Dina’s Journey

What an Adult with LD Wished All Her Employers Knew: My Top Ten List By Dina Hendzel

Posted in Dina's Journey, Journeys on May 11th, 2010 by Kathryn Burke – 6 Comments

Listen to this article. Hendzel, Dina What an Adult with LD wished all her employers knew3 Disclosing my learning disability is a very difficult thing for me to do.  The label ‘Learning Disabled’ brings with it a number of incorrect stereotypes that can be difficult to overcome. I have spent nearly all my life dealing [...]

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“Struggling to Be Social” by Dina Hendzel

Posted in Dina's Journey, Journeys on March 3rd, 2010 by Kathryn Burke – 2 Comments

Listen to this article in audio: Struggling to be Social by Dina Hendzel Dina Hendzel is a regular contributor to LDExperience. She discovered that she had learning disabilities while obtaining a university degree. She works in the non-profit sector, providing support to people with learning disabilities. All those who work with her would strongly agree [...]

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A Certain Memory By Dina Hendzel

Posted in Dina's Journey on November 3rd, 2009 by Kathryn Burke – 1 Comment

It has been almost 20 years now since I started high school.  I was a rebellious, angry child – I knew I was “different” than other people somehow, but not in the way that they thought, and so I acted out and preferred to get into trouble with various deviant peers, doing so whenever the [...]

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