A child dismissed as "uneducable" by the system

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05 Jun 2017, 7:34 pm

I highly recommend reading this link if your child has ever been dismissed as "uneducable", as this Harvard father's child was; the father shows how strengths are mistaken for deficits, and how he learned to nourish and maximise his son's potential.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/17/04/h ... ted-autism



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06 Jun 2017, 1:16 am

B19 wrote:
I highly recommend reading this link if your child has ever been dismissed as "uneducable", as this Harvard father's child was; the father shows how strengths are mistaken for deficits, and how he learned to nourish and maximise his son's potential.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/17/04/h ... ted-autism


Thanks B19

This is timely as clinical psychologists are now moving toward not scoring IQ for kids on the spectrum as nueroplasticity is so varied



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06 Jun 2017, 10:42 pm

I've made my comments before. I know the Dad had the best intentions. But he had no clue how to raise his son. I found the movie... ugh... upsetting. Especially when the Mom and the Dad were sitting on the couch, talking. See, the son was drawing pictures. Duh!?

I just hope that one day, people will wake up and realize how silly that was. You've ruined your son's development, and you don't even know it. Time cannot be turned back, now, can it? Be that a lesson for other parents: use your hands, not your mouth.


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16 Jul 2017, 9:57 am

It's good you mention neuroplasticity, Cyberdad... I'm a big believer in that too. We are dynamic, as living things we change.

And nobody's development is ruined, eikonabridge... damages are done, but no damage is permanent. You have to believe in the child too, and so does the system and so does the family.