LD, ED, & MR

            

            It relatively arguable that many students may have been misdiagnosed with some form of Learning Disabilities at a young age, mostly children of color are predominately diagnosed with a “learning disability”. If you’re child have been properly accessed with a Learning Disability seeking help and aide to help improve your child quality of life is appropriate, but what if you’re child is perfectly fine and have now have been denoted with a learning disability? Challenge the system of the assessment claiming your child to have a learning disability, there are many factors that play a huge role in misplacing children of color with the label of having a Learning Disability and unfortunately the assessments may have nothing to do with their capability of comprehending and understanding information. One of the major factors of misdiagnosed of children with learning disabilities is a teacher, teachers are in a classroom to be educators, in my opinion are educators should find and implement different methods to properly educated their scholars. Apparently, teachers go beyond the scope of educators and become physicians and/or psychologist assessing/recommending a form of Learning Disabilities within the child is acting up or not able to keep up with the course. There are many reasons why a child may “act up” such as too much sugar, bored, improper approach of educating and much more; instead of figuring out a proper way to educate the child, the child is claim to have a Learning Disability. Secondly, children especially children of color come from an array of backgrounds, learns differently (visually, orally, individually, & so forth), and are flat out DIFFERENT from each other; it is evident that children are different types learners, but generally only one form of teaching method is conducted to educate such a diverse group children. The third factor of misdiagnosed of children in regards of Learning Disabilities is standardized testing assess students. Students in academia comes from different backgrounds, there are no consideration in the standardized testing for students, for example who may speak English as a second language may not understand or quickly comprehend certain topics are now considered to have a “Learning Disability”.Normalcy (“The Norm”) plays another role in the diagnostic process for Learning Disabilities; it considers only a one-dimensional view of what is accepted/considered “normal behaviors”. One question that I would like to ask, what is considered normal now a days? The issue with normalcy is simple, it is only a one-dimensional view anything that does not fit the standard of what is normal would be considered as abnormal ß this is wrong. Normalcy does not take into account students who are acculturated, quality of life, cultural background, and so forth; what may be considered to normal towards one discourse community may not be for another. Having a normalcy standard to measure students especially students will only help misguide and misdiagnose scholars.

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