Dyslexia limited to advanced math and highly compensated, how many chances of being rejected? How many chances for a waiver?

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Dyslexia limited to advanced math and highly compensated, how many chances of being rejected? How many chances for a waiver?
 
LineInTheSand said:
I have dyslexia. Can you explain "limited to advanced math and highly compensated"?
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I have a very mild form that interests only advanced math, I need no accommodation but the Italian law doesn’t allow me to refuse the IEP (I have a IEP whit suggestions but not mandatory accommodations), I only need more effort to study math and the use of the calculator for big problems and/or a white sheet of paper to write on. ( I can easily solve problems whit logical solutions and statistics, but I need more time and effort to study arguments like quadratic equations, rational expressions, or proportions)
 
LineInTheSand said:
I have dyslexia. Can you explain "limited to advanced math and highly compensated"?
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What kind of dyslexia do you have ( Dyscalculia, Dysorthography, and so on...) how did you deal whit it? How was life in the academy whit dyslexia? Do you have any advice?

I'm happy that even for those who have dyslexia there's hope to be accepted into service academies :)


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images.jpg I Just discovered that General George S. Patton was dyslexic and graduated from West Point
 
Greeneye22 said:
What kind of dyslexia do you have ( Dyscalculia, Dysorthography, and so on...) how did you deal whit it? How was life in the academy whit dyslexia? Do you have any advice?

I'm happy that even for those who have dyslexia there's hope to be accepted into service academies :)


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Honestly, I'm not sure. I'll need to check and I'll let you know. By the time I was at CGA I had pretty well compensated for it. Word processing probably helps (thankful for the red lines). Academies are pretty heavy in the math department. Honestly, ADD was harder to deal with over the years. Academies are challenging without those fun curveballs, so don't be afraid to get help (the earlier the better, because once you start digging a hole, it's hard to get back out).

As slow as I am at reading, I read a lot, but that really happened post-college. Now I enjoy it. I work in public affairs, which involves a good deal of reading and writing. I just have to check my work more often, and more thoroughly.
 
Thanks for the information, If I will ever get into West Point I would like to attend the International Affaires Major (International History, Human Geography, and Arabic are very interesting as well) and the Terrorism Studies Minor. How did you deal whit the DODMERB?
 
So Greeneye22, we've been in contact...I AM DoDMERB....so mine will be the most official answer you'll get after I review the documents sent. trolling further will be meaningless, though folks will reply with their best intents :wiggle:
 
I have dyscalculia. I can do business math and medical math and use a calculator but when they started using letters instead of numbers I was done. Algebraic formulas to me look like a jumbled mess. As a kid I compensated for my reading disability by reading a lot. My grandmother had a set of World Book encyclopedias and I read then constantly. I could tell you the 1973 GDP for Zimbabwe. The second biggest reason I wanted to join the Navy was to visit the countries I had read about. I actually got to the point of a type of speed reading where I can read a page forward and backward at the same time kind of like a human scanner. That sounds weird I’m sure but that’s the best I can explain it.
 
This discussion is giving me a lot of hope. Before I thought that the military career was nearly off-limits for those who had dyslexia (I thought that in the military they prefer to don't have dyslexics because are considered a burden)
 
Devil Doc said:
I have dyscalculia. I can do business math and medical math and use a calculator but when they started using letters instead of numbers I was done. Algebraic formulas to me look like a jumbled mess. As a kid I compensated for my reading disability by reading a lot. My grandmother had a set of World Book encyclopedias and I read then constantly. I could tell you the 1973 GDP for Zimbabwe. The second biggest reason I wanted to join the Navy was to visit the countries I had read about. I actually got to the point of a type of speed reading where I can read a page forward and backward at the same time kind of like a human scanner. That sounds weird I’m sure but that’s the best I can explain it.
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Wow, that's great, congrats for making it, your stories give me hope there's a chance :)
 
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