[etni] Learning Disabilities 2

From: Yona <yona_kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:23:19 +0200

I want to add another comment to the previous message I sent about students
with learning disabilities. I have a student who seems to me to have serious
reading problems and I wanted to help her somehow. I asked her whether she has
any accomodations on tests and exams and this is the answer she sent me:
àéï ìé ä÷ìåú ëé æä îàåã é÷ø ììëú ìàáçåï.
àðé áèåçä ùàðé öøéëä ùä÷øàä. îàåã ÷ùä ìé ì÷øåà áàðâìéú.

ìòåîú æàú, àí î÷øéàéí ìé, àðé îáéðä îöåééï.

If the Hebrew didn't come out - this is a translation - "I don't have
accomodations because to get a diagnosis is very expensive. I am sure I need
to be read to. It is very difficult for me to read in English."

Even though I have gotten this answer before, this set off all kinds of alarm
bells in my head about what we are actually doing. Obviously, only more
well-to-do families can pay for these diagnoses. With 1/5 of Israel's children
living in poverty, what does this say? When I was studying to be a teacher,
one of the subjects we learned was how to improve the learning of
"underpriviledged" children. Today, no one talks about this. We are focusing
a lot of effort on learning disabilities and I think that we are disregarding
other classroom problems.

I ask myself how we got into this situation and I don't have an answer. I
repeat what I said in my last message - the classroom teacher's diagnoses must
count for something. That may be a start. We can't let this continue.

Thanks to everyone who answered me - Yona

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