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~ Local g rou p setsout
-to aid children with
_ learning disabilities

- Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 25, 1988 21

_: What did Thomas Edison,
Winston Churchill and Albert
Einstein have in common? Each

of these brilliant personalities

had a specific learning disability.
Learning disabilities are so com-
mon that about one in 10 Cana-
dians have a specific learning

disability. If the problem re-

mains undetected or a method of
coping isn’t found, a learning
disability can be devastating to
the life of its victim.

-by Tod Strachan
These and many more impor-

. tant facts were learned by more

than 40 local residents who at-
tended a meeting at Thornhill

Junior Secondary School last:

week to promote a local branch
of the Learning Disability
Association of B.C. being
organized by local residents
Deborah and Tom Dimitrov.

_ The message from the associa-

 tion’s executive director, Ed

Gordon of Vancouver, was one
of promoting awareness. He
said the incidence of learning
disabilities is high, about 10 per-
cent or about 2.5 million Cana-

 dians —.and there is no cure.

But, he said, people shouldn't
panic.

With the correct diagnosis and
proper support, the victim can
learn to compensate and live a
normal, healthy life. And
awareness is the key. Through

ok

awareness, a learning disability
may be recognized, and through
understanding, the fear of ad-
mission by the parent or child
can be overcome and help can be
found.

_ Parents and educators have to
be sensitive and learn how to in-
terpret ‘‘bad beharior’’, and

-search for its cause — it may be

the result of a learning disabili-
ty. According to the association,
it is estimated that 85 to 90 per-
cent of delinquent youngsters
have undetected learning
disabilities. .

The term ‘‘learning disabili-
ty” was coined in 1963 by a
group of psychologists in
Chicago under the leadership of
Dr. Samuel Kirk, It is described
as a dysfunction of the central
nervous system in an individual,
and it usually affects people of
average or higher than average
intelligence. But the presence of
a learning disability is in no way
related to intelligence and in no
way any indication of in-
telligence.

Learning disabilities change
the way an individual interprets
data, For instance, the concept
of left and right or up and down
may be reversed, or some letters
on the blackboard may be re-
versed and make no sense at all.

A child may understand and
be able to describe a complex set
of facts but if asked to read or

At a meeting last week In Thornhill organized by four area parents — Tom and Deborah
Dimitrov (left) of Terrace and Ros and Jim Peel of Kitimat — a group of 40 educators and
parents were given valuable Information on the detection and nature of learning disabilities

n children.

write on the same topic, falls vic-
tim to failure and embarrass-
ment.

Such difficulties generally

. show themselves by difficulties

in attention, memory, reason-
ing, coordination, communica-
tion, reading, writing, spelling,
calculation, social competence
or emotional maturity.

_ The primary clue that may in-
dicate the presence of a learning
disability is the child’s ability to
cope. The youngster may be the
class clown or learn how to

avoid participating in specific

activities — but may not learn
how to cope with the damands
-of society to function in a ‘‘nor-
mal’? manner, and may display

an anti-social exterior.

Some signs that may. be in-
dicators are hyperactivity which
causes: constant movement;
short attention span and im-
pulsive acts; poor handwriting
or coordination; swift mood
changes and displays of frustra-
tions; mixing up letter sequences
in words like ‘‘pasghetti’’,
‘“*hotspitals’’ or ‘‘aminals’’; dif-
ficulty in distinguishing fine dif-
ferences in shapes or sounds;
and difficulty in planning ac-
tivities or understanding conse-
quences,

The Association warns,
however, ‘‘Many children ex-
perience one or more of the
above symptoms in the normal

__ CLASSIFIED.

course of their development.
Only when a number of these
symptoms are present might
there be an indication of a learn-
ing disability. Only a profes-
sional evaluation can determine
the presence of a learning
disability.”

Gordon says that changes in
society’s understanding of the

‘problem are taking place — but

very slowly. One indicator of
progress, however, is the fact
that students with a learning
disability can now take govern-
mente exams orally. He says

' that this has resulted in some ex-

cellent scores from students who
were previously thought to be

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