Often times, children with learning disorders have other troubles too. Repeated failure and criticism leads to depression, and anxiety. It is important to understand, however, that learning disabilities do not mean that the child is slow, lazy, bad, or crazy . A child who has missed out on key educational experiences, or who is crippled by poverty, or who has another kind of medical disease or disability may also have troubles in school, but does not have a learning disability. Children who learn slowly may also lag behind their peers, but are not considered learning disabled.
People are different.
Each of us is unique, and we all have our areas of strength and ability. Many, many famous, successful, and talented people have had learning disabilities. Like all disabilities, problems in learning don t mean that you are un able, only that your brain has certain roadblocks to learning in the usual way. The key is therefore to identify what each child s strengths are, as well as where they may need help. Usually, the best way to identify these strengths and weaknesses is to have the child take a battery of tests that look at the different ways we learn.