Hi Folks,
I thought you might want to know about this upcoming seminar:
At the California LDA Conference in October, Ms. Patricia Lemer is presenting this seminar:
Her presentation is entitled: “NLD: = Not Learning Disabled? Vision and
Movement are the Keys to Unlocking this False Diagnosis!”.
The abstract says the following: “Non-verbal learning disabilities (NLD) describes a cluster of deficits in motor, visual-spatial, social and sensory
areas in the presence of verbal strengths. If viewed as a developmental delay in motor, sensory-motor and visual processing, then help is on the way. Learn how to remediate, rather than just compensate for this phony diagnosis.
Not only is she presenting this seminar, she is also a keynote speaker. Even if you don’t have NLD, I would think that anybody with LD would be outraged that an organization like LDA is calling NLD a phony diagnosis.
I highly urge you and your site visitors to contact the folks listed on the website of
http://www.nldline.com to let them know that this is totally unacceptable and disgraceful that this woman is being allowed to speak. It is bad enough
that we deal with a skeptical public and now it seems we don’t even havsupport from LDA.
For those folks who want to get a sense of Ms. Lemer’s agenda and
viewpoints, here is her website:
http://www.devdelay.org
After folks visit it, my guess is that most folks will realize that this was not taken out of context and that Ms. Leman’s agenda is quite clear.
PT