Jerome J. Schultz

Having the opportunity to be appropriately educated in a regular classroom gives your child, for perhaps the first time, the chance to feel “like other kids.” The trip to the special education room often has a stigma attached to it.

A nueropsychologist and former middle special education teacher lists the qualities of an ideal teacher for kids with learning disabilities. “I am optimistic,” he says, “for I have been to the classroom (hundreds of them, in fact) and there is light.”