LDExperience

A few weeks ago, I posted an editorial on LDExperience questioning why there is so little awareness about learning disabilities. In that piece, I described learning disabilities as being an invisible disability. The characterization of LD as an “invisible disability” is used often – to the point where it is has become a mantra among [...]

Whether we accept the incidence level of 1 in 10 or the debated level of 1 in 5, the truth is that there are a lot of people living with learning disabilities in our communities. So, we must ask the question, “Why is it that there is so little knowledge and understanding about this invisible [...]

Our LD experiences can be varied and range from those that are extremely difficult to some which are just pure fun. The latter does not happen very often, so it is important that we celebrate and cherish these events. Reader Erin Bickell wrote to us about a fun event that occured in Calgary in early [...]

I was diagnosed with a writing learning disability in grade 6 after many years of hearing the same thing on my report card. I got no help in pubic school and was only given extra time, a computer and a noisy room to write tests in high school! I always had to fight for what I [...]

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 [...]