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djasbridge
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 06:12 pm |
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There are two kinds of persons/students with disabilities:
1) Those with real disabilities.
There are many students with real disabilities, for example, students who might be deaf or blind. If you lined up 100 physicians, all 100 would agree on the fact that the student is deaf or blind. The same could be said for a student who has paraplegia or quadraplegia. The same could be said for a student with severe mental retardation. Even autism, when quite evident before AGE 3 (as per diagnostic criteria), is a real disability. And there are of course, many other real disabilities. A student with a Traumatic Brain Injury... a student with cancer...
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2) Those who choose to be disabled and/or are misidentified as having a disability.
There are many more students who, due to learned helplessness (Seligman) or a variety of other reasons (IEP teams just trying to help, teachers trying to get a kid out of class due to challenging behavior or low test scores, parents fighting the system, advocates striving toward money, power, and agendas, legal definitions, ADHD/autism fads, big money, big business, other social-political factors, and more)... end up in a dead-end special education class with [an incorrect] label that will not help and will unfortunately last a lifetime.
RWOL always wants appropriate services for all students and no disrespect toward any student (whether s/he has a real disability or a misdiagnosed disability] is ever intended in any of my posts. I will continue to speak out against issues on this board and forward ideas... I'm never speaking negatively toward any human being.
Thomas Szasz, author of "The Myth of Mental Illness" and "The Manufacture of Madness"), a hero and leader in this movement, expresses thess views much better than I. Watch his brief video on YouTube at the following URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj7GmeSAxXo
RWOL, as I envision it, is not just an "anti-psychiatry" movement, it is an educational and human rights movement [and revolution]...
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