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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A reader. A scribe. Etc. What kind of career would ever allow for such accomodations? Will your child become a judge who can',t reAd and write? An elementary teacher who can't read? A journalist who can't write? Hard to understand this?[/quote]

You are clueless.  There are lots of interventions people use every day in their jobs that you may or may not realize they are using.  There is a very famous lawyer who is dyslexic.  He can read, but I would imagine it takes longer.  In interviews, he has mentioned that he does to use notes at trial.  He memorizes everything.  So yes, it is indeed possible.

[b]Oh, and by the way, want to know the one thing I do NOT do everyday at work?  Take tests!!!  Someone's ability to take a test without accommodations has nothing to do with their ability to do a job.  [/b]The tests are a rough guess of how someone might do in college.  Plenty of kids with LDs do just great in college (and after), despite getting accommodations on tests.  [/quote]

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