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of teaching methods, rather than one size fits all and a bunch of unhelpful labels that convince the child they are 'abnormal' and cannot change.

More links which provide evidence of the harm that labels' do.

http://www.medicalnewstoday .com/articles/17620.php

The harm labeling children as depressed' can reap. "So how did we get into this mess, asks the author? Undoubtedly, part of the problem is with pharmaceutical industry tactics, but changes in Western cultural beliefs have also resulted in more childhood behaviours being viewed as a medical problem"

http://buy-term-paper. com/term-papers/Special-Educat ion-Harmful-Labels-for-Slower- Children-?-5798.html

The writer argues that one of the worst existing problems occurs when children are mislabeled as 'special' education and just 'thrown' into some classification that is really unnecessary.

http://www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?sto ryId=4460341

"From anxious, often upscale, parents of young students to teachers in troubled schools, Levine delivers the same message, that all people - and especially students - are wired differently. He preaches the virtues of helping kids understand their strengths and weaknesses as part of understanding the way learning works."

http://www.childrenofth ecode.org/interviews/levine.ht m

"I always tell people that from the moment a kid gets up in the morning until he goes to sleep at night, the central mission of the day is to avoid humiliation at all costs." - Dr. Mel Levine

David Boulton: Yes, but my sense is that you're not so much pushing a corpus of knowledge that you want people to behave in relationship to, as much as you're trying to help inspire and develop and inform a different kind of lens, a different orientation from which to participate.

Dr. Mel Levine: That's one hundred percent correct. So, it's a lens where you look for recurring themes. Where you don't label anybody. Where you're humble about who is normal and who is abnormal. Where you're willing to say that a kid is quirky and eccentric rather than that he has Asperger Syndrome, which is my least favourite designation."

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