Resources for people who never got early intervention?
I was diagnosed with NVLD when I was in college, around 2003, I think.
My neuropsychologist gave me no real suggestions for how to cope besides "read into a tape recorder and play it back" to help with my reading comprehension -- which, by the way, does NOT work for me, because I start to treat audio recordings that aren't music like background noise and tune them out, even when I'm actively trying to listen. (What I've recently discovered is this sort of can work, but only if I am following along with the text in front of me, and that was only because I felt like experimenting with audiobooks and following plot. Way to go, doc.)
I've recently had major communication issues with one of my (now possibly ex-) friends, because ze tries to explain things to me and I *do not understand*. Nor do I know how to have hir explain it to me so that I can comprehend what ze's trying to say.
Clearly I didn't magically pick up all the coping skills and workarounds I could have if I'd been diagnosed as a child. I feel really lost. I literally don't know where to start, nor do I know exactly what I need help with without having a list of common NLVD related deficits in front of me.
So, do y'all have resources you can point me to? My normally great google-fu has failed me.
Or do you have suggestions of things you've learned that help you deal with a particular problem NVLD presents for you?
Thanks!
My neuropsychologist gave me no real suggestions for how to cope besides "read into a tape recorder and play it back" to help with my reading comprehension -- which, by the way, does NOT work for me, because I start to treat audio recordings that aren't music like background noise and tune them out, even when I'm actively trying to listen. (What I've recently discovered is this sort of can work, but only if I am following along with the text in front of me, and that was only because I felt like experimenting with audiobooks and following plot. Way to go, doc.)
I've recently had major communication issues with one of my (now possibly ex-) friends, because ze tries to explain things to me and I *do not understand*. Nor do I know how to have hir explain it to me so that I can comprehend what ze's trying to say.
Clearly I didn't magically pick up all the coping skills and workarounds I could have if I'd been diagnosed as a child. I feel really lost. I literally don't know where to start, nor do I know exactly what I need help with without having a list of common NLVD related deficits in front of me.
So, do y'all have resources you can point me to? My normally great google-fu has failed me.
Or do you have suggestions of things you've learned that help you deal with a particular problem NVLD presents for you?
Thanks!