Re: Learning Disability

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Okay--I'll stop arguing and concede. I'll agree that the OP does
not have a learning disability. She's just sloppy and stupid--
traits that you all undoubtedly want to find in the nurse that is
administering your medications.

On 7/15/08, Susan wrote:
> 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?)