Lists of warning signs often oversimplify and misrepresent Learning Disabilities. A column by Jayne Matthews in the Baltimore Times has the laudable goal of helping parents to recognize LD early and get help (hooray!), but it reports some misinformation about LD. There is use of the non-scientific estimate of 20% prevalence, confounding of Learning Disability and “learning difference,” and (of course) the ubiquitous reference to reversals as a sign of LD. Because Ms. Matthews is reporting about a lecture given by an expert in LD, it is not clear to me whether the mistakes are her’s or the expert’s, but they are out in the wild now. They are likely to perpetuated.
Link to Ms. Matthews article.
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