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I got to talk to Jonathan Mooney for the LD Podcast recently. Jon’s new book, The Short Bus, is about a trip he took around the Country in a refurbished Short Yellow School Bus, meeting people and exploring what it means to be ‘normal’.
Jon is severely dyslexic and didn’t read until he was 12, yet […]

As part of the research I do for the LD Podcast, a podcast about learning and learning disabilities, I have set up little “Google alerts” that let me know when people are talking about certain subjects on the web. News feeds, blog posts and more show up in my inbox every morning, letting me […]

In the latest episode of the LD Podcast, Whitney Hoffman interviews Laurie LeComer the author of “A Parent’s Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning, and Other Areas.” Whitney says it is a must read for parents and teachers who suspect something might be wrong or […]

Episode 28 of the LD Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure! Whitney continues her discussion with Nancy Blair and they touch on the early signs of reading problems, self esteem and all sorts of great stuff.
Stop by, listen, share your thoughts on the comment page, or send an email to ldpodcast@gmail.com. Or […]

Have you listened to the LD Podcast yet? The 27th show is up now. It’s about The Academy In Manayunk, an affiliate of the famous Lab School in Washington DC, the first real school just for kids with LD in the Country.
Episode 27 features the first part of an interview with Pat Roberts, […]

A Bit About The LD Podcast from Whitney Hoffman, Executive Producer.
The LD Podcast is billed as a podcast for parents, by parents of children with learning disabilities. The idea for the podcast came from the simple fact that many of my friends who have children with learning problems, or kids who were struggling in […]