This page aims to illustrate the diversity in backgrounds and opinions that is so vital in sustaining a real dialogue on the evolving role of technology in education. I am the only non-teacher in my family. I have brought the joys of music to the children in our public school for 8 years, as a volunteer teacher. I advocate for the rights of hard of hearing children, rights of the parents of children with special needs to get support, understanding, information and hope for their children, need for early diagnostics for disabilities, as close to birth as possible so as to start helping in a natural development curve, instead of loosing four or five or ten years of not hearing, nor not being able to do everything as easily as the other kids.
Many teachers blame the parents and the child for having a learning disability.
Teachers seem to believe middle class parents choose to have their children identified as learning disabled so they will benefit from individualized instruction. Middle class parents are the evidence of the sucess of the universal education system. If we were the previous undefined, undiagnosed generation of learning disabilities, we remember the pain of school, and we wish to avoid that pain for our children. Often when a child today is diagnosed with a learning disability, either Mom or Dad had one too. When I found out that my son, Reid, had a hearing problem in 1984, he was five weeks old.