Labels can restrain a child
from learning. Just because your kid does not know how to socialize with other
children, the world outcasts your kid as the ‘weird one’. Before you know it,
everything you find enthralling about your kid is actually ‘a problem’ and
everything you are doing as a parent is ‘wrong’. It may feel like there are lot
of things that your child can’t do and then there is a long list of all
hardships that your kid would face in a lifetime.
Kevin loves music and can’t
live without his iPad. He wonders why everything is not touch! He loves to
laugh & hug. He is in the 5th grade and has an uncanny ability to remember
dates. His way of learning things is quite different. He reads and writes while
listening to his favorite Schiller’s Ode
to Joy. He is different not because he has a learning disability but
because he has a different way of learning. And he, is my son.
A learning disabilities private
school can greatly enhance your child's life. Raising a kid with a learning
disability taught me this important lesson. A school, where educators have this
label for children to say ‘I can’ and where the classroom experience includes
stories of children who have overcome adversity. This kind of nurturing school
environment encourages children to turn obstacles into opportunities. Aaron School, a renowned learning disabilities private school in New York, believes
in the potential of every child and helps them maximize their potential in
order for them to become confident and successful citizens of the community.
I was intrigued by the
educators at Aaron, when I first visited the school 3 years ago. I went there
to gauge the learning environment of the school before my son Kevin started his
program. As special education teachers, their focus is to discover the way a
child learns best and furthermore, to design activities to teach them how to
learn, build self-confidence and to let the children know they are not any less
just because they learn differently. Educators work with parents so that they
can understand their child’s learning disabilities and how they can support
them at home.
To break the myth about
learning disabilities, it is important to promote the fact that having a
learning disability does not at all means that a child or any individual cannot
learn, it means that they learn differently. Kevin struggles with reading
comprehension but that doesn’t mean that he is not good at other things. He
loves creating music and is a fabulous artist, the best our family has ever
had.
Many learning disabilities
private schools tend to focus on what the child is struggling with and forget
to foster the real talent of that child. Helping children develop their
strengths can help students develop self-esteem and excel in school and in
life.
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