Learning Disabilities Association of Windsor - Essex County

10/15/2026

Today is Learning Disabilities Awareness Day.

Learning differently is not learning less.
Today is an opportunity to increase understanding, challenge stigma, recognize strengths, and continue removing the barriers that can prevent people with learning disabilities and ADHD from fully participating in school, work, and community life.

Learning disabilities are not a reflection of intelligence, effort, or potential.

Support creates access.�Accommodations remove barriers.�High expectations and appropriate support can exist together.
And perhaps most importantly, every learner deserves to be understood not only by the challenges they experience, but by their strengths, abilities, and potential.

Today, we invite schools, families, workplaces, organizations, and communities across Ontario to help amplify that message.

Learn more and access LD Awareness Month resources:�
https://loom.ly/ozVA3T0�
https://loom.ly/Qb_Ydds

Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.™

10/14/2026

What does it take for a student to feel that they belong as a learner?

A new two-episode podcast conversation with Michael Regis is now available.

Building on his recent LD@school article, Not Yet, Not Less: Learning Disabilities, Belonging, and the Educator’s Role in Preserving Dignity, Michael reflects on learning disability, identity, belonging, dignity, and the experiences that can shape how students come to see themselves as learners.

Michael also brings more than a decade of professional experience in human rights, equity, and belonging, including his current work supporting system-level equity, human rights, belonging, and student success.

His story is a powerful reminder that students may carry the effects of how they were treated in school for years, but they also carry the moments when an educator recognized their strengths and believed in what was possible.

📖 Read Michael’s story and 🎧 listen to both episodes of the conversation:
https://loom.ly/dWALkw4 �
Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.™

I did not feel that I belonged in school as a learner. I didn’t have the words or consciousness for it then, but as early as Grade 1, I began to disengage, internalizing the idea that I was not capable of achieving academically.

10/12/2026

Support is not an advantage. It is access.

For people with learning disabilities and ADHD, appropriate supports and accommodations are not about making things easier. They are about removing barriers so people have equitable opportunities to learn, participate, and demonstrate what they know and can do.

Support can look different for each person. It might include assistive technology, additional time, explicit instruction, accessible materials, or another accommodation matched to individual needs.

Accommodations do not lower expectations. They help remove the barriers that can stand in the way of meeting them.

This Learning Disabilities Awareness Month, help us change the conversation about support and access.

Learn more and access campaign resources:�https://loom.ly/ozVA3T0�https://loom.ly/Qb_Ydds

Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.™

LD Awareness Month 2026 – Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential. This October, join us in increasing understanding, challenging stigma, recognizing strengths, and removing barriers for people with learning disabilities and ADHD. Together, we can help create more inclusive schools, workplaces, and com...

10/09/2026

What happens when a student begins to believe they do not belong as a learner?

Ahead of World Mental Health Day, we’re sharing a new LD@school resource that explores the powerful connection between learning, dignity, identity, and belonging.

In Not Yet, Not Less: Learning Disabilities, Belonging, and the Educator’s Role in Preserving Dignity, Michael Regis reflects on his own experiences growing up with a learning disability and on the educators, supports, and moments that shaped how he saw himself as a learner.

The resource also offers practical considerations for educators, including:
protecting dignity when offering support
reading shutdown as communication rather than attitude
maintaining high expectations while changing the pathway
naming strengths, not only struggles
bringing a calm presence to moments of frustration
recognizing how race, identity, and disability can intersect

Michael’s message is a powerful reminder that students can carry both the hurt and the encouragement they experience in school for years.

👉 Read the new resource:�https://loom.ly/dWALkw4

And watch for a new podcast conversation with Michael Regis on October 13, where we’ll continue the conversation about learning disabilities, belonging, dignity, and what educators can do to help students recognize their strengths and potential.

Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.™

I did not feel that I belonged in school as a learner. I didn’t have the words or consciousness for it then, but as early as Grade 1, I began to disengage, internalizing the idea that I was not capable of achieving academically.

10/08/2026

One day. One national reading challenge. A goal of 6 million minutes.

As part of Learning Disabilities Awareness Month, LDAO is joining The Great Read-Along on October 22.

Schools, families, workplaces, chapters, and communities across Canada are invited to read together and contribute toward a shared national goal of 6,000,000 minutes of reading. Participants can choose to read for 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes.

It’s simple:
- Choose what you want to read.� - Choose how long you want to read.� - Register your commitment.� - Then join readers across Canada on October 22.

Registration is open now, and registered participants also have access to free educational kits and ready-to-use resources.

👉 Sign up and make your reading commitment:�https://loom.ly/cpi6IDs

Let’s help Canada reach 6 million minutes.

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10/06/2026

What’s getting in the way? What could help?

Supporting students to become more aware of their own learning does not always require another program, a lengthy lesson, or an individual conversation with every student.

Our new LD@school resource, From Barriers to Strategies: Supporting Metacognition Through Classroom Conversation, explores how brief, shared classroom conversations can help students identify what is getting in the way of their learning and consider strategies they can use to move forward.

Drawing on research in de-streamed Grade 9 mathematics, the resource looks at a simple classroom routine built around two questions:

What barriers might get in the way of our success?�What strategies could we use to succeed?

The research suggests that these conversations can help make learning barriers and strategies more visible while supporting awareness, focus, connection, and the normalization of struggle.

Particularly for students with learning disabilities and ADHD, making barriers explicit can be an important first step toward choosing an appropriate strategy or support.

As part of Learning Disabilities Awareness Month, explore five practical takeaways educators can put into practice.

Read the full resource on LD@school: https://loom.ly/cHY9fAA

Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.™

10/04/2026

October is Learning Disabilities Awareness Month.

Throughout the month, we’re coming together to increase understanding, challenge stigma, recognize strengths, and highlight what becomes possible when barriers are removed for people with learning disabilities and ADHD.

10/02/2026

Help your child build confidence and develop essential social skills with our BEST Foundations programs! Designed for children in Grades 1–6, BEST Junior serves Grades 1–3, while BEST serves Grades 4–6. Through engaging activities in a supportive environment, participants learn to better understand themselves, communicate with others and build positive relationships. No diagnosis is required.

10/01/2026

⛳️ What a day! Our 2nd Annual Ladies Golf Tournament was a SUCCESS! 💕🏌️‍♀️

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out, played, laughed, celebrated, and helped make the day so special. We truly couldn’t have done it without our amazing golfers, sponsors, volunteers, and everyone who contributed! 🩷

🏆 Congratulations to our winners!
🏌️‍♀️ Tournament Winners: Wendy Graham Madeira, Kasi Coulter, Tracey Jacobs & Diane Piroli
🎯 Putting Contest: Marla Spidialeri
⛳️ Chipping Contest: Meghan Rooney
📍 Closest to the Pin: Jelena Lastro
🏌️‍♀️ Hit the Green: Monika Lombardi
🔥 Hole-in-One: Janet Livingstone — 13th Hole!

A very special thank you to our incredible sponsors:
🏆 Title Sponsor: Simard & Associates
🍽️ Dinner Sponsor: Sunshine Drugs
🎯 Putting Contest Sponsor: The Narmco Group
⛳️ Hit the Green Sponsor: M@Technologies
📍 Closest to the Pin Sponsor: DLC Advantage
📝 Scorecard Sponsors: Camille & Dave Cecchin
🚩 Hole Sign Sponsors: NR7, Monarch, Hawkins & Founders Wealth

And of course, thank you to Oxley Beach Golf Course for hosting us and helping make the day so much fun! ⛳️
We are already looking forward to doing it all again next year! 💕 Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to everyone who made our 2nd Annual Ladies Golf Tournament one to remember! 🏌️‍♀️✨

09/30/2026

🧡 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 🧡

Today, we take time to remember and honour the children who never returned home from residential schools, the Survivors, their families, and Indigenous communities across Canada.

Truth and Reconciliation is about listening, learning, remembering, and taking meaningful steps toward a better future.

Today and every day, we can:
🧡 Learn about the history and lasting impacts of residential schools
🧡 Listen to and learn from Indigenous voices
🧡 Teach children about truth, respect, and reconciliation
🧡 Support Indigenous communities and organizations

Every child deserves to feel safe, valued, heard, and supported.
Today, we remember. We learn. We reflect. We commit to doing better. 🧡