Affiliation:
1. Robert Ziegler, MD, is involved with children with learning disorders, developmental deviations, and neurological and psychiatric disorders in a wriery of settings. He is the director of child evaluation services at a community mental health center and the program director of the Family Senice Team of the Seizure Unit at Children's Hospital Medical Center. Boston. He consults to school systems in programs for preschool children as well as at elementary and high school levels. Requests for reprints should...
Abstract
While conceptualizations of learning disabilities vary between brain deficit and brain difference, teachers, counselors, and clinicians should consider the degree and nature of the match that exists between the child's abilities and both the classroom methods and material. As the degree of mismatch increases between the child's abilities and the material that the child is expected to master, the child must adapt to this difficulty. Three stages of children's psychological adaptation to this distress are postulated: (1) an initial reaction of quiet withdrawal or active response, (2) disengagement, and (3) defensiveness. These adaptations and their implications for the classroom and clinician are discussed, and case illustrations are presented.
Subject
General Health Professions,Education,Health(social science)
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