Posted by IsoM on October 30, 2002, at 20:23:32
In reply to Re: So back to cybercafe's question...., posted by utopizen on October 30, 2002, at 19:56:16
Yeah, my health care wouldn't cover the costs either but I found the services of a pretty good pschologist that works for the local school board. He tests kids for learning disabilities & other pschological disorders. Because he could use the extra money, he also works part-time in the evenings, hnadling adults. The testing cost much less that way & it was still considered expert testing.
I saved for the testing as the label of 'disability' made for accomadations for me in the Disability Centre at our university. Because of my 'ability' to drop data from lists in y head when working on problems I'm not familiar with, I was able to request time & a half for exams. I was also able to work in a quiet room by myself on exams without any distractions & where I could talk problems & calculations outloud to myself. Talking over problems make them much easier to do for me & even if I did it in a whisper, would be distracting to other students.
I never needed to do it with the more right-brained subjects like geography, geology, & English but I sure appreciated it for the left-brained sciences & math exams. It made all the difference for me.
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