The LDA Podcast

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Episodes

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The LDA Podcast

This biweekly series from the Learning Disabilities Association of America features individuals with learning disabilities, researchers, parents, educators, and other experts to discuss the latest LD research, strategies, lived experiences, and more!

Episodes

HCP: The Healthy Children Project

In this episode, we talk to Tracy Gregoire, the coordinator of LDA’s Healthy Children Project. The mission of the Healthy Children Project is to prevent or eliminate the preventable causes of learning and developmental disabilities. While talking to Tracy, we learn about the dangers of toxic chemical exposure, different resources to find safe products, and how to advocate for companies to use safer alternatives in their products. For more resources from the Healthy Children Project, visit: https...

Jul 08, 2020•22 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast

"Tricking" the Brain into Reading & Writing

Today, LDA’s Education Committee Chair Kristina Scott Quinlan interviews author and literacy consultant Katie Garner about teaching strategies for new or struggling readers. Garner tells us that the social and emotional parts of the brain are the first to develop, and teaches how to take advantage of these already-built highways and connections to teach reading and writing skills. For more resources from LDA, visit ldaamerica.org

Jul 01, 2020•32 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Learning to Self-Advocate

"There's no ceiling to what we can do." Toby Baker’s educational experience was far from easy. She has self identified as having ADHD and a learning disability, and she frequently moved around to different schools throughout K-12. When it came time to go to college, her teachers and advisors tried to dissuade her, but she went anyway. Now she talks to us about her dissertation about the perception and success of post-secondary students with LD, and the importance of self advocatin...

Jun 24, 2020•20 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

Learning Disabilities and the Brain

In this episode, we get the chance to sit down with licensed psychologist Dr. Vincent Alfonso, and First Vice President of LDA Monica McHale-Small. Both discuss the definition of a learning disability and how it differs from learning difficulties, talk about the latest neurological research, and call for more federal funding for learning disability research. For more resources from LDA, visit https://ldaamerica.org/

Jun 20, 2020•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast

How do I manage them, me and their learning disability?

" Whenever you’re dealing with a difficult situation or you’re trying to have a difficult conversation, when you spend a few moments really trying to see it from your child’s perspective and validate where they’re coming from, you change that whole tone of what that conversation is going to look like." This week we talk about parenting strategies with John Wilson, the executive director of SOAR, a non-profit school, adventure camp, and gap year experience for youth with learning disabi...

Jun 17, 2020•21 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

Combating the School to Prison Pipeline

“It starts with each of us and our own willingness to grow and be lifelong learners, and extend that to our children, and then extend that to our neighbors...working with our schools and making certain that our schools are inclusive and that the programs that are offered in our school buildings..." Dr. Cynthia Stadel is an educational consultant out of Portland, Oregon and has worked in federally funded literacy programs for adults on probation and parole. In our discussion, Dr. Stadel disc...

Jun 10, 2020•19 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

Still LD After all These Years

78 year old Ann Johnson went through school without knowing what a learning disability was. It wasn’t until she was testing students with learning disabilities that she realized the term may apply to her. Johnson talks about navigating her life with a learning disability, and offers advice based on her own experiences.

Jun 03, 2020•23 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Dr. John King Jr: Supporting Learning for All

Dr. John King Jr, former U.S. Secretary of Education, and President and CEO of the Education Trust, talks about the role education has played in his life, and touches on topics such as diversifying educators, improving the student teaching experience, and allocating resources to the students that need it most. A special thanks to Learning Disabilities Foundation of America for making The LDA Podcast possible.

Jun 01, 2020•23 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast