Special learning needs makes you special; makes you gifted.
Dedicated to a very special society need
“Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid” - Albert Einstein.
Special needs mean any one who might need extra help because of a medical, emotional, or learning problem.
Kids have special needs because they might need medicine, therapy or extra help in school - stuff others kids do not typically need or only need once in a while.
In a society where everyone was born to be programmed to eat, sleep, work and repeat; anyone who does not follow this program is immediately frowned upon by our society.
However, those who are born or living with any sort of special learning needs do not follow this rule simply because their brain is not programmed to work in the same way as others. Sadly our society does not accept them the way they are by making them feel inferior to them.
Many parents whose children are living with learning needs refuse to acknowledge the fact that their kids are diagnosed or even worse; they believe that their kids are failures in life by thinking that:
1) Their kids will be frustrated that they cannot “function” like other kids do.
2) Their kids will be humiliated and taunted by their peers because of their disability.
3) Their kids will be unhappy in life.
4) They will fail all of their exams; therefore it would be considered impossible to fix their failures.
This results into the kids being brainwashed by the society (including their parents) into believing that they are useless and nothing.
They are constantly pressured to function like the others and that eventually leads to their breaking point, and by breaking point we do not mean detachment from society, by breaking point we mean sometimes they commit suicide.
But, it is not their fault, what do you expect from a society that lowers and shatters other people self esteem simply because they are different ?
In a society where different are inferior, many children and young adults end up trying to conceal their so called flaws by trying to blend in with society.
But many people do not realise that different is dangerous according to the subconscious mind of the society as they are afraid of their revolution. Being different makes you stand out, it makes you special and honourable; Honourable because you managed to escape the basic mind of our society.
We cannot pressure special needs children to forcibly function like other kids, because we are forcing their programmed brain to act like another programmed brain that does not suite them. If a child cannot learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn, it is the education system that needs help and not the kids.
With these statistics in mind, can any ministry ignore the need to prepare for participants with learning differences and disabilities?
The sky is not the limit. Your belief system is.
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill.
Personal thoughts from practitioners:
Lydia Yacoub – so called special needs.
Mona Safey – mother of so called special needs daughter Nour Kassem.
