LDExperience

Never have I been so popular as I am online.  As a child I was lucky to have one friend and see family members on major holidays.  Today, I have over 160 friends and family members that I keep in touch with, off and on, at any given time.  For someone with a learning disability, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]