The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127023   Message #2828372
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
02-Feb-10 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: A Change of View
Subject: A Change of View
Wouldn't it be wonderful if 'Learning Difficulties' became 'Learning Differences'.

Then, it would actually mean something true.

Learing 'difficulties' implies that people are 'a bit thick really' as 'they' cannot think like 'us', but with a bit of help, they'll eventually 'pick it up'   'Us', of ccurse, being those folks who so often are convinced that everyone thinks only in one way.

Learning 'differences' however, implies that we, as a species, have finally started to understand that we all think in different ways, learn in different ways, hear, see, speak and communicate in different ways...