Hi. A couple of people have responded to your question and I am wondering
if
you feel like your question was answered? You got a couple of ideas about
software that might help you, and I would add that you might like to use a
program like WebReader (from CAST) to use text-to-speech readback to help
you
monitor your work while or after you write. Several people mentioned using
speech recognition for writing (that's what this listserv is about), and
this
might also help. But did you want other information?
If you want to learn more about dysgraphia, you should check out the LD
Online site (www.ldonline.org). Certainly, the "speech impediment" you
describe COULD be related to an underlying learning disability that might
be
affecting your work now in other ways. Nonetheless, you sound like you want
some strategie to address the problems you are experiencing, so let us know
if there is something more specific you are looking for.
Thanks for writing,
Bob Follansbee
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Word for Word Project
Navigating Knowledge Project
Education Development Center
In a message dated 9/5/00 1:43:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org writes:
> Hi, I am going into my last year of high school and for two years in
> english
> when it would come time to write an essay I would wind up with crummy
> marks.
> The teachers would think I was not paying attention and I would work
very
> hard. They didn't think I knew the format to writting, which I do and I
> totally understand it. Apparently I can never get my writting to make
> sense.
> Sometimes I even notice that when I am writting an exam and I look at it
> afterwards that words are only half written.(IT seems that when I do not
> think about what it is that I am writting and write free reign it seems
to
> be better) So for my last year of high school I would like to know if
there
>
> is maybe some explanation for this or maybe I just can not write well.
> That is when I remembered dysgraphia from an episode of "Degrassi High"
> where they told Joey that he had a learning disability. Also when I was
> younger I had a speach impediment; my brain was thinking to far ahead
and I
>
> was rushing my words basically compacting them ex: spoon would come out
as
> poon. So I was also wondering if these could somehow be related.
> If you would be able to reply to my e-mail with a little bit more
> information that would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you very much for having a website.:-)
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