© 1998 Robert J. Heller
The LD (Learning Disabilities) debate continues to rage across
our land. Educators tell parents that they, the
"professionals", know what is best for little Johnny or
Susie. The administrators tell the teachers what they may, or may
not, use in dealing with the children; effectively limiting the
options to those which please the administrator, regardless of
whether or not the teacher believes the treatment to be effective.
The very last person that anybody in "the system" wants to
hear from, or pay attention to, is the parent who spends more time
with the child than the school personnel do, and knows the child's
capabilities and problems better than they.
Our experience in dealing with children who are LD, or even
diagnosed ADD, is that typically it is parent who gets fed up with
the unproductive approaches of the school and turns to us for help.
But, what happens next is truly amazing.
Parents generally are literature collectors. They run around
playing "20 Questions" with every resource they can find a
phone number for. They collect all the literature which they can get
stuffed into their mailboxes and then what do you think they do? If
you guessed, "Nothing" then you are correct.
For every parent who takes his child's problems seriously enough
to actually do something, there are 10 or 20 more who delude
themselves into thinking that if they make enough inquiries and
collect enough brochures that two things will happen. That by some
strange osmosis they will then become experts themselves, and that
the problem will go away.
It's incredible that parents with advanced degrees are often the
worst offenders in this regard. The average wage earner parent knows
he wants a better outlook for his child and will strive to obtain
it. The socially busy parent in the BMW who is busy on the corporate
ladder may often ignore the needs of his children, thinking instead
that somehow everything will come out OK if he talks enough about
how poor the school is and how his kid needs more help.
At Turbo-Tutor® we don't mail out a lot of costly
literature. Everything we have to show you is on the website. And
with our unconditional 60 day money back guarantee we know parents
have no risk in trying TURBO-TUTOR®. Since we adopted this program
of drastically cutting down on the "freebies", we have
saved thousands of dollars in printing, postage and overhead. But,
still we have a bad feeling about all of this. There are still those
children out there who need help. When the school fails them, (which
it usually does) their only backup is their parents. And, we know
now that only a small percentage of those children with LD who need
help will receive it. The crying shame is that their LD problems can
be treated successfully. We know. We do it every day.
