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Technology to Help with Learning Disabilities?

Posted by Cliff on from the education-without-condescension dept.

GotSanity asks: "I have a little brother who is now 18 and still can not read or do basic math. At an early age he was diagnosed with a level 10 mental handicap. I am curious as to what technology is available to help teach him to read. The major problems with most educational software I have found is that they both cater to younger minds (even though he has a learning disability he still is involved with everyday teenager activities like video games and music) and are often far to expensive for a working class family. I originally got him a copy of Typing of the Dead, and through it he has been learning to read and spell better. What novel education ideas can the Slashdot community suggest?"

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  1. Why bother with technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for those fucktards? Just let natural selection take over.

    Go ahead, FLAME AWAY.

  2. Eugenics Is The Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's too bad Eugenics is such a taboo field of research nowadays.

    If scientists did more work in this field, we wouldn't have people with mental handicaps anymore. Problem solved, no need for society to have to "deal with them".

    That's just my opinion.

    1. Re:Eugenics Is The Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Excellent idea, it would stop Presidents with the brain of a mosquito getting elected.

  3. Re:I hear there is an opening by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    You need to find him a job where math, spelling, grammer, and long-term memory are not issues.

    President Of The United States.

    Thank you. (QD bows, a large tomato misses him by millimeters.)

    Yeah, yeah, I went for the easy one. :-P

  4. The solution is quite simple... by disntrstd · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Reward the person with the most addictive substance you can find. You'll be surprised as to what a person suffering from withdrawl can do.