Success doesn't come to you?you go to it

What is success?

Success is not easy to define. It means different things to different people. In addition, success may different at different times in a person's life. These include good friends, positive family relations, being loved, self-approval, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, financial comfort, spiritual contentment, and an overall sense of meaning in one's life. Different individuals may place greater highlighting on these various components of success.

How do children with learning disabilities become successful adults?

Children with learning disabilities grow up to be adults with learning disabilities. But at the end they are accomplishing the life goals and pride of success.  That is, many of the difficulties experienced in childhood continue into and through adulthood. However, some individuals with learning disabilities follow a life path that leads them to success, becoming productive members of society and living satisfying and rewarding lives.

Some get fail when the time for achieving the goals. Why? Because they are emotionally, socially, financially lack through the life. By tracing the lives of individuals with learning disabilities throughout the natural life, these studies have revealed a number of "success attributes" that guide an individual to either positive or negative adult outcomes.


What is the success attributes?

There are six success attributes for individuals with learning disabilities. These success attributes includes:

• Self-awareness
• Proactively
• Perseverance
• Goal-setting
• Presence
• Use of effective support systems
• Emotional coping strategies

It is important to emphasize that not every successful individual have power over each of these attributes, and some attributes may be present to a greater or lesser degree.