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My Megan, age 7, is very artistic. She has been drawing things that amaze us since she was 2. She loves to draw. She sometimes wont go to bed unless she gets thru drawing something. She will draw s a way to remember things, like we take pictures. She is very detailed in her pictures. Megan is having trouble in school with speling and reading, but I have to wonder if it is just because she would rather draw her thoughts. ya know? She is very "head-strong", and even though that can sometimes go the wrong way, I beleive it helps her be strong with her disability. Thanx

Hi Tom
My son is now 23 and his school years were a nightmare. His reading, maths and and spelling were atrocious. My son was great at art the teachers never believed he did the work he did. He is great with practical things he is now a motor mechanic and doing well. When he left school he did well in his theory but at school he was hopeless. A lot of his problems were confidence he had a very poor start his first teacher treated him very badly. I am wondering if those who do have a problem are LOBPI.

Im 29 LOBPI. Ive always been an excellent speller. Im almost fascinated by spellings of words-kind of strange. Ive even won a few spelling bees...Id also rather be reading or writing rather than math.

I had to come in on this post!

I am 63 right OBPI and have always had a major problem with spelling. I went to a very competitive high school and due to the problems I had with spelling failed English for 4 years straight. It was all realated to spelling. I discovered when I began to type on an electric typewriter that I spelled better. Both of my parents and all of my sibling were great at spelling and did everything in their power to help me. I started writing with my left hand and it was assumed that I did so because the right was injured. I was forced to write with right bpi hand. I will never truly know what hand is dominate. I have Horner's so the right eye is affected. The tests for which foot etc do not work because the entire right side of my body is weaker and my right leg is affected also.

About a year or two ago many adults on the OBPI adult board posted about spelling problems. Many said they did have a problem - I wonder if those who lost their dominate hand were the ones with the spelling problems. I love words and vocabulary was never a problem nor was reading. Just spelling!

I am artistic and earned my living doing payroll accounting so business math was not a problem.

When I was in school I had difficulty taking notes off the blackboard. I would leave a word out so my Mother taught me to count the words in the sentence. This of course slowed me down along with the problem of trying to write with my bpi hand and the cramps in my arm and hand. I often have to use spell check because I lack confidence in my spelling and worring about words. I will re-read a post and then notice I left a word out of my sentence... I find that very frustrating at times. I am sure this is also related to vision and focus and the difficulty I had in school.

Often the teacher would be annoyed because they felt I was slacking off and not doing my work. I was told I was lazy and did not work to reach my full potential. I am much older now and no one would ever call me lazy... hyper active perhaps but never lazy. They had no concept at how difficult some things were. Perhaps I was so focused on penmanship I failed to process the notes I was writing or it could be due to fact I lost my dominate hand.

Each of my hands have assigned tasks (thanks to my Mom) It was the only way she could force me to use both hands.

I wonder if it is related to Horner's and focus problems with my right eye. I have been reading about many focus problems creating difficulties and even ADD problems with children...

Nancy I know is a good speller but others I know have the exact same problem I have. This would be and interesting study. Alex is also good at spelling but did you loose your dominate hand? I wonder if that is the real issue?

I wonder if it goes along with forgetting we have something in our hands...???

just my two cents

Kath

Oh it gets alot crazeryer than that My brother are left handed and so is my sister my Erbs is my left you just found out why I ask the Gestion unreale IT is a braian thing or not isnt a great .we will never know witch arm we were ment to yous this was just a Idea about sides of the brain control Art and Math and spelling I for one I am so amazed by what I read I thank God no One here picks On Me Because I spell So BAD.But as you can tell I love to help Peolple no matter what I all so know there is a lot of people that do need help and ALL we can do is Try.