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B4 The Acton Free Press Wednesday April 27 1977 Learning disability a problem that can be helped Attend service Kerr Arc you worried about the progress of your child Do other kids make fun of him and have you and his teacher begun to believe he really is stupid If so Ihc more than 100000 child rcn in Ontario with a learning disability often referred to as a perceptual handicap He rnav have been mislabelled as a learner or even retarded and unfortunately by the time you decide to seek assistance things may be a crisis level Griffith Morgan is the Director of the Centre for Disabilities at the University of Guelph He is a teacher a psychologist and a professor in family studies has some serious con about our present tern of education The centre consists of offices class rooms and assessment areas and is responsible for research and development work under the head of learn disabilities Practical work is con ren as well as research We assess children that have been referred to us advise their parents plan programs with and tor them Morgan outlined and this can Involve making llasons with schools This process is important because we find out what the diff is and then stand by the family and help them he added nderstandlng The doctor stressed that early understanding of the problem is important and ex plained that usually by the time a child reaches the centre he is 10 or years old and hat had significant school failure Sometimes a learning disability is misread by a teacher who sees it as a behavior problem The situation becomes worse as the year progresses and parents are shocked to find that Johhny may to repeat a year because he can I keep up in reading or mathematics He feels that it can become an ego thing with a teaeher who will try to JOSEPH spoke to students at Centennial Public School last week as part of Education Week He discussed the history of the academy and described his research The students were fascinated by the talk and the many pieces of history he brought with htm including letters written home from former students slates and alleys as well as many pictures been with thi icnlre for six working with children She lie staff ire very to work mil seek when lhe concerns iboul their program Workshops Mrs and Mrs Pat up workshops or leathers sharing ideas that have been successful with children I lies recently flew to the workshop for district leathers was held Mrs feels Ihese skills ireustful for ill just special staff She also mentioned thai often attend work shops lo update themselves useful Mrs with Mrs bv Kerry aimers Communication is a con for the Board of Irustees They ask village residents to let them know of concerns so they can act on Ihem The meeting is May and all residents are welcome lo join in Clean up day for will take place May 14 All garbage too big for regular pick up can be left on bat with the regular gar Stoves chesterfields will be removed Attention village fellows- John Mick ebon has offered to creel a 17 fool steel beam donated by John in the Town Hall on Friday night This beam will support the upper storage area and Mr and some friends have donated their lime If anyone is free and in the area he might use some help Pioneer Day is planned for July and the Irustees have extended a welcome lo the scouts cubs guides and brownies to use the lown hall for any event they would like to hold The trustees will assist wherever possible A coffee perk from the Scout and Cub Association was appreciated by the trustees for use at the fund raising dance the Town Hall was a real success with a profit of being made as well as in donations This money should buy panelling and pro vide material to close in siorage area according to the trustees Any extra money will go towards tar peting for the new village hall thai is to be located in the fire hall Postmaster Cox would like to remind postal customers include your post office box number gen oral delivery or rural route identification as applicable to your address as well as Ihe postal code on your correspondence This is of special importance because Ihe Board of Trustees are renumbering all buildings and vacant lots in the village of Metric goes A bid to stonewall mctnfi cation of Milton roads failed in a near vote last week in council Councillor s motion to slash from the budget just missed in a vote The money is earmarked for changing road signs from the miles measurement to metric The metric system is being shoved down our throats Krantz told council Morgan Director of the Centre for Education Disabilities at the University of and mathematics tutor Mrs McKendry has been involved with centre for six years cope with the problem with out proper guidance ITny don like the child but won let til help Morgan feels the parents should give the professionals a chance if Ihere are concerns lit su a family doctor could assist if the child is pre school or Ihc teacher principal and or school psychologist for the school age child but says lo hesitate in getting another opinion if things seem unsatisfactory Special remedial programs can work bul il may be necessary to find special intensive shcooling by ex perls in the field Problems with reading and writing are just some of the signs of a learning disability A few indications tan be problems with lion inability lo rcnumhtr logical sequences and ex Ireme activitv anil attention span A disabled person is one whose intelligent is tragi or above average w hose- learning is impaired because his method of learning some things is different from the majority Decision After an assessment of the child is done a decision is made Many times do nothing more than reassure parent who finds out school is on Iht Iratk but other times a tutor be found and the school must be contacted to Iry and work out a program that will work for that particular student Tuition is offered at Iht centre and is intensive and straight forward Child is matched to home of the tutors are teachers whereas others are qualified in differ ways believe in Ihe common man explained Morgan and have faith thai if given an opportunity they are cap able of extending selves Aware He looks for people who are humane and aware of child ren needs and have the gifl for hard and intensive work The tutors use any program thai works and arc free experiment with and develop new methods Many mothers have a city for hard work he and are very successful be cause of Iheir life experience A lot of programs have been developed on Ihe initiative of a tutor like area resident McKendry who uses her own laltnl to produce these new materials Mrs Public School has used from the- for Disabilities lor their remedial program Pnntipil rant feels the ministry has made some steps in years in assisting special but does set- a need for con tinned change In this art a lit feels is most difficult for the- student average or av rage intelligence who has a learning difficulty Mr Mtltae was recent approached by Principals Organization and was asked to set up and chair a commit lee to assess spttial lion resources for Wellington committee ton of principals vice principals and leathers manv involved in special education group looked at ihe priorities of the county and a brief was submitted to hoard As of September there will be special education resource assistants on staff for every school reports principal Mcltae Mrs McKendry has found dialing with Public School staff a pleasant experience and thinks my parent who approached the in reasonable manner would he met Unfortunately this is the case in all schools The centre staff is eon timed with the recent backs in some special Hon programs in Ontario Morgan feels someone is not doing their job and is troubled hut it took until a month ago for the government to admit that it would have to make provision for children with special needs The ministry is a rather light inefficient system and the teacher train ing program is for Ihc birds he commented Policies and approach musl change he said Beating he drum about back to Ihe basics is not the point Some schools never left the traditional system and they are not necessarily betler they only look safer Depend on teacher Morgan feels schools should be made more and that teachers need to know more about kids- how group them and select for programs A sue classroom depends almost solely on Ihe teacher anil if children arc- selected and grouped properly they will know how to make use of resources according lo the doctor lie feels that wt have had a producer society and are now approaching a itly where parents will look Ihc system and Ihe centre- is not only for with disabilities or behaviour problems a re source Morgan suggests lhat if a parent would in any area of child develop ment tontacl the- centre The staff is open to suggestion anil parents are welcome to form inv discussion or re source group they mighl find helpful is a group of parents in Ontario who have joined together to belli the lions for learning disabled child the Association for with I arnmg Dis abilities iarints share ex permit is and find strength knowing are not alone and are thousands of children suffering from the same problem as their child This group is attempting to ensure not only their child but all children have Ihe receive an education appropriate to their individual needs The Wellington have a resource centre sponsored AC I Royal and Hubs is available at V 1 luisday evening from J Morgan and his staff at the I entre for abilities are working with who are mdiv iduals individual needs in schooling program Mam have been able to catch up and success complete year wilh intensive tulormi If you sour child has a learning disability and should lie assessed tin is for you and Ihc staff urge you lo contact Ihem Horticultural club has list of plantings CIL WEED and FEED 1869 Contains double strength in a golf green base to effectively kill all upright and creeping weeds Use per ft SALE fiog lb bag bag ft ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE OF WORK Sponsored by the Palette and Pencil Club IN GEORGETOWN AT CENTENNIAL SCHOOL 233 Delrex Blvd Georgetown BY INVITATION Friday Eve April 7 pm to 10 pm Everyone Welcome Saturday April 30th 10 am to 6 pm and Sunday May 1st 1 pm to 5 pm THE OLD GLEN MILL BEAUMONT MILLS Main Street Glen Williams Is Pleased to ANNOUNCE MRS JOAN POLLOCK Mis boon Mainour Sho WW friends 0 1 to Saturday to pm NEW STORE HOURS Starting May 2 106pm wont to involve every one- In our immediate and long range plans lo Make More Beautiful That the Ihemc and consensus the meeting the Horticultural Club held on Wednesday evening April at the Town Hall of the great natural beauty ot its setting the members of year old group now about GO persons from the village and the rounding district have set a three phase for making iht- most of the superb location for the delight and pleasure of resi dents and those through latest next the grounds at the surfacing of the road Academy has been arranged repairs lo the boulevards and forSunday May 15 from to widening of Highway oclock when it is expected youth was the theme of the United Church and Stone United Church on Sunday April Representatives from 1st Rockwood Scout troop 1st Cub pack 1st Guide company 1st and 2nd Brownie packs and 1st Brownie pack were present uniform for the morning service at Rock have been completed Ixmgrangr As a long range objective a planting for Irattgic plates in the village wis considered line idea was fotus on the development gardens which could la a unique ind singularly appropriate way of creatine some beauty spots Mure an some handsome of rock which would lend themselves this g and of course Ihis would imply an plainer commitment by boxes at each entrance lo Ihe the spring gardens should be at their beat This is a repeat DUITiper of a most successful first ven lure last year The general firefighters in Milton look public will be welcomed at a delivery of a new modcNt fee but the event will pumper jjsi week be free of charge for mem The truck will be used New memberships will mainly to combat grass fires be available Refreshments jn rural and a social time will add to The truck will be stationed at Ihe pleasure of the afternoon interested Ways of involving rcsi dints youth and school children vcrc amongst Ihem one is put into operation at Ihe melting namely dividing membership inlo learns each of whom would have a specific assignment These duties were accepted by mi present and ap proaches will be made to showing the tulips which were planted last fall and these will followed by a gay medley of annual flowers to be donated and cored for by members Ihe Mower beds at the tine cry and at the cenotaph will also be tared for by the club special arrangement the village trustees and the township council are plans install inter bins IhVlommuMy for strategic in village and lo try actively to educate people to use Ihese Approaches are plan to local merchants lo en list their cooperation pro viding trash baskets where appropriate Children and adults will lie asked share- in a major clean up early in A start will lit made shortly wilh plans for tree and shrub planting perhaps this fall or VW RABBITS ALMOST EVERYONE IS GETTING INTO ONE SERVICE AND PRICES TWO IMPORTANT WHY PEOPLE COME TO MOTORS NO DOWN PAYMENT BANK PLAN FINANCING UP TO DIESEL RABBIT MILES PER GALLON g BAZ MOTORS LTD Iheir cooperation Ihrough the courtesy of a tour of the In Donations to the Cancer Society are an appreciated mark of respect and may be addressed to CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF MILTON NOTICE Please be advised that the office hours forjht Municipal Building will be pm to 430 pm effective immediately ONLY76HOMES An excellent level of privacy with eight home styles to choose from An urban lifestyle at suburban prices payment Sales Office 81 Millside Dr Milton Phone 8788787 10 6 Weekends Weekdays TakaKwy south to Mb In St won on Main St to Dr Prices terms and conditions subject to 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