LDExperience

Kathryn Burke is the creator of LD Experience. She is married with two children; her eldest son is a gifted teenager with learning disabilities, ADHD and other health challenges. An active volunteer and education advocate, Kathryn has been honored for volunteer activities with children at risk, including citations from the Government of Canada. She has recently released a book entitled, An Accidental Advocate. It chronicles the journey of advocacy for her son, affected by learning disabilities, ADHD and other health issues.

Kathryn has an honor’s undergraduate and graduate degree in Sociology from the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. She held several positions of progressive responsibility in health and hospital management, including the role of Assistant Vice President – Ambulatory and Community Services for two urban hospitals in Edmonton, Alberta. She established a consulting practice in 1994, providing services to clients across Canada in the health, education and human services sectors. She is the author of the White Paper from the World Summit on Learning Disabilities. This document was designed for use by policy makers, and has been tabled in Canada’s Senate and in the Legislature of the Province of Alberta. Kathryn is also the author of the Survey on Education, Alberta’s most comprehensive survey which she prepared for Public Interest Alberta.

She has held numerous volunteer roles in education advocacy including positions on the board and executive of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta. She served as an inaugural member of the Education Task Force for Public Interest Alberta. Other volunteer roles include serving as a member of the board and executive committee for the Child and Adolescent Services Association (CASA), an organization providing a full range of primary to tertiary mental health services to children and adolescents in central and northern Alberta, and the Edmonton area.

In early 2009, Kathryn stepped down from the Board of the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta to assume the role as its part time Executive Director. She combines this activity with other consulting services offered through her company, Burke & Associates Inc.

If you would like to have Kathryn as a speaker for your conference or event, contact her by email or phone (780) 462-9497.