Until he was 12 years old, they thought he was a child like the others. With his things, you mislead her, his difficulty reading, his bad handwriting, but like the others. His parents reached those twelve like in a video game, where each screen is more difficult than the last.
How many hours had that couple been diving on the internet looking for a magic token that would allow their son to learn nothing more (nothing less). "Let's give it time." "Each child goes at their own pace." "Why are you going to test him?" "It's that he is immature." "Let's see if you are not educating him well...". Course to course, always the same song.
While he was little, they threw away, because "my child has nothing!" No mother assumes from the outset that it is not going well. Until she no longer pulls and opens her eyes. She opens the alarm. In this case, the decision came at twelve to do the tests that were not recommended, visit the paid psychologist, the neurologist... So, the diagnosis: attention deficit disorder. They were in the starting box in the middle of the boy's adolescence, in the most difficult still.
No one in the faculty – much less in the family – was able to see in all that time that the child's behavior was due to a neurodevelopmental disorder, a huge obstacle to learning and for which many students remain in the ditch before entering school. upper stages. Exactly 15% of the school-age population, a whole legion.
Neurodevelopment expert Anna Sans, in a recent interview in La Vanguardia, recounted something that should move mountains. There is no classroom that does not have three or four children! with, call it, ADHD, AID, dyslexia, or language or learning disorders. What's more, Sans said: 40% reach ESO without being diagnosed.
The circuits in the educational and health field fail miserably. The inclusive school thus becomes a kind of chimera and families become desperate. Poorly managed resources lead to school failure as much as maintaining certain topics or ideas in education. Teachers lack training and sometimes want to deal with singularities. To the school psychologist, hours of attention to so many cases. And the children? Children are missing all that time that can no longer be rewound.
