Re: children and caring for them/disabilities-long
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:48:01 -0700 (MST)


On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 06:19  AM, Elizabeth Stevenson wrote:

 All I can say is that I
was unable to articulate what was happening to my son.

This is typical of parents of children with learning disabilities. This is particularly difficult if it is the first child.

A friend said the minute her second baby was put in her arms she knew he did not have the perceptual and processing problems her first son had. After years of being treated as a bad mother and believing she had in someway irreparably damaged her first son by failing to relate to him, they were able to get the right help -- a series of different cognitive approaches to develop various brain functions. Her child could not visually connect, much less read, and was thus afraid to be more than a few feet away from his mother. Unlike being blind, he was reacting to confusing visual signals. He is now in one of the best high schools in Manhattan and free of detectible disabilities, cognitive or emotional.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org

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