David, Neena
(2014)
Specific learning disabilities -
mainstream classroom
contexts.
Learning Curve (23).
pp. 66-69.
Abstract
Kabir’s parents look tired, knowing that this seventh
grade parent-teacher meeting would be identical to
all the teacher interactions they have had in the
past. Teachers would repeat their concerns about his
poor reading skills, sloppy handwriting, incomplete
classwork, numerous spelling errors and his
reluctance to engage with academic tasks. Kabir’s
report cards consistently had the standard teacher
comments- needs to improve, can do better if he
works harder. His parents know him to be an
averagely bright child, an observation often
corroborated by his teachers in school and his tuition
teacher, but his academic skills and performance
seemed to indicate otherwise. Why, they wondered,
was he being so lazy, unmotivated and difficult? The
school recommends that Kabir visit a psychologist to
receive a formal learning assessment, the parents
initially resist the idea insisting that their son is ‘not
mad’ but agree to it eventually.
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