Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.