I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
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I went from raising Allegra into being Chairman of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and from there into writing this book.Anne Ford
Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
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I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
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It's depressing. Tomorrow we meet as a family. We do this twice a year. Billy comes and talks to us and tells us what's going on, and I don't think there's a single person in the family that isn't 100 percent behind him.
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