“With an LD you’re always mediocre and expect to be mediocre”: Perceptions of Adults Recently Diagnosed with Learning Disabilities | Zendy

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“With an LD you’re always mediocre and expect to be mediocre”: Perceptions of Adults Recently Diagnosed with Learning Disabilities

Author(s) -

Cheryll Duquette,

Stephanie Fullarton

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

exceptionality education international

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.226

H-Index - 8

ISSN - 1918-5227

DOI - 10.5206/eei.v19i1.7637

Subject(s) - psychology , perception , variety (cybernetics) , qualitative research , set (abstract data type) , learning disability , inclusion (mineral) , medical education , developmental psychology , pedagogy , social psychology , medicine , sociology , social science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science , programming language

The pur pose of this qualitative study was to examine the educational and em-ployment experiences of 10 adults who had recently been diagnosed as having a learning disability. Seven of the participants eventually obtained a high school diploma or the equivalent and they all had held a variety of entry-level jobs. The participants felt that having an undiagnosed learning disability had negatively af-fected their past, present, and future educational and employment opportunities. The impor tance of a caring adult to advocate on behalf of at-risk students and a set of goals, skills, and abilities that should be developed while in school emerged from the find ings. ISSN 1918-5227 Pages 51- 71

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