You might also check to see if he actually has any learning disability in the first place. Government school get extra money for classifying kids with that, and generally don’t really work that effectively with them. I know of someone (who get’s mad when I mention that it happened to him) who was classified as LD, and was basically told he’d have to find a job digging ditches. Fortunately a Vo-Tech teacher took a little extra time to encourage him, and he wound up excelling in that area. In fact he competed with other Vo-Tech students and won first in the state, went to the national competition and took fourth place, then went on to represent the US as one of their brightest in that field. I asked him what the school did to help him with his LD, and he gave a sarcastic frown, and said, "They basically shoved me aside and ignored me."

Being told you’re stupid (the reality behind the label "L.D.") would discourage anyone. I have seen the pattern repeated over and over again. A bright kid who doesn’t fit into the cookie-cutter, learning mold of the government school system, so he’s labeled L.D. and sat aside. The kid looses self respect and becomes frustrated. The emotional problems are simply an outlet that frustration generally takes.

The consensus among CAH parents is that CAH kids are generally brighter than usual. That could very well produce the very kind of non-conformity that a government school bureaucrat would mislabel "L.D."