Posted in Personal Stories on Oct 15th, 2006 No Comments »
© 1995-2006 Dale Susan Brown dale-brown@mindspring.com Note: This article makes no mention of my learning disabilities. It is revised from one that I wrote for my college alumni magazine in 1995. It shows a small part of disability history and is offers to readers of this website as an example of my professional life outside [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Aug 19th, 2005 3 Comments »
© 1983-2005 Dale Susan Brown Author’s Note This story was first published in “Churchill Forum” in 1983 and then published in “Their World” by National Center for Learning Disabilities in 1984. It was among the fist articles that discussed the coordination problems and auditory perceptual problems of people with learning disabilities. I was a learning [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Mar 8th, 2005 5 Comments »
© Roger Dean Kiser I remember my Landon Junior High School seventh grade, math teacher’s name very well. It was Mr. Young. He stood out because the kids made fun of him. He was missing one of his fingers, and always pointed at students with his middle finger. For some reason I was not very [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Feb 5th, 2005 4 Comments »
© Dale Susan Brown I experienced job discrimination first-hand eight years ago. I had just started a self-help group for people with learning disabilities and appeared on television speaking as a person with a learning disability. The word got back to my office. Now, as my disability is invisible, I had found my first job [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jan 28th, 2005 2 Comments »
© Richard Wanderman Between 1970 and 1980 I worked and studied in the pottery studio at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, a most unusual place filled with amazing people. One of my teachers during that time was David Stannard. David moved to Alaska while I was still in Eugene and I heard tales about [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jan 28th, 2005 2 Comments »
© Dave I would like to share a story about my two sons who are LD. I am not writing this story to brag (but I am very proud) I am writing it for the parents and children who feel that they cannot reach their dreams because they are LD. When my sons were young [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 29th, 2004 1 Comment »
© Laurie Fais, Ph.D. lfais@psych.ubc.ca Ever heard the folk tale about the woman who complains that she doesn’t have enough room in her house? She goes to a wise man, who tells her to move a cow into her living room. She does so, but it doesn’t seem to help. So she goes back to [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2004 8 Comments »
© 1983-2004 Dale Susan Brown My First Job The first day of my senior year in high school, I eagerly applied for jobs. A drugstore manager hired me as a waitress. I was very excited. Two dollars and sixty five cents an hour, which was the minimum wage at that time, seemed like a fortune [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2004 3 Comments »
© Roger A. Williams wolvese@expert.cc.purdue.edu Note: I met Roger Williams online and asked him to submit the piece of writing he gives all of his teachers at Purdue University. “Obstacles are things a person sees when they take their eyes off their goals.” – E. Joseph Cossman Disability? Difficulty in understanding or using spoken or [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2004 2 Comments »
© 2002 Richard Fredlund richard_fredlund@hotmail.com As a dyslexic trying to discover the answers to the questions we all naturally ask; what is dyslexia? What causes it? Can it be overcome, if so how? If I have children how should I teach them to read? I am over whelmed by the wealth of conflicting information on [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 27th, 2004 6 Comments »
© 1997 Dirk Funk dfunk@tcac.net “Dirk, you failed your spelling test again. Since this is the second try you will have re-write each word ten times. Then you can take the test one more time. Study the words this time. I will put what ever grade you make into the grade book. Try hard not [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Nov 13th, 2004 2 Comments »
© 2002 Jim Ring successjr11@aol.com “But mom you just don’t understand” I said for the 1,352nd time in my life. “Why can’t everyone just let me be. I know what I’m doing. I know what it takes to be a success” frustration found in every syllable. The problem is that the frustration that arises from [...]