do you think people with learning disabilities are different?

Answer 1

Everyone is different, and equal. What someone lacks in one area, they have above average strengths in another that make up for it.

Answer 2

I have a son with a learning disability, they are unique in how they learn. People with disabilities should not be treated differently than anyone else. They just take more time to learn things and sometimes they need to be taught things in a different way, with my son, there are things he will never learn. I try to help him live a full life regardless of his disability.

Answer 3

I think that they learn differently. My son has a visual learning disability. He measures above average in intelligence, even with the inability to do math. He struggles with reading, too. Still, he meaures quite high on intelligence tests.

His listening ability when he was in second grade tested at a 12th grade level. It seems he compensates for his disability by listening and remembering. It does not help him much with math, though.

He is 16 now. When he has a teacher that lectures out loud, he makes great grades. The one's who don't go over the material orally make it nearly impossible for him to pass.

I do think that the other "normal" students tend to look down on him because he is in special education. We are an upper class family, so he wears the best of clothing and drives a new car. Still, many of the kids in the so called "popular" groups tend to keep their distance from him.

I don't think that the learning disabled stigma will follow him after he graduates. When he gets in a job that is right for him, no one will ever know the difficult social struggles that he has gone through with kids at school who just don't understand.

Answer 4

Of Course! But some are much more obvious than others. Some people cannot read, which might not be noticeable until they read, some people stutter, which is noticeable every time they talk.
Some people do not have normal disabilities, but have social ones which can effect them in social conversatiion, at jobs etc.
The list keeps getting bigger.
They all are considered different because they are different than the norm, whatever that may be, considered by society.

Answer 5

Of course they're different. We're all different. Aren't you glad we aren't all robots and just like everyone else?

In my opinion, everyone has some kind of learning disability.

Answer 6

I guess it all depends. People with disabilities have feelings like we do. They might handle their problems a little different.

Answer 7

I dont get your question. Different from what? As a mother of two children, both with disabilities, yes they are different because one is blonde, one is dark, one is male, one is female, shall I go on???

Answer 8

Different yes but in a positive way. I've worked with some and they seem to have a lot of talent in a particular field that normal people don't.

Answer 9

Their disabilities may limit them in certain respects, but they are human beings, like everyone else on this planet.

Answer 10

Everyone is different!!!
People with learning disabilites have a special place in my heart.