Re: Learning Disability

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On 7/15/08, Meka wrote:
> 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.

Who has the right to call someone learning disability? Who has
the right to call (infer) that anyone is something? I think I
read somewhere in the notes that she is the only black student
that has dark skin. Without written permission no one has the
right to infer anything (maybe her medical records were invaded?)