Hello, My name is Michael Cohen. I am 19, I am a student at Sarah Lawrence College and I have had and certainly still struggle with my own learning disabilities. I have had my own bunch of terrible experiences regarding being a LD student in an unaccomodating school. But, currently I’ve been given the opportunity to do some research of my own design at my school on Learning Disabilities. My research was inspired by a film I saw called F.A.T. City. Has anyone else seen it? I was wondering if anyone could lend me, either out of personal experience or otherwise, examples of how intelligence is hindered by a learning disability, but is not lost. In other words, just because a student with a learning disability appears to have a lower intelligence (however that may be measured) they may not in reality. I hope to show that it is the learning disability which mearly disrupts the processing or expressing of ideas, but that an LD student’s ideas are no less intelligent. I hope this is possible, if you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]
Thank you all so much
Re: Learning about LD
Just a personal suggestion here. Yes, people are reading your posts. This is a very active site and most topics get responses. Why aren’t you getting any? Well, first of all you started off by breaking the rules by multiple posting on all the boards, and when you repeated it people noted you as a trouble-maker. Then, you don’t seem to be exactly asking a question; people tend to respond more readily to something direct. And one thing that raises a red flag with many of us, as teachers ourselves, is asking us to do your homework and research and writing your papers for you. So here’s my suggestion: reformulate your question as something that people can answer from personal experience either as parents or as teachers. Then repost in one or two suitable forums, asking people for their own histories and ideas; and then you put it all together.
Anyone? I’ve been reading alot of really interesting books, perhaps I could post my final research paper and see what people think?