Mr. President

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Another for Somer:

I had this kid that had a very difficult time processing visual information involving letters. So I would read the problem to him. He would draw a picture of the situation, and ask is this basically what the questions is asking. I said exactly, and he would go on to solve the problem in an entirely novel way. By using this complex set of proportions instead of what I though was the easy physics way. The kid taught me a brand new way of looking at problems. It did not work for all of them, but it was a very clever way of looking at certain types of problems that I have never seen before in textbooks.

Exactly! The sad thing is that these kids get labeled for life as MR and doors slam shut...if you have a physical illness, the label goes away with the symptomology but anytime you get a Psych dx, it stays for life! Same with MR....we waste so much talent that way.