To the editor: Thanks for printing the wonderful op-ed by visitor contributor Sherri Helvie advocating for college students with disabilities (“Jokes about Newsom’s dyslexia reveal dangerous, persistent fable,” April 14).
I discovered I had a incapacity at age 39 whereas attending my final class to earn my instructing credential. I used to be unable to learn within the sixth grade, however I received a one-on-one studying instructor for nearly two years. I by no means forgot the lecturers who believed in me. Helvie is precisely proper to advocate for college students with all types of studying points who can nonetheless be taught at very excessive ranges if given an opportunity.
It’s mistaken for any grownup to mock anybody with studying disabilities and to make excuses as a substitute of discovering options for college students who need to be taught all they’ll. Public colleges have to have all of the sources of personal colleges to offer glorious instruction for the 15% of scholars who could have studying disabilities.
David Dillard, Los Angeles
