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Technology to Help with Learning Disabilities?
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?"
what makes you think any amount of technology could help? computers can't work miracles. psychiatry ... might.
sorry if I sound blunt or trollish I'm serious.
With an attitude like that, the only way you'll be passing on your genes involves handing a cup to a nurse.
Another victim of moderation by insensitive clods... this post was directed towards the 2004 elections.
love is just extroverted narcissism
You need to find him a job where math, spelling, grammer, and long-term memory are not issues.
I hear there is an opening for Slashdot Editor
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Considering that the original inquiry came from a guy with the moniker "GotSanity", is it any wonder that so many responses are trolls?
Trolls spawn trolls. Who's the careless editor who let the original troll article through in the first place?
'HUKED ON FONIKS WERKED FER ME!'
'18 years old and barely literate. Perhaps you should teach him Perl.'
'Have you considered exposing him to products from Computer Associates? Oh wait, you want to expose him to software written for retards, not 'software written BY retards.'
Eugenics Is The Answer. It's too bad Eugenics is such a taboo field of research nowadays.'
'Why? Just kill him already
'I always thought that M$Win was cretaed for people with disabilites... You know, point and drool...'
'Why bother with technology for those fucktards? Just let natural selection take over.'
You dudes are harsh!
(But the CA line really was funny.)
"A microprocessor... is a terrible thing to waste." --
GeneralEmergency
slashdot IS special ed software, for Nerdtards.
wake up and hold your nose
Total Fark.
If you fall off a building, go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will be like hey, free dummy
I am not a special education teacher, so pardon me if I don't know what a Level 10 Mental Handicap is. I suppose from the fact that he is 18 and can't read, the implication is this is extremely bad. However, most adult blacks cannot read or do basic math either. I think if the author had done more research, it wouldn't have come off so insensitive.