Looking for someone with LD willing to be interviewed
How do you cope wit the demands of your daily life and work?
What strategies would you say helped you be successful in life?
Do you have any advice for other adults with LD?
Adults with LD
[quote]I am a college student taking an education class, which focuses on exceptional individuals in the classroom. I have learned what a child with LD can experience in the regular classroom and would like to know what it is like for an adult with LD in the workplace. I will use the information to share with my peers. The interview does not have to be long, just those questions and anything else that you would like to include. It can be done through open forum or email.[/quote]
Re: Working Adults with LD
“How do you cope wit the demands of your daily life and work?”
Poorly, thank you! :lol:
Actually, over the past 30 years I have developed habits which work so well for me that I don’t even think about them. I try to keep my house as organized as possilbe so things are easy to find. I review the week in advance each Sunday and make a overview type of list of what I need to do each day that week. For ie on Monday I need to pay the bills, go to the parent/teacher conference, and make a cake for a party on Tuesday. On Tueday I need to go to the party and wash the clothes. Then I review each day and make a more detailed list. Monday: I need to find my checkbook, stamps, evelopes, list of question for the teacher, get a cake mix including the stuff you have to add to the mix like eggs. These items are cross referenced to master lists—for example the cake mix and eggs would go on a grocery list that I add to as I think of stuff. The note about laundry on tuesday might remind me I need soap so that would be added to the master grocery list. Then each morning I pick up that days list and do it. It sounds complacted but it works…
“What strategies would you say helped you be successful in life?”
I live and die by my list…and I’m dyslexia so no one else can even read them. :lol:
“Do you have any advice for other adults with LD?”
In all seriousiness…It would be presumptus of me to give advise to other adults. Each adult finds his or her way. If a child were struggling I would give this advice: We all have our own strenghts and weaknesses. We, perhaps more so than non LDer, must work to discover these strengths and weakness. Use your strengths to help others and don’t ever be ashamed to let others use their strenths to help you with your weaknesses.
ME
Yuly,
If you gave us a little more info like what the interview will be used for, how long/many questions there is, what format (ie e-mail questions, questions in an open forum, phone, in person), you’d get a better response.
ME