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LEARNING DISABILITIES WEEK

Invisible handicap made visible

THE INVISIBLE handicap is visible this week thanks to the
efforts of the Learning Disabilities Association of British
Columbia (LDABC) and community leaders during Lear-

ning Disabilities Week.

The LDABC is a voluntary,
non-profit: organization providing
information, support and
tesources (o people with learning
disabilities and to those associated
with them.

NORTH Vancouver LDABC
president Judy Webb...chapter
recently reactivated.

West Vancouver Secondary
School will be presenting a profes-
sional development workshop on
teaching the learning disabled to
parents and teachers March 11 at
the school from 7:30 a.m. to !
p.m,

By MICHAEL BECKER
News Reporter

Seminar topics to.be covered in-
clude Attention Deficit Disorders,
Identification of the Learning
Disabled in the Secondary School,
On Being Learning Lisabled and
Living with the Learning Disabled.

About 10 to 15 per cent of the
population suffer from some form
of learning disability, and approx-
imately 50,000 school-age children
and 30,000 young adults are af-
fected in the province.

Judy Webb is the president of
the North Vancouver: chapter of
the LDABC, The chapter has
recently been re-activated. Webb
became invelved with the associa-
tion for support in dealing with a
learning-disabled daughter.

One of the chapter's activities is
to provide parent support. “What
happens from a parent's perspec-
tive is that it’s not an easy thing to
identify. As a parent, my first need
was to find out what wis wrong
with my child,’’ she said. |

Trudy Hodges, treasurer of the
West Vancouver LDABC chapter,
has four learning disabled children

who are just about through the
West) Vancouver school system.
“We want to work together with
the teachers and administrators to
improve what's available for the
kids coming up,”" she said.

A learning disability 45 a
neurological dysfunction influenc-
ing the way in which people of
average and above average in-
telligence receive, store, organize,
retrieve and use information.

Due to difficulties in processing
information, childien and adults
with learning disabilities have
often been labelled failures.

To contact the LDABC for in-
formation call 922-4294 in West
Vancouver and 986-5025 in North
Vancouver.

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