I'm not the one who said that learning disabilities can't be corrected. That was I have been told (and what I have read from) all of the experts on learning disabilities I have encountered, including educators. And clearly the person in this thread who thinks they can and that theirs was, didn't have learning disabilities. At least the language one was not. The handwriting one probably is, since that one, according to their own account, hasn't gone away. They've just found ways of getting around it.

CLEFT PALATE IS NOT A LEARNING DISABILITY. It is a PHYSICAL disability. Thank god I knew better than to believe the teachers who thought and believed like the person who is saying that learning disabilities can be corrected. If those teachers had been allowed to prevail, my son would have been as totally fucked up by the time he reached adulthood as I was. But instead, he has a university degree and a very good job.

It's BECAUSE I taught him that although he couldn't get rid of his learning disabilities, he could learn how to compensate for them, and because I taught him to never listen to people who tried to make him feel like he wasn't doing his best, that he was able to compensate for the faulty brain wiring that was causing him so much trouble in the schools.