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Hi I'm 20 years old and I was diagnosed with dysgraphia when I was about 7. Through out the years I noticed things about myself that I really didn't understand. Things such as well obviously I always struggled with writing and any tasks involving my fine motor skills but I was also finding it other issues that didn't involve my dysgraphia such as my clumsiness always bumping into people, my visual memory sucked I never was able to remember any kind of sequences, I struggled with speech, and many things like that. Recently I looked into Dyspraxia and found that I had a lot of the symptoms. Discovering that I have Dyspraxia.
Anyway, now to my problem. So recently I was employed to be a dog bather at Petsmart in which they were going to pay for me to go to grooming school once I did a certain amount of dogs. The thing is everything to do with grooming is fine motor skills. I love me job but i'm struggling so much with even just holding clippers and scissors. As a bather I only have to cut the hairs in between the dogs feet which is easy for everyone else there but I can't seem to get it. My salon manager has been putting me down every chance she gets which doesn't help me whats so ever. I really really want to be successful as a groomer. Grooming school is in a month and im scared im going to fail because of my poor motor skills and my struggle to remember visual sequences needed to do patterns on a dog. Does anyone have any advice to how I can work around my dyspraxia. I need this job and want so badly to finally be able to be able to succeed time is running out. Any advice will be so helpful.
16/01/2012 02:16:54
Clare
I think you should disclosure your dyspraxia to the school, and i'm sure they will be more then happy to help you find a way to learn in a way that helps you.
Wow, dog grooming. I've been too scared to even attempt to try grooming, so i'm college in the fall to be a vet assistant. I am 26, and suffer from this.
29/01/2012 09:58:54
molsonsnobunny24 (Member)
defently talk to the school if they know whaqts going on they are ussally mmore than happy to help achive this goal
08/02/2012 01:38:20
blackwolf (Member)
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