With accommodations, you get closer to that "potential" factor and you allow your child to live less encumbered by the LD. However, you can never know who or what your child would be without the LD.
Maybe the statement is meaning that sometimes the LD does mean DS can't do well in some programs and should skip them. Like, even though he is one of the strongest kids in his math class, he will never do well in math competitions due to his very slow processing speed. His processing speed is up to classroom needs because he gets better with practice and therefore can finish tests in time, but it's not up to the speed of kids who can quickly analyze and compute without so much warm up.
I agree! As a parent, one needs to still try to create an optimal environment, including any accommodations that might help.
I think it's more what you said in your last paragraph.
I read the quote as this, that you have see your child as the whole child, with the strengths and the weaknesses, not just the strengths.
