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L.E.A.D.
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Learning and Education About Disabilities
Learning about ourselves
Educating others
Accepting our limitations
Developing our strengths
----allowed to be different----
You're not...
You're not broken.
You don't need to be fixed.
You're fine just the way you are.
You just got the wrong directions on how you think, how you learn, and how you do things.
Because of that it gets confusing and frustrating.
LEAD will help you get the right directions on how you think, how you learn, and how you do things.
Then it will get less confusing.
Because you're not broken.
You don't need to be fixed.
You're fine just the way you are.
(c) 2004 Claudia Lowe, J.D.
"We
are students who have adopted a mission to educate ourselves and others with respect to the social, academic, and emotional
aspects of disabilities as well as the rights of those with disabilities."
What it is:
An educational program for students with learning disabilities.
Activities:
- Host community speakers to further the educational opportunities for ourselves and our peers.
- Give formal and informal presentations to teachers, students and communities to increase their level
of understanding and awareness.
- Provide in service training for new teachers with respect to learning disabilities and special needs
students.
- Act as a resource to our larger community for information regarding learning disabilities and special
needs.
- Develop skills for self-advocating with teachers, fellow students, administrators, and the community.
- Conduct mentoring programs for all ages level students with learning disabilities and special
needs.
LEAD is about pulling exceptional young people together and addressing the issues of strengths and weaknesses and then
developing self-confidence, success, and leadership.
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Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he
sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples
build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistence.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Some see things that are, and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not.
Robert F Kennedy
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The Advocacy and Learning Center (TALC)
Acquiring Socialization Skills through Acting and Drama
"We LEAD the way."
These are just some of the things that can happen in a community-based
LEAD group...
develop meta-cognitive skills
reframe students'
experiences
identify and explore transition as a vital
key to success
create opportunities for success
develop a positive self-esteem
overcome learned helplessness
move through the grieving
process
non-adversarial self-advocacy
active rather than passive learning
aware
of universal design to learning
learn how to be partners
with parents and educators in educational planning
help parents
transition from parent advocates to partner advocates
build
confidence
think out of the box
develop problem-solving skills
direct
one's own IEP or 504 plan meetinge
stablish support systems
social skills
learning how "I" learn
self-understanding of
disabilities and how they impact learning and socialization
community
outreach and mentoring
LEAD Students of America (LSA),
also known as LEAD and Club LEAD, is an organization designed to educate and inform others about disabilities that impact
learning, to educate ourselves about disabilities and how they impact our learning, to develop effective and skillful communication
and self-advocacy skills, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character.
LEAD
(Learning and Education About Disabilities) is a community-based program and a motivating force behind positive changes for
students with disabilities working together to promote educational best practices for special education IEPs and Section 504
plans. Establishing
a LEAD program in a community provides an excellent opportunity for adults to volunteer their time to help students break
down the negative stigmas of disabilities that can be the most limiting features of having a disability. Adult volunteers
can learn more about the needs of students with LD/ADHD and other disabilities that impact learning. In this program,
adults can help students develop self-confidence and self-determination, with socialization and leadership skills, with support
transitions into job, career, or the next level of education, by sharing their own skills and talents with students.
To
learn more about starting a LEAD program in your community e-mail ourorhskids@yahoo.com Visit
our web sites at http://ourorhskids.pages.web.com or www.ldcan.com
© CMLowe
2002
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