Thursday, December 15, 2011
Presenter: Dinorah Otero LCSW R
There exist diverse perspectives that provide explanations about the topic of learning disabilities. The workshop aimed at considering the child and adolescent in his/her singularity. In some occasions, a parent who perceives that a child presents difficulties to learn at school may get worried about it and request for help. The child before his/her birth occupies a place in the discourse and the fantasies of his/her parents. Which is the place of this child? We may also question how a learning problem is signified by them. Other times, it is a teacher or a guidance counselor at school who may identify that a child has a problem to learn. Then, parents, teachers, and therapists would consider that a child presents a learning disability and attempt to solve it. What about the child? What does he/she have say about it?
The discussion in the workshop mainly revolved around approaching a learning problem as a symptom that implies an enigma. A child/adolescent through his/her problem to learn at school is saying and showing something. It depends on each parent as well as each of us, workers of schools and clinics, what to do with it. Instead of applying interventions for making the subject and his/her symptom to shut up, we can offer a space in which his/her suffering would be listened, thus, opening the possibility of finding a different solution.
Book in Spanish:
Problemas de Apredizaje Psicoanalisis
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Links offered by a participant at our workshop:
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