God bless you for the work you do.  As the mother of a child that suffered from a learning disability before much was known about it , you hold much of these students' future in your hands.  We battled daily the teachers' ignorance as well as our own.  From statements to the child from teachers_"you will never amount to anything " to "you are just lazy".  We  trudged on day by day until my child began to show progress and today is  a very successful businessman with several college degrees. I asked him after he was grown what he felt was the turning point for him as we were never in the know about the learning disability, and he said when one of his teachers kept saying to him that he would never amount to anything that he thought to  himself-you just hide and watch.