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Well, had the meeting 1hr and half long!! Basically, she said if I wanted to be treated the same I should ask to see my records and ask that any mention of AS or anything else other then dyslexia gets removed! That way becuase of only dyslexia there is no reason to treat me any differently! Yes that may work but that would also mean that the lectures who dont know me that well dont know what to expect! Also, if I did this there would be no reason for 1-1 support at a TA level and an LSA who wont go offsite and has no idea about subject knowledge would be adequate! So, I have decided that I will not do anything then play question time with them until I get the real reason for me not being allowed to take part in activities or residentails. and then when they say the reason I can then decide whether they are discriminating! Not the outcome I had hoped for!

There are many stages to a BTEC. BTEC Levels This may help you understand a bit more! I am doing a BTEC National Certificate which if I get distinictions its evalvent to 3 A levels

Well spoke to a few of the people who went on the ski trip today as it was they first day back since they were skiing. One of the girls told me that a group of them werre talking and saying thats it a pity I wasnt there with them! The lecturer who was running the trip turned round and said well she wouldnt have got that much out of it and she would have been holding the group up and preventing them from learning more! Sarah the one who was telling me then turned back to him and started saying that I may not have learnt as much as everyone else but I would have achieved alot more then everyone, and if they had got me 1-1 I would have been able to go and also then have been able to have worked at a slower pace! When we were watching the vidio today I was trying to put on a brave face and showing I was pleased that they had a good time! After this I was told that my lesson were cancelled for tomorrow to allow those that went to chill out for the day! I DONT NEED ANOTHER DAY OFF! Jokerly said to my TA not another B*oody day off, I am going instane! One of the lecturers who were also on the trip and heard what was said between sarah and the lecturer whilst on the trip. Invited me to go walking with her and a group that she was teaching tommorrow! Maybe things have started sinking in! But i did also make the appointment for tomorrow at 2:30pm with the head of student services! Lets hope I dont get

Well, I have decided that I feel so rubbish tonight and my slef essteem is really low! All because college keep putting extra barriers in the way of me achieving! I have had it! I am going to speak to Student services tomorrow and see what they say, I am also going to ask about how I go about asking for an investigation into these cases of discrimination! I am very sure that they are at fault! I may also ask the lecture whos in charge of the Basic Expedition Leader Award what aspect of the learning diffuclties/medical conditions that are not as searious as we thought! He has a problem with! If there still is a problem I should not be stopped from going and then the college are then to get me the support I require to allow me to fully participate in the activities! I just gotta hope I keep it allthoughter as at the mo when ever I speak about it I get all I am that angry that I am not being allowed to particpate in soemthing that has changed me for the better!!

I know how you feel! Although, this lie isnt going to hurt anyone phyiscally or mentally, nor is it going to casue trouble again as you are not likely to see this person again nor is he going to remeber you when he has sobered up!

I need a little help please! Long story cut short! I am in my second year of college. Last year the college refused to take our group off site as apprently insurence meant I had to be on one-one ratio! This year in all my lessons I am on one-one ratio with the same person, she is also a qulified outdoor instuctor so can come off site meating the one-one ratio, this has meant I can go Kayaking, surfing, climbing ect. The only reason I need a support is to explain things differently and repetitivly. Which I completly understand and I acshally get on well with her anyway and can ask her if I need to know what is happening next ect. In September we were told about a Ski Trip residentail that is taking place in Jan 08 in Italy, I put my name down and everything all was going well paid money in and then in Nov the guy running it turned round and said I couldnt go on the grounds of asthma (which we had a dx of but turns out to be panic attacks, at the time we thought it was asthma) anyway they were still letting others with asthma go! Turns out the guy running it wanted to tak his girlfriend who would also be an extra female leader, this meant my TA couldnt go as a consiquence nor could I! Anyway I excepted this (well kind of!) becuase yes at the time we thought it was asthma give them the benifit of the doubt. This week the gorup are skiing on the trip I wasnt allowed on so I have been given the week off ! But been thinking, that I am fed up with how I keep get treated as another example coming up is the Basic Exped Leader Award that has a residentail aspect of it, the college are turning round and saying i cant go no reason given but apprently I am not allowed to do it! Anyway, I have decided to write a letter explaining that I feel discriminated by them and feel that I should be allowed to take part in the activitys that everyone else is being offered and the fact of the one-one shouldnt come into it!!! Thats down to them to sort?? Thing is I want to put part of the DDA in it to show that they are discriminating and should be making responable adjustments such as paying the TA to do weekends to allow me to do it as it is there policy I have to have one-one! I can manage without if the teacher is willing to understand AS a lil more! Does anyone know which part of the DDA I can quote to back this up?? Thanks and sorry its so long, I am just feeling really low about myself as a conquence of how college is treating me!

You can download from It*nes but I dont know how it works although there is a not so legal site called (a citrus fruit that green beginning with L) and then add 'wire' on the end. I hope that makes sence! If you google the L***wire then there is a link use that and then download it onto your computer, You can then serch for the music you want! Sorry i really cant explain things!

Thats a hard one! As it was Outdoor Education through Scouts that changed me and gave me the confidence to talk! Very litterally! Now I am at college studying Outdoor Education to become an instuctor specialising in special needs. So I know first hand how this week away could help your son! But then again, food will be an issue if they are cooking for themselves it may be entertaining, at college residentails we have to cook on tragia's this limits the food you can cook! Also the food your son like will proberly not be to everyones liking and vice verser. How would you and the school feel if he was to help the cook? and then he could have a bit more of a say? Sorry, if thats no help! What about seeing if you could get the list of food that they will be eating and then he is prepared for what he is to eat?

My Green glasses are amazing! I dont fall off kerbs, walk into things or people nor fall over my own feet anymore! Well I say anymore I dont when I had my glasses which the dog has recently munched on! So now a new pair on order:( Mums bank card doesnt appreciate it! Anyway, back to what I was saying sounds like he may benifit from glasses not any type the magic glasses!

My Green glasses are amazing! I dont fall off kerbs, walk into things or people nor fall over my own feet anymore! Well I say anymore I dont when I had my glasses which the dog has recently munched on! So now a new pair on order:( Mums bank card doesnt appreciate it! Anyway, back to what I was saying sounds like he may benifit from glasses not any type the magic glasses!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday Daniel!! Sounds like you had an amazing day!!! And your 4x4 sounds ace!!

Sorry all, computer died just after posting, so I have had to get a new computer! Anyway, I got them and went for it!!! WOWOWOWOW what can I say I have had them for a couple of weeks now and no walking into doors or anything! I was explaining to mum the difference and said 'you know when your walking down the road and you step of the kerb without knowing' well that doesnt happen any more, and 'you know when your walking and you bump into people' it doesnt happen anymore either! Mum just laughed and said wow it really does make a difference then! Since then I have been running up and down the stairs (to my TA's disgust!) and then we went on this litle ferry that goes from Gosport to Portsmouth and normally I am all over the place I went across without holding on! I also ran up and down the stairs while the ferry was moving I love them sooooo much!

Thanks all! I got the phone call this morning to say they were in I just gotta wait until I can collect them! Going to ask Mum if she can collect them on Monday as I have a hike that afternoon and then skiing on dryslope on the tuesday! I love your quote Meggzie 'just be you're self and proud of it!' Iam going to remeber that when someone says something!

Sorry havent posted in a while! Anyway spoke to optitions about wearing my tinted glasses more and not just for reading. So I am now waiting for them to be made with a tint and not a reading prescription these are due for collection tomorrow! But, I am really nearvous about wearing them, in class I wear them with out a second glance of anyone any more but I never wear these around college until now! How do I deal with any comments? Will I get funny looks? Are people gonna be more annoyed that they cant see my eyes not that there ever looking at them any way! I am really nearvous and thinking is this really such a great idea? I wore my reading ones with a tint in all my classes last week and didnt walk into any tables, fall of any chairs, walk into any doors nor fall over! Its like the dyspraxia has gone! Hope this stays this way! I may be looked upon being a lil (mad) round college! Ummm...... really trying to weigh up the pos and negs now

Teenage Girls!! We are not all bad are we???

What did you decide to get wrote on it??

Yeh! That looks really smart and in blue bonus! Your like me cant tolerate things on your skin like bracelets but can totelerate things tight on wrist!

http://www.icegems.co.uk/awareness-38-c.asp heres a very relevent one!!

Thats exactly what I was thinking! I just dont get it!

Hi I have aspergers but not the offical dx of this! College and mum agrees but no dx. Anyway thats a different matter! I am 17 and female well, I am at college studing outdoor education on my second yr of a 2 yr course. Ummm... dont know what else to say! Now thats a first!

Love the fishy goings on at yours! And Happy Birthday Jay!

The Guy who helps out is proberly a student teacher in the dept whom his tutor works in! An collective detentions were used on our tutor requally! It apprently collective responability and the idea is to make the people who play up in class feel bad about getting the whole class kept in at break or as you said late for lunch! Me, personally is completly against it, the mentality of the people who were ruining it for others tbh dont care about other people in the group!

I have been reffered to a consultent bout the asthma as I have had 6 admissions to hospital this year when I have been away from home and not even one mild attack at home!! This was confussing all the doctors so this was the reson for the refferal. Anyway saw him and he dint have many ideas either so I got sent for lung function tests and allergy test (horrible I tell you!) On Thursday we went back for the results found out I am allergic to tree and grass pollon. This would answer the attacks while away (normally in a field!) but I can go camping with family fine! He said it must be panic attacks then and not asthma!!! He said if I am getting overloaded during the day then I am going to bed with this on my mind, giving the reson for waking at 3am stuggling to breath! Now getting refered to physio to get tought breathing excersises and letters to college and scout leaders asking that I not be put under so much pressure on camps and be given hour or so in the evening to cam before bed! Anyone else have expirence with Panic attacks as it seems it may be AS related by getting overloaded with information during the day, at home if I cant cope I loose it but when away I feel I cant for fear of being thought a weirdo! Theres no winning here!

Basically, Its a wordprocesser like word but very basic you cant change the font well you can change the size small,med,large! Ummm....it doesnt help handwriting at all and you just type away in class. At the end of the lesson/day/week whatever you attached a A to B USB lead into the back of the AlphaSmart and then attach the other end into a computers USB drive and transfer to word by pressing send on the alphasmart. It is then on the mointer of the computer this allows you to edit the fonts into a style you want.And when your done press print on the computer. To send it direct to printer, put the USB into the AlphaSmart and the other end into the printers USB socket and press Print on the AlphaSmart. I recomend sending the work to computer and opening in word first as the spellcheck on the AlphaSmart is very basic. The battery life is really good charged about once a month with ful school days use!! Can be ran of plug if needed. Also it is very durable its been in my clumsy hands and still alive as well as being thrown across the classroom numerous times (Please note it was not me throwing it) Also, there was an accident in science where water got tipped on it. Put on radiator overnight by morning not a problem!! Dont reccomend trying it again though!! Same again any questions! Ask away