>>We know real discrimination. The public schools were the worst! They treated her like she was mentally retarded. They wanted to dumb down her education, and didnt want to privide her with enough speech therapy.
Most people can’t disconnect speech impediments from some form of retardation. Big Education probably doesn’t get a lot of government money for speech therapy, so they don’t care about it. But if they can get a child listed as developmentally disabled or mentally challenged (or whatever the euphemisms are today), then they probably get a lot more funding.
Of course, when I was in elementary school, getting funding wasn’t the purpose. Back then, they tried to get a stutterer labeled as retarded to get them out of the “normal” classroom.
My daughter was not a stuttered (except for a few months when she was on one type of anti-seizure meds. Stopped when she changed meds). She just couldn’t talk for a long time. It’s called apraxia of speech.
I remember when they tested her for colors when she was 3. They kept on asking her to say the colors of the blocks. That was what they were going to use to say she was mentally retarted.
I told them she knew her colors. I asked her to hand me the deferent blocks by color like the red block, the white block, the pink block, etc. Of course, she knew all her colirs. Personally, the testers seemed a bit retarded that they couldn’t figure that out.