Do you have any Learning Disabilities?
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Everyone has learning disabilities, some common enough and severe enough to have names (like Dyslexia). The question is: Do you have any? If you're still in school, the counselor can help you with an assessment to discover and treat them. There is hope!
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to be honest no i havent. but if u do let me know. i like learning new things. well, sorry if i wasnt of much help!
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There are large lists of celebrities and other famous people with learning disabilities at these sites:\n\nhttp://www.schwablearning.org/Articles.asp?r=258\nhttp://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/disorders/famous.shtml\nhttp://www.dyslexiaonline.com/famous/famous.htm\nhttp://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/general/famous.html
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I'm confused- in earlier questions you posted a few weeks ago, you talked like you'd been identified as having a specific learning disability in reading.  You're in special education classes, so your mother had to gave permission for the evaluation and the placement, thus she knows your difficulty.  YOU ARE GETTING HELP.  \n\nYour mother may not know the specific issues you are having.  Talk to her and your special education teacher about these things so they can make accommodations for you in the other areas of your daily life.  You will be able to drive and all that with accommodations, as your 'functional literacy' can be built.  You can learn to recognize certain things you need to drive successfully and safely.  I know plenty of people with learning disabilities who function fine in daily living tasks (adaptive behavior is the fancy name).\n\nIf the problem is that you're confused as to why they didn't say 'dyslexia', please know that most states use the global term 'Learning Disability' since dyslexia is a medical term and we're not really allowed to use it at school.  Anyway, the word 'dyslexia' simply means 'difficulty reading' so getting services as a student with a learning disability is appropriate.
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I'm in Middle school and I'm blind in one eye and have limited vision in the other. There are a few hard parts 1 not being able to do somethings your friends and peers can, 2 not having teachers get papers enlarged so you can read them # having people hear "disability" and think you are mentally handicapped. But every day gives you new hardest things and you learn to work around them. My impairment has given me a lot of patients and helps me understand other people with disabilities.
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can anyone say dyslexia? lol\n(just pickin on ya!)
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Also try thinking of different words to use when you do your search.  Sometimes you have to change the way you phrase it.  Instead of searching for "learning disabilities" you might have to search for "learning disabilities and reading skills".\n\nInstead of searching for "Great Expectations" for example, yo might have to search for "study guide for Great Expectations".  \n\nIf you explain your problem more clearly we might be able to offer more help.
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It would be easier for people with learning disabilities to read and write in English if it was phonetic.  However, they would still have to deal with all of the language rules that we have that still confuse even the best readers.
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It sounds to me like you need a tutor.  You apparently have missed some important things in earlier grades and it is coming back to haunt you.  Also, if you have genuinely been trying, you might have learning disabilities.  Ask your teacher if the school will arrange to test you.  If learning disabilities are identified, the school is obligated by law to provide special help for you.  \n\nKeep in mind that learning disabilities, should you have them, are not an indicator of intelligence.  Many people with learning disabilities have very high IQs, like my daughter.  She is now an honor student in college and doing very well!  \n\nGood Luck!\n\nSue
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Well, depending on what kind of "mentally challenged" you mean, the answer could be yes or no.\n\nThere are several kinds of neurological disorders that result in a brain that is simply differently wired, with IQs in the normal range or higher. Because the brain is extremely adaptable, it will often compensate for deficits in one area by making other areas work more efficiently. That's why a blind person often has very good hearing: He doesn't have any visual input to process; so his brain specializes on the next most informative sense: Hearing.\n\nSome disorders are like that. ADHD is associated with originality; autism with very good visual-spatial skills; bipolar disorder with creative talent, especially in the arts. So people with these disorders are also more likely to have talents that people without them don't have. People with these disorders look at them as mixed blessings, or even as gifts.\n\nI don't know what it's like to be anyone but myself; so I don't know which disorders other than my own (Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism) fit into the category I just described. And I do consider AS to be a gift, in some ways. I'm socially clumsy, and I can't tolerate some sensory input; but I also have very good logical reasoning skills, I approach problems in original ways, and I have quite a lot of talents in my areas of special interest.\n\nBut all in all, people with psychological, neurological, or biological isorders that affect their mental functioning have one big problem: They are square pegs trying to fit into round holes. They are not the majority; so the world is not designed for them. It could be prejudice or the need for accomodations or some aspect of the disorder itself; but being ill-suited for the world you live in can be a difficult thing. Even your talents may not be the sort of thing the world is looking for.\n\nRegarding people with low IQs and severe disorders with no positive aspects. Individual personalities may indeed make them feel superior to others, just as neurologically average people may feel superior to people in general, whether their IQs are higher or lower than their own; but that seems to be a personality trait unconnected to any disorder.\n\nFrom what I can tell, all but the most profoundly affected are aware that they are different; but in a loving family, with good support and the accomodations they need to live in the world, they need not feel inferior or unwanted. These folks have the same goal that any of us have--the pursuit of happiness, in whatever form that takes for them; and why should a happy life ever be called an inferior one?
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Collie's 'mental disorder' answer and 'learning disorder' are all actually 'mental disorders'. And some very highly intellectual people had a 'learning disorders' besides your husband, 3icys. \n\nTo name a FEW:\nAlbert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Gen. George Patton, John F. Kennedy, Leonardo da Vinci, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Alexander Graham Bell, Woodrow Wilson, and Beethoven.\n\nA learning disorder is just someone that learns at a different pace than most because they see it differently than we do. Or they have a problem learning to concentrate.\n\n I believe 'we actually have the learning disorder' because A LOT of people with 'so called' learning disorders, 'were and are' high I.Q.ed or literal Geniuses!\n\nMy 8 year old grandson was recommended by the school to be placed in 'special Ed.'. The school claimed he was retarded and had attention deficit. And incapable of learning. But after being tested by real professionals, we found he was dyslexic, (like Albert Einstein and other intelligent people with learning disorders.)\n\n (They proved their ability to learn and so did my grandson)\n\n After a little over one year of private tutoring, he is now passing (18 months later) 3rd grade in school, in a regular class (not sp. ed.), with honors. (He mastered 3 years in 18 months).\n\nIt's harder for him to grasp new concepts. He has to have more one on one, but once he does get the concept, he's unbeatable .
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are you retarded of something?
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you didnt learn anything in school, did you?
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If you are 34 years old and have trouble with basic math skills, but also have done well with the rest of your life, you probably have a learning disability called dyscalculia. You are not alone.  \n\nSee these websites:\n\nhttp://www.ldanatl.org/aboutld/parents/ld_basics/dyscalculia.asp\n\nhttp://www.dyscalculia.org/\n\nhttp://www.ncld.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=463\n\nhttp://www.dyscalculiaforum.com/news.php\n\n\nSome community colleges and state universities have basic math classes, and if you register with their Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) first, you can get tutoring, extra time on tests, etc.  In order to qualify for the extra help, you will need to be diagnosed with a learning disability... the OSD can refer you to a diagnostician for testing.\n\nYou can also go to your local public school system, and ask if they have a good sped teacher who works well with learning disabilities, who might be interested in giving private tutoring. You would be paying around $30 per hour/lesson for a private tutor like this.
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Mute?\n\nProlly blind because i can still do a lot of stuff (as well as communicate)
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Are you really that retarded?
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One is born with dyslexia. \n\nShe did not discover exactly what it was until a grownup, but she always had it. Here is what she says:\n\nWhen did you find out you were dyslexic? \n\nWhen I was a grown woman\n\n"When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it... you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. And so, I learned from a guy who was running a program who I met one day and he had written out on a board a sentence. And I said to him, "You know, I can't read that." And he said, "Why not"? And I said, "Because it doesn't make any sense to me." So he said, "Well, write down what you see under each. Whatever you see, write exactly what you see underneath." And so, he brought me to letters by coordinating what I saw to something called an A, or a B, or a C, or a D, and that was pretty cool."