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Article: Coping with a learning disability.
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- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- February 1, 1994
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Does your child have a learning disability? If he does, he's in good company. Albert Einstein flunked high school math. Thomas Edison's teachers thought he was retarded. School work was very difficult for Steven Spielberg.
What is a learning disability? It does not mean stupidity. "What it really means," according to Lawrence Clayton and Jaydene Morrison, "is that you are smart. It means that your brain is not making maximum use of what is inside it." Authors Clayton and Morrison, in Coping With A Learning Disability (Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1992, $13.95) compare overcoming one or more learning disabilities to "re-wiring your brain" so you can ...