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Thread #123935   Message #2737952
Posted By: CarolC
04-Oct-09 - 10:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Home Education UK
Subject: RE: BS: Home Education UK
I'm not the one who first suggested that Einstein was gifted/LD, and the reasons I gave did not first come from me. The only reason I'm even familiar at all with those ideas is because I got them from the people who are experts on people who are gifted/LD.

When I say that learning disabilities are not just behavioral, I'm talking about what they are and how they are experienced. Observed behaviors are a part of the evaluation process (along with other things), and behaviors are the criteria that define them for the purpose of the professionals who work with people who have learning disabilities (and giftedness), but those criteria do not help anyone understand how they are experienced by those who have them. Which was the point I was making previously.

I have come to the conclusion that the person who is so threatened by the idea that Einstein could be gifted/LD really has no background whatever in any aspect of education, or in learning disabilities and giftedness. The things I have been saying, I got from the professionals and experts whose help I sought out when I was advocating for my son in the schools. Anyone for whom these things are totally unknown and unheard of can't possibly have any background whatever in these areas.