Personal Narrative: My Experience With Learning Disabilities

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I received low grades the first summer semester of college that I had taken and I had not yet learned how to study and I didn’t understand the impact taking summer classes and working two jobs at the same time would impact my performance. After I had been married my husband suggested that I should be tested for learning disabilities, I was tested and found out that I was dyslexic and, with that information started to learn how to study to retain the information that I was reading and learned how much work I had to do to retain the information. I also received low grades the first semester back from having my first baby, I feel that I had taken time-consuming classes along with the lack of support from both my husband and family as well as not …show more content…

I had made a choice that semester that I could not continue attending school without more support from both my husband and family to be successful with my studies and to achieve my academic goals and meet the needs of my baby. I upon quitting school for a time I started to work in an as a Certified nurse’s assistance for a residential treatment center, my responsibilities were to complete initial intakes and notify the nurse to come in and complete her part of the assessment, I was doing vital signs on those who required it, helped monitor and reported any adverse or abnormal behaviors of clients to nurse, went with clients to doctor's appointments, I assessed and did first aid upon injured clientele, to clients to the emergency room as needed. I worked as a Certified Nurses Assistance for three years, I was promoted within that time I had additional responsibility on top of assisting the Nurse. As time went by, they put me in charge of working with the dietitian and training of the staff in procedures. When the company became Jacho accreditation they had me had me work with the dietitian, attended the doctor’s appointments and worked the head nurse to go over changing the current policies to meet the Jacho

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