Since I can remember, I have always encountered a difficult time reading and writing. And that for sure had to do with my learning disabilities.
From when I was an infant my parents knew something was up. I was not hitting the ‘milestones’ that babies should be hitting around a certain age. I was very late on making my first sounds and first words.
I recall around the age of two, my parents took me to a speech specialist to begin speech therapy. I went through several assessments to be finally diagnosed with childhood apraxia. Which is a disorder that children have problems saying sounds, syllables, and words.
I went to speech therapy three times a week for an hour session each time. I would work one on one with my teacher Ms. Kathy. We
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I once again went through rounds of assessments with special doctors to figure out what other disabilities I may have. And sure enough, I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. ADHD is a chronic condition marked by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and sometimes impulsivity. And dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding …show more content…
I was always behind in my school work. I felt left out because the other kids could read out loud so well and I could not. And when it took me so long to read a few pages of a book when my peers were almost done with the chapter. I mean, I could not even sit down to write a paper when my classmates were doing their essays in the span of a couple hours.
Growing up with learning disabilities was extremely hard for me. I was ALWAYS the odd man out. When my classmates got to do this fun math workshop called ACC math, I was sent away to the speech therapist to work on my skills. There was never a time that I felt like I fit in because I was either behind everyone else getting extra help or sent away to speech/reading