Hello, I am an education student interested in learning about how a child with a learning disability affects the family. If you have any information that you would like to share about how this experience has affected your family please respond here or you may email me at: [email protected]
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I have 5 children, only one with learning problems. She is now 9 and it feels like so much of my time and effort is spent dealing with her problems, that the other “normal” kids get left behind. All of the other 4 have at times, said something about the “special” treatment, their sister gets. Some of it has to do with the fact that she is ADD and has trouble remembering the rules. Then her siblings say that she’s a “brat”. She is the fourth child of the five and the youngest has occasionally lashed out at the extra help and attention that her sister gets with homework and extra therapies. The problems that my daughter has started on the day she was born. And it has definitely affected our family and not for the better.
Our family life has been largely circumscribed by our children’s learning differences. Our one son had signficant language/speech issues causing our extended family and all casual acquaitances to have difficult interactions with him. Our other son is dyslexic and severely dysgraphic making school often a nightmare. As parents, we’ve directed tremendous energies toward helping both our sons contend with their issues, as well as directing much time and money toward finding remediative therapies and procuring support for them.
I can’t imagine how different their lives and our lives would have been if my children had not been vested with significant learning differences.