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I hope all is well with you Emily. I talked with you over the last couple of month. I was having a hard time with the College of Western Idaho meeting my Reasonable Accommodations. I eventually got that worked out but it did not make me feel good going there anymore so I decided to transfer to a bigger school Boise State University because I thought that they would have more resources to accommodate me; I was wrong. Speaking to you put my heart at ease on the legal definitions and I could tell that you truly care about others and have a great heart, spirit and energy about you this is why I am directing this message to you.

I suffered from Compound Complex PTSD, possibly TBI though the tests have been inconclusive due to the Doctors not running
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145962/ This article specifically talks about that they take those who have had PTSD sometime in their life but no longer have it notated in the study as PTSDLT Regular participants and PTSD patient currently struggling PTSD the study has shown that those PTSDLT scored 24 on a memory exam those who have never had it scored 22 and those currently exhibiting PTSD scored 14. Part of the information on this page refferances another study specifically about electrontic devices are counterproductive to comprehension. (Ashcraft M.H., Kirk E.P. The relationships among working memory, math anxiety, and performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2001;130(2):224–237.) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11409101 which says and I quote, “Overall, the results demonstrated that an individual difference variable, math anxiety, affects on-line performance in math-related tasks and that this effect is a transitory disruption of working memory.” There is also a large study that says the same thing: by San Jose State University http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=slissrj and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035512001127 this is why the Netherlands and other top performing academic countries do not implement such

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