Re: tutoring LD students

["Dave Healy" <healy001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

Wendy actually poses two issues, it seems to me:

1. Strategies to use with LD writers.

2. Dealing with the "she'll-never-make-it-so-why-bother" attitude.

Much has been written about the first of these, very little about the second.  
Furthermore, it seems clear that the second issue goes beyond learning 
disabilities.

In a world of potentially unlimited demand and limited resources, is it ever 
right to make judgments about a writing center client's likelihood of success 
and to expend more time and effort on those whose prospects seem greater?

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