gilberra

This is a very common presentation for LD. By definition a LD means you are at least average in some areas while below average in others. In a fair number of cases people with LD are gifted in some areas and score above the 90th percentile on some subsets of WAIS. :)

If that's the case then saying that she is scored in the 10th percentile is saying something even worse. The article is referring to her having psycho-educational testing which is lengthy and expensive

It is more complicated than that. You can obtain accomodation for exams where software reads the question to you are alternativley a proctor reads the questions to you. The proctor can also serve as a scrib and record your answers. In all likleyhood you can obtain the same accomodation for the CRNE

I was just curious what others' opinion is on this. Do you think that somone who reads at a grade 5 level can function as a nurse at the bedside ? (Of course there are a variety of roles nurses function in that might be more suitable for a nurse with literacy problems, however, one of the articles explains she is going to be on nursing resource team (bedside nursing on an as needed basis, moving from department to department). I am not trying to be mean and actually have an LD myself. But I also have a chronic illness and have required admission to hospital and am questioning how I would feel about my nurse having problems with literacy. http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/549576--the-sky-is-the-limit-for-mac-grad http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/nursing/home_story47.shtml I had heard in the past that the college of nurses of ontario allowed a person disability accomodation to write their liscensing exam and then denied them registration based on the nature of the accomodations required. (I don't know the specifics.) This young lady is likley awaiting writing her exam.