... in which our society is constructed does in itself create disability. Disability is created within society by attitudes, by the way society educates and in the way it allows members of society to access fundamental information. Indeed if disability was solely a medical condition for which a cure needs to be found, how would members of the medical profession cope with hidden disabilities, which are difficult to measure and which impact upon different members of society in very different ways. Specific learning difficulties do indeed fall into the category of disabilities that are hidden. Education has, in the main, followed a set model for many years. That model is a child is taught how to read and write, then throughout their education that child will be presented with information usually via the written word. At key stages in that child's educational development, historically at ages 11 and 16 but now also ...

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