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.
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Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit.
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.
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.
It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.
Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the world.
People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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