Scenario:
Your eight-year-old child was recently evaluated for a learning disability. This is your first child and you had no anxiety about his development until his new third-grade teacher voiced her concern about his difficulty with reading. Soon the results of the evaluation come back, and you are informed that your child has a learning disability in reading. In addition, the school states that it would like to evaluate him further for attention deficit disorder.
1. What do you think your immediate reaction would be?
2. What sense of loss might you experience?
3. How do you think your current friends and family would respond when you told them the news?
4. How do you think your life might change?
5. Do you think your dreams for your child would change after learning of the disability? Explain.
6. What would you want teachers to do to help you and your child?