1.
Use google as a spell check - often word cant figure out the word im trying to spell but if I copy or type a sentance into google it finds the right sugession. eg. I have done this with this sentence here:
2.
Dictation softwere - get some help from DSA (disabled student allowence) to buy some helpful software. Dragon is some software that will type as you talk. You mentioned that when you start thinking about what you want to write about it makes sense in your head, but when it comes to writing, it doesn't.. I know this one all too well. Sometmes just verbaly dumping your ideas out using dictaion then tweaking it from there can be helpful.
3.
Use ChatGPT to help you restruture your sentances. Sometimes when I dictate my sentences/paragraphs they are long and wordy. I often use ChatGPT to make it more succinct by typing "rewrite: ...copy and paste your sentence/paragraph..."
4.
Use your mobile phone to help you learn in better envrioments and in samller chunks. Sitting at a desk can be a very lenghty past time for a dyslexic. We spend way more time sat hunched over a loptop than most because of how long things take us and screen fatage as well a mussle/nerve issues (RSI, back ache ect) can be a real problem. Use your phone to make notes on while sat on the sofa or on the go. you can even dictate or use voice notes on your phone to do this so spelling isnt such a problem. Use your phone at the gym, on the train/bus, sitting in the garden to read listent to lectures rather than sitting at the laptop. Even better, if you have the tech, use your phone to read out loud recomednded reading, digital textbooks or papaers when not on the laptop as well as when on it. You can far better chunk your learing when you break it up like this. I would higly recomend asking for Speechify Text to Speech Audio during your DSA assessemnt so that you can use your phone to read you alsomat any document. not all text reader apps do!
5.
Do some research and know what you want before having a DSA assessemnt. The DSA make suggetions for softwrear that I personaly have found to be hudreds of pouds worth of waist of time! One thing they didnt offer was the Speechify app I mentioned which allows you to have alomst any digital document read out to you both on your laptop or on your phone! You can even convert Kindle books into Audiobooks by importing them to Speechify. This would have been the single stand out best app they could have offered me but i didnt know about it when I had my assessment.
6.
Dont rely on assisive soulution providers - You DO NOT have to use the providers suggeted by DSA for your hardware or even the softwrare I dont think. I would advise steering well clear of them! The DSA choose these providers by way of a cheepest winns the contract. The DSA do not hold any providers they have chosen accountable to any kind of consumer rights or customer care so if you have any issues with your items you will have no support from the DSA and the suppliers tend to not to offer you consumer rights in the same straigjt forward way as you would when buying from an internet or highstreet store. You can still claim back any DSA money you would have given to the supiler yourslef and keep your consumer rights! My advice AVOID the 3rd partys they suggest. Have everything in your own control, find out the returns policys, cooling off periods etc and make your own purchases. Be particularly wary of an organization called Assistive Solutions!
7.
Use Outlook calander to shedule EVERYTHING. yep breaks too! Time blindness is common with Dyslexia as well as ADHD. Outlook cal will send you a notification 5/10 mins before the next thing you should be doing arrives. this has been so helpful espessly if you have live online leactures that you are responsable for remembering to attend, as well as deadlines and remebering to take screen breaks! x
1.
Use google as a spell check - often word cant figure out the word im trying to spell but if I copy or type a sentance into google it finds the right sugession. eg. I have done this with this sentence here:
2.
Dictation softwere - get some help from DSA (disabled student allowence) to buy some helpful software. Dragon is some software that will type as you talk. You mentioned that when you start thinking about what you want to write about it makes sense in your head, but when it comes to writing, it doesn't.. I know this one all too well. Sometmes just verbaly dumping your ideas out using dictaion then tweaking it from there can be helpful.
3.
Use ChatGPT to help you restruture your sentances. Sometimes when I dictate my sentences/paragraphs they are long and wordy. I often use ChatGPT to make it more succinct by typing "rewrite: ...copy and paste your sentence/paragraph..."
4.
Use your mobile phone to help you learn in better envrioments and in samller chunks. Sitting at a desk can be a very lenghty past time for a dyslexic. We spend way more time sat hunched over a loptop than most because of how long things take us and screen fatage as well a mussle/nerve issues (RSI, back ache ect) can be a real problem. Use your phone to make notes on while sat on the sofa or on the go. you can even dictate or use voice notes on your phone to do this so spelling isnt such a problem. Use your phone at the gym, on the train/bus, sitting in the garden to read listent to lectures rather than sitting at the laptop. Even better, if you have the tech, use your phone to read out loud recomednded reading, digital textbooks or papaers when not on the laptop as well as when on it. You can far better chunk your learing when you break it up like this. I would higly recomend asking for Speechify Text to Speech Audio during your DSA assessemnt so that you can use your phone to read you alsomat any document. not all text reader apps do!
5.
Do some research and know what you want before having a DSA assessemnt. The DSA make suggetions for softwrear that I personaly have found to be hudreds of pouds worth of waist of time! One thing they didnt offer was the Speechify app I mentioned which allows you to have alomst any digital document read out to you both on your laptop or on your phone! You can even convert Kindle books into Audiobooks by importing them to Speechify. This would have been the single stand out best app they could have offered me but i didnt know about it when I had my assessment.
6.
Dont rely on assisive soulution providers - You DO NOT have to use the providers suggeted by DSA for your hardware or even the softwrare I dont think. I would advise steering well clear of them! The DSA choose these providers by way of a cheepest winns the contract. The DSA do not hold any providers they have chosen accountable to any kind of consumer rights or customer care so if you have any issues with your items you will have no support from the DSA and the suppliers tend to not to offer you consumer rights in the same straigjt forward way as you would when buying from an internet or highstreet store. You can still claim back any DSA money you would have given to the supiler yourslef and keep your consumer rights! My advice AVOID the 3rd partys they suggest. Have everything in your own control, find out the returns policys, cooling off periods etc and make your own purchases. Be particularly wary of an organization called Assistive Solutions!
7.
Use Outlook calander to shedule EVERYTHING. yep breaks too! Time blindness is common with Dyslexia as well as ADHD. Outlook cal will send you a notification 5/10 mins before the next thing you should be doing arrives. this has been so helpful espessly if you have live online leactures that you are responsable for remembering to attend, as well as deadlines and remebering to take screen breaks! x
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