Is My Brother Learning Disabled?

Ever since my brother was little he wasn’t the brightest student. I on the other hand am in advanced classes and so was my dad when he was young. My parents thought that maybe my brother just didn’t inherit it from the family so they thought that maybe if my brother tired more he wouldn’t be so left behind (he gets twos and threes in school in math, english, science, ss, etc..) During the vacations my dad tries to get my brother to study but he’s not even trying to do it. The other day my dad got mad at my brother because he was playing too many video games and for some reason my dad started quizzing him on stuff like his birthday and my dad’s phone #, etc. When my dad asked my brother what year it was he didn’t even know. My dad had to bring my brother up to the calendar and even then my brother (Who is 9) couldn’t even answer the question. I’m tired of my brother always getting in trouble because he doesn’t try hard enough because i know he is trying hard but he never gets to the same level as me and probably never will. I’m tired of my dad givng me lectures all the time (just like he does to my brother) so I really want to know if my brother might be learning disabled so I can get help for him. By the way sorry this is so long.
Please and thanks
~Jennifer~

Stimulus payment denied for seniors and disabled?

The Senate has finally voted down the bill to provide seniors and disabled people with a mere $250 stimulus payment. (Yes, I am aware that $250 x about 7,000,000 people comes out to about almost 2 billion dollars). It doesn’t matter to Congressmembers – they vote themselves raises every year. They don’t have to worry about inflation (which they claim doesn’t exist – but they need a raise though). Social Security checks are frozen at their current rate (again, because there is no inflation supposedly). Well, hey, SENATORS – MY rent is going up and food prices are through the roof !

Perhaps it’s time you think about your constituents instead of your fancy houses and SUV’s and vacations and personal raises !!!

And this was a bi-partisan vote – Democrats took the side of Republicans to help vote this bill down. That’s really nice of them. What is $250 for an elderly or disabled person for one year? 68 cents a day. Woo-hoo ! But we can’t do that – we need to bail out lame companies instead for TRILLIONS of dollars ! Especially AIG, because that’s the company that takes care of Congressmembers’ pensions. That HAD to be bailed out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100304/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_elderly

Yes – that was a rant I guess, but it’s still a question.

What do YOU think of this? Do disabled and elderly people who have worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes deserve to be marginalized or minimized in this fashion?
If someone or anyone can tell me about any positive ‘change’ that the Obamaman administration has made, I’d love to hear about it – because I have heard of nothing to that effect.
@ making fun – wait until YOU become disabled, which I hope happens fast. Disabled people aren’t ‘tards’ or retarded.
Edit: Sorry about my miscalculation. I used the number 7 million people when it should have been around 57 million people. Apologies for my error. So yeah, that ‘stimulus’ check would have cost the US the usual 1.5 trillion instead of the number I came up with above.
@ fodaddy – Hey, I’m not riding a free bicycle here. I have worked full-time jobs for my entire life before I became disabled – so I’m not a welfare sucking SOB. I agree with your statements about the banks and such. Perhaps you and your rich dad should become disabled and see how easy and fast the money can flow away.
Another comment to a previous answerer – Do YOU work?? Are you paying your Social Security taxes? Be sure that your statement about getting out what you paid in ‘and not a dime more’ doesn’t come back to bite you in the a.s.s. Someone else is probably paying for your internet access, phone bills, food, and everything else in your life. IMHO.

question about disabled people?

I would like to know how mute people adapt to not being able to speak. I’m not talking about deaf-mutes because they don’t even exist, deaf people can speak just fine, just training is needed
are there devices that help them communicate with those who don’t know sign language?
What do the parents of mute people go through?
Are there camps for deaf and mute people to experience a normal life?
What is the daily norm for them? Is it the same as the rest of us except that they must speak in sign?
What do they do when they are in need of help?
Are there devices to call the police for them?
Can doctors do anything to give mute people a voice?
What do mute people go through for school?
Do they take classes with deaf people too?
If some aren’t born mute, what could have happened to make them mute?
It’d be nice if you could give me all of this info and more I’m just curious and my engine searches have failed miserably.
If you could give me websites, that would help too
Is there screening or anything to see if a baby is really mute or just quiet?

Do you know if any airlines accommodate electric scooters for the disabled? What would they…?

…charge?
My husband and I would like to vacation in Alaska. This means that we would board an airline, fly to Vancouver and stay a day or two. Then board a cruse ship to Alaska. Then get on a bus to go to Denali, than a train to Fairbanks. He is not comfortable in a wheel chair. He can walk about 50 yards before the pain sets in.
Do you know if taking a scooter along is feasible? What about extra charges?
Thank you for your help. The travel agent couldn’t give me much information.

Need help finding a tax page for my disabled mother?

I’m trying to help my mom with her taxes this year. I was told I could file her taxes online (a 1040 form) at the IRS website for free. Has anyone done this? If so, can you post a link? I’ve looked everywhere on their confusing site and can’t find a thing!
My mom is living off social security so she doesn’t need anything very complex done. My tax guy said to do the 1040 online so she can get the stimulus package thing. Unfortunately, he is now on vacation so I can’t ask him. I figure most YA people do taxes…so who knows.

Do you feel this way as a parent to a disabled child?

I found this poem a little while ago and at the time my daughter had just been diagnosed. I felt I could really relate to it, and I have kept it on my laptop since.

Welcome to Holland”

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability – to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this:
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip – to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome to Holland.”

“Holland?!?” you say. “What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy.
All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.”

But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…. and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills….and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy… and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned.” And the pa
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away… because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss.

But… if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things … about Holland.

How do you feel reading this? Am i strange for feeling so strongly about it, I am 21 and my daughter has optic nerve hypoplasia
Chili~ indeed it was her that wrote that hun, if you speak to her can you please tell her how much she changed my life as my life went downhill when my daughter was diagnosed UNTIL i found this poem that put everything into perspective and gave everything a whole new light and way of seeing things.
I love Holland and dont care that I’m not in Italy now as im having so much fun and learning so much being here in Holland.
xx
Can I just add that I am quite new to Holland so I’m still exploring as my daughter turned 2 on Sat 19th April and our plane touched down when she was 4 weeks old.
xxx