Comments on: The Handicap That Had No Name

By: Dale Susan Brown

Dale Susan Brown — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:28:05 +0000

Thank you for sharing your positive experience with my work. I am thrilled that your sixteen your old is inspired. I was inspired by writers when I was her age, so it makes me happy to pass down the favor. Now, please tell her that I started these articles around her age by writing my thoughts and feelings and making a serious effort to communicate with the written word. We need young leaders like her to consider writing their experiences for publication- perhaps even on this very website…..

By: Wendy Slayden

Wendy Slayden — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:20:55 +0000

I found your story as I was researching a paper on helping adults with LD. I am working on a master’s degree in counseling- hoping to help and advocate for others who cope with these issues on a daily basis. I can readily identify with your experiences in and out of the classroom. At 50 I am also the mother of two bright teens who cannot find things, read maps, or memorize. Like you (and me, too), they are also artistic and great writers. Thank you for sharing your story. My 16 year-old daughter is inspired and thinking about college with much less anxiety.

By: Dale Susan Brown

Dale Susan Brown — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:22:31 +0000

Thank you for your compliment- specific and sincere, an great example of motivational feedback! Which is great since that is what you are working on with your student.

By: Leslie Lehmann

Leslie Lehmann — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:20:08 +0000

Thank you for this article. I have a student now with a very puzzling set of difficulties and trying to put the whole picture together to help him has been very frustrating. Reading your account gives me a new set of questions to ask him. Like you, he is very determined; and , like you, he is very intelligent. The crux is finding what it takes to make him successful and giving him the confidence and vocabulary to tell me what he needs. Also, thank you for helping to give me the vocabulary to praise him and let him know how much I appreciate his efforts. Sometimes, with all of the other children in the classroom and duties as a teacher, I can forget that he needs more positive feedback from me.

By: Dale Susan Brown

Dale Susan Brown — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:30:43 +0000

Comments such as yours make me so happy! That is why I not only wrote it, got it published, but got the information up on the website.

Thank you for sharing your response. Tell her teachers to praise her effort, make the correction, then continue to encourage her i.e. “You are working hard on your handwriting, keeping your eyes on the paper and holding the pen right. Make your “e” look like this. Not quite, try this…Thank you for persisting. Keep going.”

Again, thanks.

By: Misty

Misty — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:12:30 +0000

Thank You. In your personal story you really put in words what so many children are feeling. Even in this day and time that we are all so “open minded.” Even now with all we know about brain injuries and disabilities them selfs the stigma’s and teasing still continues with great force. I have a six year old wonderful daughter starting here very trieing time with education in our school system. You put in words all that I think she deals with and could not put into words. This school year in our IEP I will be shareing this story with her teachers. Hopefully they will have a better perspective of why it is so important to us that her self esteem recieves as much feed back as her education. They will notice all the effort she puts forth and not all she “lacks.” Thank you again.

By: Dale Susan Brown

Dale Susan Brown — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:42:49 +0000

Thank you so much for taking the time to write and tell me how you feel. Authors need this feedback, because it lets us know that we make a difference. So, thank you very much for being sweet and specific. And, please consider writing about your hearing impairment and giving the gift of your insight to others.

By: Madeline Lynch

Madeline Lynch — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 19:22:14 +0000

This is an exceptionally vivid account of living with a learning disability. Thank you for helping me understand some of my children’s ways. I identified with your experiences growing up as I have a hearing impairment, another invisible handicap. Thank you for writing this account of your life challenges.