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Learning Disabilities Maggie Louis

Hello, I’m Maggie, October 1, 2010, Fairview, PA. The topic that I am going to talk about today is Learning Disabilities and what it is like to live with one every day. Do you know anyone with a learning Disability? Or do you yourself have a learning disability? Some people don’t know what it’s like to struggle with a learning disability every day. A learning disability, defined, is when there a child that has difficulty learning the basic skills like math, reading, writing, and language development in schools. Some people think that living with a learning disability is just having a normal life like everyone else, but having a learning disability is so much harder to live with every day. Children with a learning disability have difficulty things in school. The things that they do learn take them a while longer to understand. For these kids that have learning disabilities there are learning support programs in school. There are many types of learning disabilities that people don’t know about. There are math, reading, writing, and language as different learning disabilities. There are also risks that contribute to a learning disability. There may be family history, a long-term illness, parental substance abuse, poverty, and exposure to toxins such as lead. There are kids right here in the US with some sort of learning disability. Every 1 in 5 Americans, about 3 million people (ages 5-21) have a learning disability. This next part is hard for me to write about because I am one of those kids that struggle with a learning every day of my life. Its hard for me to talk about because I feel like if I tell people that I have a learning disability, they will think that I can’t learn and that I can’t do certain things that those without a learning disability can do. My learning disability is something that I have had since I was born. I don’t know exactly when we knew that I learning disability. My mom and dad have worked so hard with me to help me deal with my learning disability. I think though that my mom is the one that has helped me the most. My dad to has also helped a great deal with it, too. Both of my parents can tell that when I struggle with my learning disability every day. They can tell because when it gets hard I break down in tears. They know that it’s very hard for me. Where I am having my learning disability is in math. I have had this disability for as long as I can remember. My thing with math is that I learn math slower, and it takes me a while longer to understand everything. Many different things are going through my head, and I feel like I am somewhere else. The things that I am thinking are very random, like what’s for dinner, what other homework will I have, and what I’m doing tonight. When I started high school, my mom told me that I had A.D.D too. What is A.D.D? A.D.D is attention deficit disorder. When my mom told me that I had A.D.D, I was scared because I at the time I had no idea what it was. With my A.D.D it’s hard for me to focus on what is going on in class. I just go off to “La La Land” and I go out into space. Now that I am older, I am getting to know about my learning disability. I have so many WONDERFUL people that war helping me and for that I am grateful. There are two people that I am very grateful for, and they are my mom and dad! I love them s much, and I really don’t know what I would do if they weren’t helping me the way that they are. I am also grateful to have such a WONDERFUL learning support teacher in high school! Without her, I have no idea how I would make it through my school years. Now that I have had my learning disability for my whole life, I am learning to deal with it and just let how I learn and what I learn go the way that it wants to. I am not going to try and change it. I realized also that that this is something that I am going to have for the rest of my life. I just have to deal with it. I hope that my telling my story helps you better understand and learn somewhat about learning disabilities. I think that writing about this topic for me was interesting and sad for me. It was interesting because I didn’t think that there were so many kids that are just like me and who are going through the same thing. It was sad for me because telling my story and seeing it written down like it is, and reading my story, made me realize that my learning disability is bigger in my life now than it ever has been. Thanks for listening to my podcast! Check out the wiki for more postings.

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 * "Learning Disabilities in Children: Symptoms, Types, and Testing." //Helpguide.org: Understand, Prevent and Resolve Life's Challenges//. Gina Kemp, M.A., Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., and Deborah Cutter, Psy.D, n.d. Web. 9 May 2010.


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