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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Students should be ideally be given extra attention in the areas where they are struggling and encouraged to work harder to develop these skills, but pretending that there's some innate 'learning disorder' holding them back helps noone.
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Maybe with young children, but one of the things I always found depressing about school is that I was forced to spend a lot of time working on subjects I seemed to have zero ability at (art & music). Obviously it's probably not a good idea to let people specialise completely at the age of three, but likewise it's frustrating to have your time wasted endlessly trying to get you up to some mythical "equal" level with everyone else when that's not really going to happen. Of course this is not to deny the importance of basic literacy and numeracy skills.
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It would be stupid to invent some 'practical ability learning disorder' to describe this though - I was just good at some things and not at others, like most people.
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Yeah, although I suspect the main reason terms like 'dyslexia' get invented is to combat (or into) some notion of "general intelligence" which has plagued enquiry in this area for a number of years.
I think in general there's no ingherent problem with inventing terms for being especially bad at drawing / writing / reading / maths. Yes, people can react by treating these terms as excuses why they're not very good at x, but that's a problem which doesn't seem insurmountable.