Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a Learning Disability Reggie Taylor, 13, behaved badly in school. He had trouble sitting still, and he was disruptive in class—not because he overtly caused any problems or was disrespectful to his teachers, but because he nearly continually rustled papers and squirmed in his seat. Teachers wanted to him to undergo psychological testing in order to get him into special education classes and his parents agreed so that any psychological …showed first 75 words of 1467 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1467 total…of the need for allowing teachers the ability to teach: “If you're given a label, it's like being called a name...You ask a kid why they are down there and they say, 'I'm LD or I'm BD.' It's like being in prison, and someone says, 'What are you in for?' Why should I be segregated just because of how I learn things? We don't need labels. We need teaching” (Hill, 1998; p. C01).