[LD_CPA]

How did you manage to adapt to the work world with it?

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[Anonymous]

like ADD?

[LD_CPA]

I think ADHD is considered a learning disability, but I was thinking like dyslexia or a processing disorder.

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[mla1169]

I don't have a learning disability but do have a physical disability that is not obvious to people. Only advice I can offer is to do some serious research on ADA accomodations recommended for the particular disability (most of which don't even draw attention to the presence of a disability per se, some come across as a personal preference!) and to use and ask for whatever accomodations are available. Makes the entire work environment much easier for the employee with the disability and those around him/her when everybody is able to work up to their full potential regardless.

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[new_york_city]

Got to love the kids that get straight As and take adderall. True learning disability my ass. Most over prescribed drug to the point that the gov't won't even allow any more production in 2011. I think its BS when kids get extra time even in college and take adderall. If you got into college then suddenly sophmore year get ‘ADD' because you are too lazy to study, its such bullshit. They definitely need to stop handing out prescriptions of that crap.

[LD_CPA]

@new_york_city, what if you have an LD other than ADHD such as dyslexia? I have dyslexia and processing issue so it takes me longer to process questions I'm reading. My accommodation on the CPA exam: extra time.

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[new_york_city]

@LD_CPA Don't get me wrong, I definitely think you should get get time for certain learning disorders like dyslexia. I'm just speaking about adderall and ADHD from what I knew from college. Over 80% of the people I know that were prescribed did not actually have ADD and got really good grades. Its not like they needed it, but used adderall and their diagnosed “ADD” to get extra time. So they didn't have ADD, had extra time and adderall. Thats when its just cheating.

[Anonymous]

@New_York – Yeah, that's definitely true…I remember a lot of kids in college who had “ADD”, when in fact they were just not disciplined enough to sit down and study. While I acknowledge that there are legitimate learning disabilities that should be accommodated, I also agree with your contention that ADD doesn't manifest overnight. With that said, it would actually give me a great deal of satisfaction to continuously outperform students who were trying to gain an advantage on me by taking academic performance enhancing drugs; study steroids, if you will haha. As far as other disorders go, I am in full support of accommodating people who suffer from real LDs. As for the overnight ADD-afflicted, I think that eventually, even if they pass the exam, they will be crushed in the real world.

[LD_CPA]

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[LD_CPA]

Amazingly when I google About this topic, the only thing that comes up is care Programmed approach (CPA) and this thread

I can't be the only CPA out there with an LD. The perception seems to be that LD/ADHD “cheat” as though it's some kind of fake Diagnosis

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[jokami]

LD, I was diagnosed with a mild case of dyslexia, but my parents didn't want to medicate me. So they took there time and always made me read and write more than any normal kid… I won't say it is completely gone, but it is manageable. You really just have to create the discipline.

But I really have to concentrate on the test..

But many wrong answers in high school and college… when for example the answer was 86 and wrote 68 and vice versa…

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[Felix The Cat]

Hi everyone,

I have a LD, struggled since elementary school, but throughout my academic career I have been persistent, and had to study longer than most.

I have a question if they would extend the 18 month rolling rule if you had a LD?

If they expect disabled candidates to complete all four exams within the same time as non-disabled candidates, then it is nothing but discrimination.

Please advise.

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