The LDA Podcast
This 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!
Podcasting since 2020 • 90 episodes
The LDA Podcast
Latest Episodes
An NVLD Experience: A Talk with Carolyn Sophia Skowron
Carolyn Skowron discusses her lived experience with Nonverbal Learning Disability, which can impact visual-spatial abilities and social abilities. Carolyn shares advice, talks about the obstacles and social-emotional challenges that those with ...
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20:53
Creating a Space for All of Us: Teaching About Accessibility with Zero Barriers
Zero Barriers in STEM Education is a new, free educational resource from the Smithsonian Science Education Center that gets students to investigate barriers to accessibility in their community by using social science tools. Khadijah...
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28:49
NVLD: A Visual-Spatial Disorder
Amy Margolis and Prudence Fisher are two nonverbal learning disability researchers who are pushing to get NVLD included in the DSM, and proposing a rename: Developmental Visual-Spatial Disorder. Amy and Prudence discuss the signs of...
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38:50
Dysgraphia: More Than Just Messy Handwriting
We’re joined by Kelli Fetter, founder of Handwriting Solutions, to talk all things dysgraphia! Kelli talks with us about how dysgraphia is so much more than just ‘messy handwriting,’ how to balance building handwriting skills with accommodation...
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33:37
Dysgraphia and ADHD in Adulthood: A Talk with Owen Small
Owen Small, a research assistant at Trinity College Dublin, shares how ADHD and dysgraphia impact his day-to-day in adulthood. Owen discusses how the self-knowledge from a diagnosis helped to reduce his stress around handwriting and...
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