{"id":15004,"date":"2014-02-20T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15004"},"modified":"2014-02-20T00:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:22:32","slug":"this-story-makes-me-so-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15004","title":{"rendered":"This Story Makes Me So Mad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s a <a title=\"Joy as Cannock teenager proves driving theory wrong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/2014\/02\/19\/joy-as-cannock-teenager-proves-driving-theory-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nice story about a young girl<\/a> who passed her driving test &#8211; after being told she\u2019d never even pass her theory test.<\/p>\n<p>However, the story makes me angry for a number of reasons. First of all, dyslexia is absolutely no bar whatsoever to either passing <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dyslexia\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 264px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 264\/267;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dyslexia\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/dyslexia.gif\" width=\"264\" align=\"left\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\">the theory test or to being a safe driver once you have. At worst, it is an obstacle which has to be overcome (it\u2019s pretty obvious that difficulty in reading or comprehending words is going to be an issue, but it doesn\u2019t have to be a terminal one).<\/p>\n<p>Dyscalculia isn\u2019t something I have any direct experience of <em>as far as I am aware<\/em>. I have quite a bit of experience teaching dyslexic pupils, but for all practical purposes dyscalculia is simply \u201cdyslexia with numbers instead of words\u201d. Apparently, about half of all dyslexics are dyscalculic as well, although dyscalculia can be manifest by itself, so I have probably experienced it without realising.<\/p>\n<p>I find that a significant number of my pupils either have dyslexia, or have been tested for it for specific reasons while they\u2019ve been at school. Some are only \u201cmildly\u201d dyslexic, whereas one or two have been severely so. I always <a title=\"Here are the names of some of the many talented and accomplished individuals who are dyslexic, or had traits associated with dyslexia or related learning styles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dyslexia.com\/famous.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">point out that many famous<\/a> \u2013 and very successful \u2013 people have been dyslexic, and it didn\u2019t stop them. My favourite one \u2013 though not many pupils have heard of her these days \u2013 is <a title=\"Susan Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Hampshire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the case of Susan Hampshire<\/a>, who was a famous actress when I was growing up.<\/p>\n<p>So it is both surprising and very frightening that in the 21st century someone like Abigail Elstone should have apparently been written-off so early in her life (when she was seven) by the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s a nice story about a young girl who passed her driving test &#8211; after being told she\u2019d never even pass her theory test. However, the story makes me angry for a number of reasons. First of all, dyslexia is absolutely no bar whatsoever to either passing the theory test or to being a safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,88,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-education-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}