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Article #181: Learning Disabilities - Breaking Down The Complex Walls

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So what is learning disabilities really story about a young child that grew up in
all about? The following report includes a poverty-stricken home. The child was
some fascinating information about raised by a paranoid schizophrenia, and
learning disabilities--info you can use, mothered by a woman that was defeated by
not just the old stuff they used to tell the man she called her husband. The
you. mother taught this child that boys were
From the day we are born, we have the better than girls' were since this is how
ability to see, hear, smell, touch, and she was forced to believe. The mother
even relate to the people around us. A also let the child know that a child is
newborn baby can sense its mother when to be seen, and never heard, and
she is near. The baby has the ability in sometimes seeing the child is a waste of
the womb and after birth to sense when a parental time.
mother is sad, happy, depressed, tense The father taught the child that talking,
and so forth. Therefore, we can see crying, over happily, showing any
learning begins when the egg is futile. emotions at all was a source of trouble.
If a child is reared by, a mother that The child feared the father in that if
suffers bipolar disabilities the child she showed any emotions that angered him
will learn to act out irrationally, since logically or illogically. She would reap
mother is an example. If the father is an punishment.
alcohol, the child might learn to drink The young child was taught that education
when the emotions are threatened. A child had no value, other than a system that
might even resort to alcohol if he or she was controlling the lives of others. To a
feels happy for no apparent reason. The degree, this man was right since the
child may believe as he or she was taught National Education Association is
that happiness is punishable. constructed to rule, rather than to focus
What children observe and hear are on helping each child learn individual.
examples that help determine the Later, as the child grew she observed
direction a child may adhere to in life. children mocking, mimicking, criticizing,
This does not mean that the child grew up and hurting others. At the same time, she
in a dysfunctional home with parents that watched as the teachers stood by
lack the ability to support the family. punishing the children that fought to
Rather, we have alcoholics, bipolar, protect their self against the bullies.
mental illnesses, and other complexities She observed the leaders and how they
in homes of all occupations. behaved when complex problems presented
There is not one person singled-out in self. The result was war!
life to suffer more than others do, so it Now the woman could have learned to act
appears. Once this child reaches the age out as the people around her acted, but
to attend Head Start he or she will meet she had her own beliefs and this she
the person that will teach them a new set stood firm that no one would tear her
of rules. The rules may include happiness down. As you can see, this woman had a
is a good thing, while irrational tremendous struggle ahead, since
thinking is bad. complexity was attempting to hinder her
Now the child is confused because mommy learning ability. Yet she learned by
breaks out into uproar when stress hits investigating, analyzing, comparing,
and dad gets drunk every time he looses contrasting, observing and so forth to
control. Dad appears happy under that find the facts to prove her stand in
mechanism that temporarily brings relief, life. Now look carefully at this
but the child knows that the happiness is illustration and tell me.
false pretense. What do you see or what you have learned
Therefore, the child evaluates the new from the story? Can you see that learning
teachers rules comparing them to the is effective when we stand up for what we
rules his parents forced him to believe. believe based on facts to prove our
Where were his beliefs? How do his allegations? If you cannot see, then
beliefs fall into the picture? continue the complexity of understanding
His beliefs are rarely seen because learning disabilities.
everyone that teaches us, teaches us to Now you can understand why there's a
believe in accordance to their learning. growing interest in learning
You can see that there's practical value disabilities. When people start looking
in learning more about learning for more information about learning
disabilities. Can you think of ways to disabilities, you'll be in a position to
apply what's been covered so far? meet their needs.
In this article, I'm going to tell you a






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