| Learning Disabilities |
| This area will be devoted to an investigation of all the symptoms of attention deficit disorder (ADD) that I, myself, exhibit and the ways in which they are reflected in the ways that I write, draw, generate ideas, create my books and the very look and feel of this web site. If you are interested in being enlightened as to the personal struggles that I have had to endure and, from time to time, conquer, bookmark this page and check back often. |
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| "Squib was an unusually tiny owl who couldn't hoot or fly." According to author and illustrator Larry Shles, his first book could just as easily have begun like this: " Larry Shles was an unusually wheezy, sneezy, sick child who struggled in school and got picked on by everyone. . . ." When Shles, 54, attended elementary school at Laclede School in St. Louis and Washington School in Normandy, about the only way his teachers could describe his problems was to say, "He's got ants in his pants." Here's how Shles describes his difficulties; "I remember looking at my classmates, sitting still and reading at their desks and thinking, 'Either they're from Mars or I am.' How could they do that? I felt like an alien. "Whenever the teacher started talking, I began day- dreaming. I couldn't pay attention, couldn't tend to the spoken word, couldn't focus. My reading was poor; a book without pictures was like a sudden weight upon me. "I also had a complete inability to retain information. I could take a test and do well. But 30 minutes later, if I had to take the same test again, I wouldn't remember a thing. "And I always felt like a social misfit." |
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| All illustrations, photographs and book text on this web site, unless otherwise credited, are Copyright Larry Shles 2002. Larry@hootsandtoots.com Site created September 2002. |
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