November 27, 1998

A Professor's Lessons From His Daughter About Dealing With Learning Disabilities

By RICHARD ANDREWS

Over the past year, several articles and letters in The Chronicle have reported claims that many learning disabilities are actually mere scams -- even that it is an unethical corruption of the grading system to make accommodations, such as providing extra time to take tests, for students with such disabilities. In a letter to the editor of The Chronicle this past spring, an official at Boston University even urged

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