DARC - Dyslexia Awareness and Resource Center. For Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyslexia. This is a comment I hear over and over again, usually from adults who were fortunate enough to be born with the gift of being able to learn how to read and write while attending grade school. Often the comment comes from adults who have high school diplomas and adults who are often gainfully employed in our public school or justice systems.
People judge people by their own standards.
The majority of the six thousand parents of learning disabled children I have assisted over the last seven years have learning disabilities themselves. Many of them have also failed in school because of their undiagnosed learning disabilities. At least eighty percent of children and adults diagnosed with learning disabilities have their most severe difficulties in learning how to read. Parents who have failed in school. Over the years I have attended many court hearings and school meetings with fathers who have undiagnosed learning disabilities who have never attended a school meeting out of fear of being found out .