Quote From stressed:
It sounds as though you have some good plans, I really hope that it works out for you - it is terrible that someone can effectively be blocked for having spoken out and I really hope that you don't suffer for that in anyway - they don't tolerate bullying in schools, but for some reason it seems as though its ok in academia (although I must confess I have been so very fortunate in that it isn't something I have seen or experienced!)
My son also suffers terribly with organisation and although he had a statement he was continuously marked down for it and for his handwriting - constantly, I lost track of the times I roasted teachers over it! He is ok in exams in that he can think straight in them and it doesn't affect him too much, but his muscle tone is so low and his handwriting so bad through that and his fine motor skills that I worry that he will suffer as he moves on :-( Dyspraxia is a horrible thing and totally misunderstood and underestimated in its impact in academia!
I hope I can get the CDL and that, seems the OU would have me on board, I told them about the BSc and PgCert and they said it is seen as an hons combined,
Believe me, I am shocked to know that it is tolerated and whenever when word started to get out in the department, people looked at me as if I have 5 arms or something, plus he also sexually harrased me as well, I mean - you don't expect a lecturer who is now HEAD OF DEPARTMENT (jointly) to do questionable things like bullying and keeping an eye on me as if he was my prison guard now do you?
As for the dyspraxia, does your son have the read and write software which lets you listen to what it is on spellcheck, I get a giggle with the pronunciation of the science words! But I am OK at organisation and likewise my handwriting was awful, now it is readable but I write BIG! its amazing to see how it can affect one person in another way and not in another. I am little miss organised with it comes to notes! also tell your son to use a certain colour of folder for a subject, that makes life so much easier as if you know what colour is for what - you are more than organised, I use coloured folders and does he use them coloured overlays?
BTW I was in a seminar today and in the medical school and I have a feeling it is getting pretty known about the calling up the lecturer as people there look at me oddly - I feel I have almost lost my career as no one even wants me in the labs either it seems :-(
