I was recently going through an interesting article "A rose is a rose is a flower," by Aruna Sankaranarayanan, in the Hindu Magazine, Sunday, Nov 14, 2010. The article focuses on the pros and cons of diagnostic labels such as "Dyslexia with features of ADHD," "Intellectually Deficient," "Severely Autistic," "Learning Disabled," which more or less serves the purpose of imposing a medical certainty on intractable behavior.While on the positive side diagnostic labels attunes the parents, teachers, school management and society at large to the special needs of the child from a child's stand point labels are more like a cross which a child has to bear with. Check the link below to the interesting article:
http://www.thehindu.com/arts/magazine/article881892.ece
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