Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9GMesV02695; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:40:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:40:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20031016223819.10898.qmail@web60303.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: jackie davis <rainboja100@yahoo.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:2748] Re: ADHD X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: O Content-Length: 1437 Lines: 34 Heidi wrote: "Too often in education we rush to identify a learner's difficulty as an individual deficit without looking at the whole context in which they are trying to learn (which includes our classrooms and instruction)." When my son, who has learning disabilities, I came to call them "learning differences." He processed information very differently than I do - or his teachers and his teachers teachers. There was so little effort to address those with various abilities (some with very high intelligence) who needed to be addressed in a different style. Though I must say that I was just as ignorant at it in my Mom role, I've watched others be able to come at communication with my now adult son and be successful! I think that we are still at the very beginnings of learning what these differences are, let alone how to pierce through. As a society, haven't yet cracked the code of brain processing and its many levels of complextiy, which does not necessarily mean that every difference IS a disability, but that we are still in the neanderthal age regarding this - and I'm also not saying that disabilities do not exist, but in a classroom without the right support for learning for these folks, the difference becomes a "disability"). Thank you for your thoughts, Heidi. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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