Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g15HwRu04277; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:58:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:58:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020205125256.00a56610@mail> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: clifwillard <clifwillard@home.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3896] RE: adhd X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1158 Lines: 28 Marie, I could not agree more. I suggest to my patients that they do not say they have a reading disorder or ADHD. If they do, the faculty only see a misguided stereotype and not the person. I suggest that they say, " I have trouble staying focused, or sitting still for a long time, or I read slowly." State the symptoms, not the label. Everyone can identify with the symptoms and there is no stereotypic label. It usually works very well. Clif At 09:58 AM 2/5/02 -0500, you wrote: >Let me talk about one part of the issue here. > >it seems to me that the social context the individual lives in, and is part >of, causes much of the difficulty. If you go around announcing "I have >adhd," you will raise a lot of confusion, maybe some social isolation, >denial, pulling away, whatever. The inidividual's knowledge of a VALID label >MAY BE useful for the individual in how to strategize, how to predict future >difficulties, how to maximize potential, BUT knowledge of a disability by the >general public may be a SOCIAL DISASTER. > >The DAR has a phonetic awareness component, it is a reading test, it does not >diagnose, it describes. > >Andrea
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