Judy Moelingen is a professional Life - Coach bright people who are struggling with learning disabilities (LD), ADHD, autism, bipo...
How often are two famous people with the disorders of learning (SDL) in the same movie? Well, probably more often than you think. How many people with AD are creative and unconventional, it is common to be movie stars, business people or athletes. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, for example, that in the two appeared Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's chest, both have learning difficulties.
But the road to success is rarely easy and LD adds another dimension that can be a struggle. Keira Knightley describes his journey through this school: "I was called stupid at school for many many beautiful children and makes you determined to learn ways to read and write and to find, I so I have."
Orlando Bloom used his own experience for children with dyslexia to advocate. "If you have children who are struggling with dyslexia, is the best gift you can give them, the feeling is that nothing is impossible with dyslexia a great gift that the way is can think your mind so, creative. "
Director Steven talked game, when he was diagnosed with an LD 60: "When called to the front of the class had had to read in a long series of days on a different day of the worst days of my life." Spielberg is the hearing say that he had a DL, "the last piece of the puzzle in a big secret that I saved for me all these years." was
For over 20 years I have to or working with people with AD, and I heard what you want to know others. The first is, they do not want their pity. Instead, they want to take the time to learn the DA and knowledgeable. These are some of the things they would know the world like:
1. "In fact, I'm very intelligent"
People with disabilities often an intelligence at least average and above-average learning. In fact, many people have a dual diagnosis is both talented and LD. Susan Hamilton, a specialist in learning disabilities, said. "It's a lonely existence to be a child with a disability who see or understand you exasperate your teachers to disappoint their parents, no one, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid." To look stupid if it wise to know is the number one frustration is that speak of and Gentlemen. You can leave you feeling angry and demoralized a person.
2. "Do not call me lazy or unmotivated"
People with LD does not operate linearly. His journey between "here and there" may be full of curves. Traditional teaching methods or even the normal expectations of life, can not work for them. Your neurocircuito can "lock", giving the appearance that they simply do not want to work, if they are frozen, in fact, in overload.
3. "My brain is wired differently simply"
The AP is a neurological disorder and will be based on the brain. There are many studies on the subject of the DA, but, in short, the wiring in the brain is different, not bad. The most important part here is that the DA are physically real as diabetes or high blood pressure, that individuals can not simply "be" themselves "Get over it" may be more than you want to repair broken leg. Many people have this kind of different compound used to succeed. Paul Orfalea, who founded in 1970 Kinko copy shop, calls his learning problems of a "learning opportunity". In your case, your learning style, to see the big picture, helped and not worry about the little details.
4. "Do not group my LD with other"
There are five major types of LDS. Dyslexia is a disability on the basis of the language in which a person has trouble reading and understanding written words. Dyscalculia is a mathematical disability in which a person has difficulty solving arithmetic problems and detect mathematical concepts. Dysgraphia is a disability that the coordination and fine motor skills affects the letter in which a person has difficulty forming letters or write within a defined space. Disorders and auditory processing is diagnosed when a person difficult to understand language despite normal hearing and vision and nonverbal learning disability has caused problems with the functions of visual space and intuitive handling, organization, evaluation and holistic. When an LD is not properly defined, it is not able to sit properly. Give someone with dysgraphia more time to finish a math problem you will not help "doing things". a different approach is needed. Daniel Radcliffe, the Dyspraxia has, struggling to tie his shoes, he said with a smile that his biggest regret is that "Velcro sneakers never took off in the world of fashion."
5. "Let - I do differently"
"If a child does not learn the way we teach, then maybe we should teach them the way to learn," said Ignacio Estrada educators. Thought to bring about it and try to imagine the answer to know something in your head and not be able to paper. Now you have to answer the same fast quickie imagine if you received an oral exam instead. This is a daily frustration for people with AD. his knowledge does not exist in conventional forms, for example, a written exam. ultimately knowledge is not tested, but its ability to operate in line with the traditional parameters.
6. "It is not only between 08: 30-04: 00"
The idea that the DA begins when a person enters the classroom or office is false. With the money, to read the signs, filling out forms and maintain an orderly environment is all done outside of work or school. LD can affect the input and output speed of processing information from a person, organization, memory and social skills. For some people "out of sight" is really "out of mind." If this means that the clothes should be visible for them to find his shirt and pants, they need open shelves for your room, not a dresser or closet where you're hiding your clothes.
7. "I'm not going to get through this"
LD is not only a matter of childhood. You do not get tired of them. As defined by the Canadian Association of Learning Disabilities, "the way the DA are expressed vary during the life of an individual, depending on the interaction between environmental requirements and individual strengths and needs." But they do not disappear.
8. "It is what I need, not what I am"
a learning disability does not mean that a person is learning disabled. It is part of what they are and with appropriate support measures and adjustments, people with AD are quite learn to be able to read in the same way that a person who is blind, Braille can. Tim Tebow, the former NFL quarterback who has dyslexia, said: "It has to get to the search, to do." In his case he made flashcards of different games as a way to keep fighting to try to read the entire textbook.
9. "Your good intentions can choke me"
People with LD are often treated with a mixture of pity and irritation, when all you really need is the time to find something better. That someone, the help is not always work; in fact, it can be embarrassing and annoying. Similarly, one can imagine to be very intelligent and are still used in a humiliating way?
Your chances of meeting someone with LD are very good, so to inform them and to change their mind when necessary. Do not assume that learning problems are always a bad thing. For many people, LD gives them a distinct advantage. In the words of actress Salma Hayek: "It may take a very long time to read a script, but I once read."
