My story

Hi, everyone.

How is everyone doing today? I am going to share my story about my learning disability and being vision impaired so please bear with me and if you have any questions please put them in the comments below. I will first talk about my vision impairment and then I will talk about my learning disability.

When I was in elementary school I started vision therapy roughly around third grade I believe. My vision therapist was amazing and her name was Mrs. Dawn. She would push into my classes like in my resource room when I was in third grade so I didn't have to miss anything and she made me feel like she cared and explained what we were doing and stuff like that. She came with me to middle school which was 7th and 8th grade. In 7th grade, I had Mrs. Dawn would come into my English class to do vision therapy so I never had to miss class. However, In 8th grade, I had a vision teacher named Ms. Pam and I didn't like her at all because she never came into my class to do therapy and I was also missing something important she would get mad at me when I was late to see her and one of the classes I was always missing was reading lab and it was getting so frustrating. Then 9th grade which was high school I needed vision therapy and I had Ms. Pam again but it was my check out so I didn't have to see her anymore. I know it sounds bad.

Next is my learning disability

I found out more that I had a learning disability in 9th grade because I was more aware but in 7th and 8th grade I was in spilt classes which meant that in some subjects I was in 15:1:1 classes and in some subjects I was in regular-sized classes. I also had extra time on tests and separate locations for tests and tests read. I had a band teacher in middle school who helped me a lot especially when I was bullied and frustrated with myself whether it was just being hard on myself or it was about the tests. I also started band late people thought I couldn't take band or Spanish because of my disability.

9th grade I was in 15:1:1 for my four major subjects and then band and Spanish were regular classes.

10th grade I was in spilt 15:1:1 for two subjects and regular for two subjects plus band and Spanish.

Then 11th and 12th grade I was in all regular-sized classes for the four major subjects and band and Spanish were also regular.

I had a lot of favorite teachers that pushed me when they needed to and encouraged me when they needed to and I still remember conversations that I had and I can go deeper if you want me to.

Thank you for your time.