Probably, people are all very different and some do better at one thing than another. Once again, if we concentrate strictly on performance on intellectual testing we find that some people are going to fall below average. Fifty percent of people are going to fall below average and some of those people are going to be defined as disabled. Once again, we need to recognize what it is that makes those people special, and how they'll succeed. The child with hyperactivity and attention deficit will run a restaurant far better than a person who sticks his head in a book and gets straight A's and becomes a Harvard professor.
School is a very challenging setting.
An enormous amount of work is going on in these areas, and there is a lot that could be done. As I mentioned, we don't have any ways in which IQ can be made to improve, in and of itself. But if a child is hyperactive and has a low IQ on testing, we can improve their function. Recognizing these things is difficult and requires a community of experts. And one of the things we don't have in this country very much is a community of experts that deal with children in a particular town, so that we don't have a multi-disciplinary approach to trying to solve these problems.