LD and Elite Colleges

TheYankInLondon
Fri, 08 May 2009 12:07:31 +0000

I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Boarding Schools, I know that my case is (as is everybody’s) somewhat unique but anyway… I have quite bad ADD and I go to boarding school and at my school there was a small LD deptartment that helped people such as myself learn to cope with their LD. The school was very tolerant of even the most eccentric coping mechanisms (such as knitting during lectures), as long as they could see that they were helping.

This was a HUGE step up from my middle school which said to my parents “he has an IQ of 185, ADD knocks him down with everybody else.”