This week on Great Shalom, we will spend time praying for our children. Come share. Let’s actually pray. Let’s actually be encouraged. Let’s actually see results in our kids.
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Tag Archives: learning disabilities
No need to suffer so much
I am so grieved when I see children suffering the problems of not learning. I am grieved when I see adults suffering mental decline — and just being resigned — when there is something they can do. Look, it is an input/output thing! Put garbage in and get garbage out. However, there is a way to correct the system. Your body is more intelligent than the GIGO computer system. Vitamins and supplements work better than medicine. Please Please please check out the list of supplements I have for improving mental capacity. Just go to “store” and scroll down and select “supplements.” I’ve made a list, but you can just click through to the vendors also. I’ve kept his up for years, although I have not made any profit. I just think it is so important. It’s gone so long, that the companies may boot me out, but as long as I can serve you, I would like to do that. Please, I am begging you, don’t resign yourself to mental deficiency — and shortened mission. No! get your medicine/food and be what God wants you to be! That is happy, healthy, holy, and prosperous — accomplishing your mission in the earth.
Don’t Delay Evaluation
Whether or not to have a child evaluated for special needs is a difficult decision for many parents. Fears about labeling are well founded. However, fears about missing developmental milestones are also well founded.
Someone weighs in here.
My thought is not whether one should have a child evaluated but how, by whom, with what aim? An evaluation that makes for a label without real help is detrimental. And evaluation that instead of affixing a label, offers guidance to parent and educators, ensuring the child gets what they need to come up to optimal level (far above norm) would of course be desirable. So, the question is not so much whether to get a child evaluated, but what system that evaluation is used in.
Public schools talk about accommodation, meaning making allowances for a child who is not able to cope with the existing system. Notice whether or not your people are talking about remediation. Are they aiming at fixing the problem? If so, how often are they successful? Do identified children, given remediation, come up to norm? Above? That is a reasonable question! Why enter a program that is unlikely to have a successful outcome. (BTW, the definition of a Learning Disability is a significant discrepancy between IQ and measured performance, so children who get an LD diagnosis have to, by implemented definition, be brighter than average.)
If a psychologist performs the evaluation, you can probably trust that the evaluation will be a scientifically valid one. The difficulty with private testing of this nature is the breakdown of communication between the private office and the educator. Therefore, be sure you understand the doctor’s report. Make sure it is explained to you in everyday English and you are clear on what measures the doctor recommends. Do not assume that the school will be able to decipher the findings or will know what measures to take based on a given report. Parents have to manage the situation.
Each case is different. Parents must weigh the need to know what is wrong and what kind of help is needed with the likelihood of being about to obtain those ends. Pick who does the evaluation, pick the educational help you get, and ensure your child gets the help he or she needs.
God Wants
Been thinking about that title, used for a series. I took it from my book title: God Wants You Healed. (BTW, although some other authors used it recently, I did think that up all on my own. No, I don’t think they stole it from me; it think that is just what God was saying.)
But God wants? Does God want? Well, we know this is the will of God, that we be saved, filled, delivered, healed, prospered. That is what I was saying. In all these places we could just say, “Yes, this IS God’s will for you….” It is important that people not accept some story that it is God’s will that their children are broken. No, it is God’s will for everyone to be whole and do wonderful. The problem is not God’s will. The story circulates because people either don’t understand or just don’t want to take responsibility.
Okay, so that is what I was saying. But does God want anything? Well, maybe so. To the extent that God wishes that none of us should perish, but some choose to do so, then I guess God wants. Dear Lord help me, for talking about such things.
I just do know that God wants health for your child. Sure, God’s got the power, so let’s receive it.
I pray blessing over you, over your child, over your household, over your classroom. Lord, give us understanding how to walk in faith. We commit our will to your will. Amen.