To be of real help to children with learning disorders, the teacher requires personality attributes, training, and function very different than the archetype. To select a teacher who has the desired personality attributes, to provide the proper training for that teacher, and to afford that teacher the opportunity for optimal success in habilitating those children requires a change in concepts on the part of the university and public school administrators.
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