addresses, passwords, directions, maps, left, right, upside down, back to front, navigating etc.
which also causes people a lot of anxiety.
It can happen to people all ages.
We may struggle with counting,
working out maths in our heads,
rounding up numbers, poor calculation skills,
measuring, weighing, mental maths, maths problems etc.
We may try to avoid anything to do with maths.
However’ there should be support and
help for maths and anxiety.
Visual - spatial memory
Reading clocks, telling the time.
Dyscalculia gives people a lot of stress, making people anxious even depressed. Dyscalculia is hard to understand unless you have learning difficulty yourself like anything really.
As for the cause, it is hard to know what the cause is. I can only go from my experience.
They may find it hard to count backwards.
Difficulty in estimating numbers.
Difficulty in remembering numbers facts, such as tables, minutes of the day, seconds in an hour, etc.
Value of numbers, half of numbers for eg; half of 50 is 25, multiplying, subtract, fractions, adds, division etc.
poor calculation skills.
We may avoid hard tasks.
Poor mathematicians ability.
Poor spelling
Finding it hard to borrow numbers.
Not good posture and fatigue.
Dyscalculia core numbers and reasoning difficulties.
Dyslexia memory
Dyspraxia visual spatial
Dyscalculia is not a learning difficulty that have difficulties easy to understand. Such counting takes longer for people with Dyscalculia than other people.
Numbers can be easily mixed up, missed etc. For eg; some people may struggle with understanding the word seven and number 7. For eg; 7+7=14 seven add seven is fourteen, which we may get confused on.
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