Learning differences, explained with care.
The LDA Podcast centers measured interviews with people who live with, study, teach, or support learning disabilities. Its strongest episodes connect personal experience with classroom practice, research context, family dynamics, and the policy questions around who gets recognized and helped.
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The LDA Podcast offers steady, interview-led conversations about learning disabilities and the people working around them. Its center of gravity is practical understanding. Episodes bring in an ADHD coach, an educational consultant, a speaker and author with lived experience of nonverbal learning disability, a handwriting specialist, a special education researcher, and a medical problem-solving researcher. The range is broad, but the show stays focused on how disability is recognized, supported, misunderstood, and lived with over time. It often begins with a specific life or school problem. Then it widens. ADHD is discussed through diagnosis, gender, parenting, co-occurring learning differences, and the strain of trying to support a child while managing the same needs oneself. Educator burnout is framed not only as exhaustion, but as a professional-skills issue involving emotional intelligence, resilience, communication, and institutional training. Nonverbal learning disability is treated as lifelong, with attention to identity, mental health, advocacy, and the work of noticing when a difficult internal pattern is taking hold. Dysgraphia is presented as more than untidy writing. That episode links handwriting, occupational therapy, teacher preparation, parent experience, and the need for better instructional models. The research conversations are more analytical. They question simple narratives about special education, bias, overrepresentation, and evidence, while still acknowledging that systems can and should improve. The show is not flashy. It lets guests speak in detail, and it allows uncertainty to remain when a subject deserves care. The conversation is mostly steered toward clarity and usefulness. That restraint matters. It keeps technical topics accessible without flattening them. The show works best for people who want language they can use in meetings, classrooms, family conversations, or self-advocacy. It is not a quick-tip feed. It is a place for context, validation, and informed patience.
Made for: Best for educators, parents, disability advocates, learning specialists, and adults with learning differences who want thoughtful context rather than quick slogans. It also suits professionals looking for accessible conversations that connect research, school practice, and lived experience.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting lived experience and research sit side by side. It translates specialized disability language into plain speech while still taking evidence, systems, and long-term impact seriously.
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!
Dysgraphia gets past "messy handwriting" here, while your ADHD parenting plan starts with your own oxygen mask.
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An earnest NVLD conversation shaped by self-awareness, advocacy, and steady resilience.
Carolyn Sophia Skowron's conversation with the Learning Disabilities Association of America centers on what it can feel like to grow up never quite fitting in, and only later understand that a nonverbal learning disability was part of that story.
A personal path into dysgraphia becomes a clear look at the training gaps behind handwriting support in schools.
Handwriting opens the door to a broader look at how learning disabilities get noticed, named, and supported. Kelly Fetter, a certified handwriting specialist with more than 10 years in occupational therapy, comes to the subject through her own child's diagnosis of dyslexia and…
A careful interview that trades slogans for evidence on special education inequity.
The LDA Podcast treats special education inequity with unusual care, and Dr. Paul Morgan's background as both a former special education teacher and a long-time researcher gives the conversation weight.
Practical ADHD guidance, taught plainly.
Applied behavior analysis, explained through practice.
Practical SLP learning with clinical backbone.
Carolyn Sophia Skowron says she was diagnosed with NVLD at 16, after years of tutors and years of feeling like she did not fit in socially or academically.
Certified handwriting specialist and former pediatric occupational therapist Kelly Fetter, founder of Handwriting Solutions, explains that dysgraphia is a neurological writing disorder distinct from messy handwriting, a condition she says she had never encountered professionally until her own child was diagnosed with both dyslexia and dysgraphia.
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