It might be devastating for the parents to be told of the problem and provided with label, but parents often don't understand what it's like for the person with the disability. The kid just wants to know that their problem is not total inadequacy on their part. Having a name for it makes it something that the child can understand and work with. If the schools are using that label to refer to anything other than the disorder itself and are pigeon holing kids because of it, that supports what some of us have been saying about how badly kids with learning disabilities are served in the schools.