Rethinking learning disabilities seen from historical and cultural psychology

Abstract

Historical and Cultural Psychology foreground that the biological factor determines the basis of the individuals innate reactions. The entire system of acquired reactions, determined more on the structure of the child's environment than on biological presuppositions, is constituted on this basis. If all human beings acquire their capacities through the process of cultural appropriation, current understanding on learning disabilities may be re-designed. It may be shown that adequate and consistent mediations may be revolutioaary when they concretize the cultural talent in the case that the biological talent fails to reveal itself as expected.