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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 183022" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I have a friend whose son started school in Special Education classes. She was told, at various times, that he was MR, emotionally disturbed and, finally, Learning Disability (LD). He spent his entire elementary and middle school years in self contained classes, theoretically being taught to read. He couldn't read.</p><p></p><p>One day I asked her what his learning disability was and were they teaching him with methods that accomodated his disability. Her response was "Huh?" Apparently our school district was warehousing Learning Disability (LD) kids rather than trying to teach around the disability. But since I brought it up, she began to wonder exactly what was wrong especially since it seems her husband had the same disability. Maybe it wasn't that they were Lazy and Dumb after all. Or as one Special Education teacher told her, not trying hard enough.</p><p></p><p>So we started our quest to get a correct diagnosis for this kid. Because it was easiest and I knew who to call, first thing she did was have his eyes checked for convergence. Frankly I was pretty sure that's what was wrong because he had read for me and it was clear he was reading the first letters of a word, then guessing at the rest of it. I was sure he couldn't keep his eyes focused on the word long enough to complete reading it. When my friend told me about the exam, she was amazed. She said it would have been obvious to anyone who asked the boy to simply track a finger across his line of vision that there was a convergence problem. She had taken him for eye exams, the schools did eye exams. No one ever picked up on it.</p><p></p><p>The boy started vision therapy the next week. He went for a year, IIRC. Once he could focus his eyes on the same point, he could read. He had learned <em>how</em> to read years ago. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that he was physically unable to read. The therapy corrected that. He was partially mainstreamed in 9th grade, fully mainstreamed in 11th grade.</p><p></p><p>PS to <strong>bugsy's mom</strong>: My friend's son had the same balance problems. He couldn't skip (which led to his being identified as MR in kindergarten, for some reason) or ride a bicycle. He never liked playing video or ball games. It was all vision related.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 183022, member: 1498"] I have a friend whose son started school in Special Education classes. She was told, at various times, that he was MR, emotionally disturbed and, finally, Learning Disability (LD). He spent his entire elementary and middle school years in self contained classes, theoretically being taught to read. He couldn't read. One day I asked her what his learning disability was and were they teaching him with methods that accomodated his disability. Her response was "Huh?" Apparently our school district was warehousing Learning Disability (LD) kids rather than trying to teach around the disability. But since I brought it up, she began to wonder exactly what was wrong especially since it seems her husband had the same disability. Maybe it wasn't that they were Lazy and Dumb after all. Or as one Special Education teacher told her, not trying hard enough. So we started our quest to get a correct diagnosis for this kid. Because it was easiest and I knew who to call, first thing she did was have his eyes checked for convergence. Frankly I was pretty sure that's what was wrong because he had read for me and it was clear he was reading the first letters of a word, then guessing at the rest of it. I was sure he couldn't keep his eyes focused on the word long enough to complete reading it. When my friend told me about the exam, she was amazed. She said it would have been obvious to anyone who asked the boy to simply track a finger across his line of vision that there was a convergence problem. She had taken him for eye exams, the schools did eye exams. No one ever picked up on it. The boy started vision therapy the next week. He went for a year, IIRC. Once he could focus his eyes on the same point, he could read. He had learned [I]how[/I] to read years ago. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that he was physically unable to read. The therapy corrected that. He was partially mainstreamed in 9th grade, fully mainstreamed in 11th grade. PS to [B]bugsy's mom[/B]: My friend's son had the same balance problems. He couldn't skip (which led to his being identified as MR in kindergarten, for some reason) or ride a bicycle. He never liked playing video or ball games. It was all vision related. [/QUOTE]
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