My experience teaching my son long division.
http://www.eikonabridge.com/long_division.pdf
What can I say? I still remember my mother spending more than 10 years trying to teach me how to pronounce the [g] sound in my native language, to no avail. After I started to learn Spanish, I learned to pronounce the [g] sound perfectly on the first day. One day, vs. 10+ years. What made the difference? The difference was that when I was learning Spanish, the first thing I learned was its alphabet. I got to see the letter "g." That was all. I just needed to see the sound represented with a symbol. I did later get a PhD degree in theoretical physics from a top university, so I don't think I had intellectual disability, ha ha.
The same thing is true with autistic children. It's never about "learning disability." It is always about "teaching disability," from the adults. Adults don't know how to teach. They treat autistic children like neurotypical children. And when their children are not learning, they lay the blame on the children. They would say, their children have learning disability. Yeah right. If I had learning disability, how come I was able to get to where I am? I do speak 5.5 languages today.
It's sad that in schools we still send most of our brightest minds to special-needs classrooms, where they vegetate. Scary.
01 Feb 2020, 11:37 am
