Comments on: Dyslexia and pre-med http://LDBlog.com/2005/12/22/dyslexia-an-pre-med/ News, commentary, and resources about Learning Disabilities Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: LDblog » Accomplished people who happen to have Learning Disabilities http://LDBlog.com/2005/12/22/dyslexia-an-pre-med/#comment-591 LDblog » Accomplished people who happen to have Learning Disabilities Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:06:02 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/LDBlog/?p=129#comment-591 [...] Link to Ms. Bergin’s article. Links to previous posts in this series: a golfer, Sir Jack Stewart, a pre-med student…. [...] [...] Link to Ms. Bergin’s article. Links to previous posts in this series: a golfer, Sir Jack Stewart, a pre-med student…. [...]

]]> By: JohnL http://LDBlog.com/2005/12/22/dyslexia-an-pre-med/#comment-531 JohnL Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:55:29 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/LDBlog/?p=129#comment-531 Liz, thanks (as always) for your sage comments. I need to go through that "blather" and learn from it. I agree that the lists of successful people with LD serve to counter the notion that LD stands for lazy and dumb. Also, people who are interested in this topic should read Larry Silver's book; he's a good example! JohnL Liz, thanks (as always) for your sage comments. I need to go through that “blather” and learn from it. I agree that the lists of successful people with LD serve to counter the notion that LD stands for lazy and dumb. Also, people who are interested in this topic should read Larry Silver’s book; he’s a good example!

JohnL

]]> By: lizditz http://LDBlog.com/2005/12/22/dyslexia-an-pre-med/#comment-515 lizditz Thu, 22 Dec 2005 20:06:24 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/LDBlog/?p=129#comment-515 1. There was a lot of blather in the blogosphere previously about LDs and professionals, specifically about extended testing times for the MCAT and the law school admissions tests. Blather: http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2004/11/make_way_for_st.html http://www.dynamist.com/articles-speeches/forbes/disabilities.html <blockquote> How much you know isn't the only thing that matters in school--especially when you're training for a demanding professional job. What patient wants a genius doctor who can't focus in a distracting environment, reads so slowly that she can't keep up with medical journals or tends to misspell drug names on prescriptions? </blockquote> http://www.gruntdoc.com/2004/11/smart_but_slow_or_med_school_g.html 2. I don't know why those lists of famous high-achieving dyslexics abound, but they do. My suspicion is the lists serve to counter old myth of dyslexia=stupid. 3. Toby Cosgrove and Larry Silver are two eminent physicians with dyslexia (both self-identified as such). Larry Silver, in the postscript to his book The Misunderstood Child, talks about the informal accomodations he benefitted from in medical school. 1. There was a lot of blather in the blogosphere previously about LDs and professionals, specifically about extended testing times for the MCAT and the law school admissions tests.

Blather:
http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2004/11/make_way_for_st.html
http://www.dynamist.com/articles-speeches/forbes/disabilities.html

How much you know isn’t the only thing that matters in school–especially when you’re training for a demanding professional job. What patient wants a genius doctor who can’t focus in a distracting environment, reads so slowly that she can’t keep up with medical journals or tends to misspell drug names on prescriptions?

http://www.gruntdoc.com/2004/11/smart_but_slow_or_med_school_g.html

2. I don’t know why those lists of famous high-achieving dyslexics abound, but they do. My suspicion is the lists serve to counter old myth of dyslexia=stupid.

3. Toby Cosgrove and Larry Silver are two eminent physicians with dyslexia (both self-identified as such). Larry Silver, in the postscript to his book The Misunderstood Child, talks about the informal accomodations he benefitted from in medical school.

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