Re: Learning Disability

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On 7/15/08, ASLMEMBER @YAHOO.COM wrote:
> On 7/15/08, Patricia wrote:
>> I am in the Marshall University School of Nursing in
>> Huntington, West Virginia. I am the second dark skin
> African
>> American in the history (since the inception) of the
>> nursing program.
>> One of the nursing teachers 'diagnosed' me with Learning
>> Disability at 53 and said I need to be tested.
>> 1. Nurses do not diagnose Learning Disability according
>> to the Nanda List of Nursing Diagnoses.
>> 2. She told the 2nd dark skin African American in the
>> history of the program.
>> 3. She is not a psychologist; she is a nurse
>> The state attorney general's office did nothing about it
>> (and he is aware I am the 2nd dark african american since
>> the school's inception).
>> I am never been so outraged in my life as receiving such
>> an phony diagnoses. Anyone else out there
>> been labeled as Learning Disability?
>
> Learning Disability is not about spelling nor about being
> generous. I5 is TRULY a problem area with individuals
> learning. You really need to look up the definition of
> learning disability. It is not a tool to be used as
> whipping or to downgrade. Only a doctor can determine
> (after much testing) what the problem is (if one truly
> exists).

Spelling can be corrected in an instance. A learning
disability takes a lifetime of trying to correct what is wrong.