Dr. Sheldon Horowitz recently asked readers what might happen if parents and other advocates set out to raise public awareness through an "Occupy LD" campaign. We asked NCLD's Parent Leaders to share their suggestions on how to accomplish this. Below is one of the inspired ideas we received.

 

Early this year, NCLD's Sheldon Horowitz asked readers what might happen if parents and other advocates set out to raise public awareness through an "Occupy LD" movement. While I haven’t followed the “Occupy Wall Street” movement closely, I can appreciate the passion and zeal protestors exhibit as they stand up against financial greed and corruption. It’s amazing how quickly such grassroots movements can spring up, and it’s encouraging to consider what could happen if thousands of people across our nation decided to “Occupy LD”!

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I’m sitting cross-legged on the floor next to a struggling reader.  He has picked out a “Frog and Toad” book and declared that he wants to read it to me. As he opens to the first page, his excitement is replaced by concentration. I watch his lips form the sounds of the first word as his finger scoops under the letters, but he makes no noise. I feel my own face start to flush red and my heartbeat quicken. I’m just about to offer to read the first page to him when he declares “frog!” He looks up at me, proud and undiscouraged. Read More >

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Pulitzer prize-winning author Philip Schultz and hearing (no, experiencing) him read from his book titled My Dyslexia. His words invite the listener and reader to do more than just follow the details of his having not learned to read until he was 11, and his discovery as an adult, that there was an explanation for his life-long struggle with reading. Read More >

Having trouble keeping up with what’s new in the world of learning disabilities (LD)? Our news roundup is here to share the latest on LD from newspapers and blogs. On deck for this week: a new documentary on dyslexia, the power of an educator’s advocacy, and new efforts to put brain research on LD into practice in the classroom.  Read on to learn more! Read More >

William (Bill) Ellis was NCLD's director of professional services from 1991 until his untimely death in 1995. A former school headmaster and a fierce advocate for children with learning disabilities and their families, he was a driving force within the newly incorporated National Center for Learning Disabilities, formerly a Foundation (founded in 1977) that was poised to do even bigger and better things as a national not-for-profit. Read More >