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Keynote!!!
Interest-based Technical Assistance
Community-based LEAD program...
In a community-based LEAD program, students take on leadership roles, mentoring, and community activities. They discover
their own personal style of learning, focus on using their strengths to bridge their weaknesses and most importantly to advocate
for their individual educational needs. They learn about their rights and responsibilities, communication and negotiation
skills, and how to direct their own IEP/504 meetings. LEAD students learn that not all disabilities are visible and that no
one is perfect. They come to understand that, often times, the most limiting feature of having a disability is the negative
stigma attached to it. They learn how to appreciate their unique minds and how to use the skills they have learned in LEAD
for self-determination and success in life.
Cathy Manus, Educational Strategist
Claudia Lowe, J.D., SENC
LEAD
Benefits of a Community-based LEAD Program
Classroom-based LEAD program...
Elementary students with learning disabilities in Friendship Circle demonstrate the potential they have for self-awareness,
peer support, and leadership. A wide variety of topics are discussed including learning styles, self-awareness profiles,
advocacy, goal setting, brain functioning, positive affirmations, asset building, character traits, role models, conflict
resolution, life story, and the hero's journey. The students experience the significance of sitting in a circle where
they can draw on the experience of each one in the group. The students in Friendship Circle reflect the courage, wisdom,
and perseverance they have within.
Karen Basquez
A conference-based LEAD program
Arline Krieger, PV-LDA
"It sounds wonderful. I will be there with at least my daughter so that she can attend the Transition
Workshop, too. This will be her second time attending this workshop and she can't wait to go. She had a ball at
the last one she went to. My son went to the Transition Workshop the Pomona LDA sponsored last fall and he also really
liked it. And I am really excited about hearing Reed in person." Nan, a parent
A school-based LEAD program...
An educational program for students with learning disabilities at Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs,
CO. Since 1997 the LEAD program has built a reputation, throughout the nation, as an exemplary curriculum for Learning
& Education About Disabilities. Through classroom interaction and training, the students involved in the LEAD program
have empowered themselves through education to advocate for rights available to individuals diagnosed with learning disabilities.
The LEAD program boasts a 100% graduation by LEAD students since program inception with 95% pursuing college. Throughout
the school year LEAD students offer mentoring programs for elementary and junior high students with learning disabilities.
Al Pocock
LEAD
Successful Strategies for Promoting Self Advocacy Among Students With LD
LEAD Foundation
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