So many of the myths are really hard to overcome.
To its credit, the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County has launched a public information campaign seeking to improve employment opportunities and outcomes for individuals with Learning Disabilities. Addressing the important problem of un- an underemployment among adults with LD, SEAKINGWDC developed print and multimedia resources providing rationale, techniques, technical assistance, and legal resources about employment for this segment of the workforce.
That’s the proverbial good news. The bad news is that the materials perpetuate misinformation about LD. Here’s one example (emphasis as shown in original):
As someone listens or reads, the information being taken in, is often translated and is recognized or stored into memory incorrectly. For example
Saw is processed as saw, but written as was
16 plus 14 becomes 61 times 14
conversation switches to conservation
There’s plenty of evidence that the popular notion of reversals indicating LD is false. Still, a quick search (using Google) on “reversals ‘learning disabilities’” returned 9000 links; I’d have to bet that most of them perpetuate the myth.
How can we distribute the accurate information?
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