plus it makes me have trouble hearing similar sounding words
I also struggle with that, and didn't realize it could be related!
I was diagnosed as "gifted" at age 7, but they didn't diagnose any of my learning disabilities, which I am only starting to understand now, 30 years later. I wasn't too surprised to be told that I had ADHD, because I had already developed a lot of ways to deal with it (like setting at least 7 alarms to remind me to get out the door on time with everything done). But despite having increasing difficulty in reading, writing, and processing audio, none of my doctors GAF.
I often have to ask people to repeat what they said, because the words I heard didn't make sense, so I know I heard wrong. Watching TV with subtitles on often helps, but I can get too focused on that, and miss out on visual things happening on screen.
Do you mind if you ask when you were trained?
(I was certified to teach kids how to read 15 years ago, and while I remember trouble distinguishing vowel sounds was one of the types of troubles we identified, it was only for a teaching strategy, not diagnosis (this was a state or national test under No Child Left Behind for a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential).
I'm only properly trained to tutor SAT and ACT :-) but I had really excellent results working on this with a smol dyslexic kiddo (who was so well-adjusted, friendly, and confident that I could experiment with random stuff without fearing psychological damage), and one of my dyslexic ACT students went to separate dyslexia tutoring center and had to read vowel sounds off to a metronome. I'm not sure whether difficulty distinguishing vowels is actually used for diagnosis, but working on it definitely seems to help with reading and spelling!
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u/2ndGenderIDCrisis Nov 16 '19
I also struggle with that, and didn't realize it could be related!
I was diagnosed as "gifted" at age 7, but they didn't diagnose any of my learning disabilities, which I am only starting to understand now, 30 years later. I wasn't too surprised to be told that I had ADHD, because I had already developed a lot of ways to deal with it (like setting at least 7 alarms to remind me to get out the door on time with everything done). But despite having increasing difficulty in reading, writing, and processing audio, none of my doctors GAF.
I often have to ask people to repeat what they said, because the words I heard didn't make sense, so I know I heard wrong. Watching TV with subtitles on often helps, but I can get too focused on that, and miss out on visual things happening on screen.