If you were to find out that information that will be presented to you was completed by somebody who has a learning disability, how would you react? Were your thoughts that they must have had somebody else write it, or was it some snarky comment like, OK, bring on the vague ideas and improper grammar with simple words. You wouldn't be the first, and sadly, you won't be the last because many people only see a learning disability in terms of someone lacking ability, especially when it comes to reading and writing. However, research has found that there is more to the story. Research by Stephanie Stone Horton, Lora Arduser , Robert McRuer , Melanie Yergeau  has shows that people who have disabilities may have a challenging time with certain writing or reading tasks, but looking more closely at these students experiences helps us improve upon how we can teach and learn in a more inclusive way 

   As stated before, many people find that people who have learning disabilities or disabilities, in general, have a more challenging time with writing or things that take cognitive thinking. The reason for this is because they think that people who have disabilities are overwhelmed with their disabilities. How this could be true for some is not valid for all. Yes, writing with a learning disability such as dyslexia can have its challenges. Still, people can do it. However, the challenges of writing with a challenge you face are different from "normal" writers. That is because the editing process is not as invasive as somebody who may have a learning disability.

When it comes to the processes of editing for someone with disabilities it can come with more difficulties and that being that if the student has more of a harder time with writing meaning that they misspell a lot of words and have improper grammar then the time that will be spent on editing and revising the work will be more time demanding then the typical writer for you will then have to try to read the context clues to make it sound the way that it is suppose to. 

The research shows that there recently has been many benefits from studies that focus on how disabled students perform compared to typical students.

However, the realization that students appearing to perform as expected can do the same as the disabled students because they are showing the same attributes but just ranking differently. It's also interesting to look at the time frame that the studies were performed. They were conducted from 1999 to 2019, which is a brief recent history in our time because most of us were being raised within that time frame. Meaning that the students that were found to be school dropouts in the early 1900’s to around 1980 that was for many different reasons but the most likely reason was that the schools were shunning the kids away there for making it nearly impossible for students to graduate. 

Despite Two decades of research, it's still a practice to shun people with disabilities in some states and countries. In "2017 you had France, Iceland, and other countries that closed themselves to experiencing and knowing the loved of disabled people but shortly found out that they shunned or aborting disabled people, so they weren't able to do work within their countries." So I feel that this practice will continue until we say that people who have disabilities aren't entirely useless and that they are going to amount to something in the world. I also feel that if the student needs help that the teacher should not belittle the child. For instance,I have been in a position where teachers use their power as an educator to make students who are disabled within reading and writing feel as though they will always have this problem where if the student is enriched with reading and writing and taught how to read like sounds out words . It's easier for the student to understand what they're reading. 

In an effort to challenge these misguided assumptions, there is distinctive research on people who struggle with disabilities such as bipolar depression and any mental illness. This was shown through an edited collection called affective disorders in the writing life. The editor, Stephanie stone Horton, opens the group by claiming it's a narrative. "She begins to explore the assumed, lived, and mythical connections between mental illness and the creative impulse. In many ways, Horton's opening chapter wrestles with the tense correlation between creative writers and mental illness" Many people would think that if the person were to have a mental disorder or a physical disorder that it may be harder for them to reiterate; however, this also shows that people who are struggling with mental illness are going to be helping it themselves because the writing process can put in a creative impulse for them to keep writing and discover who they are.

Within the paragraph above I talked about how the writing process would be better if there was creative difference within it. Suppose students were to have space for creative writing. In that case, I feel their creative impulses would kick in, therefore giving the kids more motivation to write. Typically, students refer back to and can do an assignment more if it's more based on what they want in their creativity. Instead of saying they were doing an argumentative essay on should chocolate milk be served in school or shouldn't chocolate milk be served in school, you're going to have very selective people who think that should be a debate where if you're going to say, hey we're doing a research article choose a topic that you'd like to research and then come up with both sides of the argument pick your side and then write about it it gives the student more control of how they write an what they're writing about therefore making writing appealing to the student

As someone who struggles with mental illness and other disorders within the mind and reading, it is astonishing to me that we've only started to research this for the past 20 years and that we hadn't done much more research other than that the reason for that is for a while people who had disorders were shunned or pushed away from society, therefore, it wasn't socially acceptable for a child to have a disability so, consequently, we just started now doing more profound research and actually understanding. So when looking at problems with disabilities and other disorders, they need to realize that not everyone shares the same thought process. 

I also find it fascinating that it is OK for abled body people to reach out when need be, but the second that a disabled person reaches out, it is automatically looked at as “Yep, they can't do it.”  The reason why I think that this is interesting is that they put a double standard on reading and writing when in reality, everybody at one point is another needs help with their reading. So hence, it's not this vast big thing like oh as a group of a whole like they just can't read or write like there's plenty of times where able bodies or people who seemed able bodies or able to ask for help without any repercussions