What are called learning disabilities are often not disorders of intelligence but mismatches between a particular cognitive architecture and the narrow range of methods through which conventional education delivers content. The dyslexic mind, the ADHD mind, the highly spatial or highly kinesthetic mind: each has genuine capacities that conventional literacy and sitting-still-and-listening instruction systematically fail to engage. The question is not whether the student can learn but whether the environment can reorganize itself around how this particular mind actually learns.
Patan