BerberElla
12 and a half weeks
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Isn't it almost more of a put down to say someone doesn't *have* a disability rather than just acknowledging it and working from there?
I don't know. The negative connotations associated with the word "disability", when it's only a disability based on perhaps old and outdated teaching methods, seems wrong to label it as such.
I'm not up to speed on all the current stuff, not like I was when I was trying to get my son settled somewhere that could deal with the way he needed to be taught, but I did read a few articles once that seemed to lean in favour of re-evaluating the current uk method of teaching children because of the increasing amount of children gaining one or another label because the system being used labels all things away from it as "disabilities".
EDIT: I should add, when my son found out he had a "disability" he then used it as a way to try to excuse everything, so it's not the best of ideas to just tell them. "I'm not going to read that, it's not my fault, I have a disability"......if I had a pound for everytime he has tried to use that lol