LD Month – Events & Highlights

Highlights from LD Awareness Month 2026 — celebrating the stories, learning, participation, and connections that helped increase understanding and remove barriers throughout October.

Michael Regis: Not Yet, Not Less

During LD Awareness Month, Michael Regis shared a powerful first-person reflection on his experiences growing up and being identified as having a learning disability, and how those experiences shaped the way he understood himself as a learner.

In Not Yet, Not Less: Learning Disabilities, Belonging, and the Educator’s Role in Preserving Dignity, Michael reflects on the impact educators can have on students’ confidence, identity, and sense of belonging. His story is a reminder that learning differently does not mean having less potential, and that the way adults respond to students’ challenges can have a lasting impact.

Michael also joined Talk LD Plus for a two-part conversation exploring learning disabilities, belonging, perseverance, and the importance of seeing the strengths and potential of every learner.

Read Michael’s story and listen to the two-part Talk LD Plus conversation.

LD Awareness Month Webinars

During LD Awareness Month, Alex-Andrée Madore and Michèle Minor-Corriveau joined LDAO for two special webinars through TA@l’école and LD@school, sharing practical and evidence-informed approaches to creating more accessible and inclusive learning environments for students with learning disabilities.

The French-language TA@l’école webinar, Ouvrir les portes du savoir, and the English-language LD@school webinar, Unlocking Learning for All: Keys to Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities, explored ways educators can better understand learner needs, remove barriers, and support students in accessing learning and demonstrating their potential.

These sessions were part of LDAO’s broader commitment to connecting educators with practical strategies and professional learning that can continue well beyond LD Awareness Month.

Webinar recordings and related resources will be available soon.

The Great Read-Along — 4,354,875 Minutes

The Great Read-Along brought people together across Canada to celebrate reading and raise awareness of learning disabilities. Schools, educators, organizations, families, individuals, and groups across Ontario joined participants from across the country in reading, sharing, and helping build greater understanding of the many ways people learn.

Together, participants contributed an incredible 4,354,875 minutes of reading. Thank you to everyone who took part, encouraged others to participate, shared what they were reading, and helped make the 2026 Great Read-Along such a meaningful part of LD Awareness Month.

Learn more about The Great Read-Along

Voices From Our Community

Throughout LD Awareness Month, members of the LDAO community shared the books, stories, and reflections that mattered to them and the many different ways reading can support learning, imagination, connection, and belonging.

LDAO board members, staff, advisory committee members, and others across our community took part in The Great Read-Along, sharing what they were reading, why they read, and what reading means to them. Their reflections reinforced an important message at the heart of our work: there is no single way to read, learn, or engage with information, and meaningful access can look different for every person.

These voices helped bring LD Awareness Month to life by connecting the campaign’s messages to real people, experiences, and stories.

Continue exploring voices and highlights from the LDAO community:

The Work Continues

LD Awareness Month may be over, but the work of increasing understanding, recognizing strengths, challenging stigma, and removing barriers continues throughout the year.

The stories, learning, and participation shared throughout October remind us that meaningful inclusion does not happen during one month alone. It grows when schools, workplaces, families, organizations, and communities continue to understand individual needs, provide appropriate supports, and create opportunities for people with learning disabilities and ADHD to thrive.

Unique Minds. Remarkable Potential.^™

See the strengths. Understand the needs. Remove the barriers.

Continue learning and stay connected throughout the year:

LD@school – Free, evidence-informed resources, practical classroom strategies, and professional learning for educators supporting students with learning disabilities and ADHD.

TA@l’école – Free, French-language, evidence-informed resources, practical tools, and professional learning for educators supporting students with learning disabilities and ADHD.

LD@learning – Flexible courses and on-demand professional learning for educators, professionals, families, and others supporting people with learning disabilities and ADHD.

LDAO – Learn more about our work, advocacy, resources, and ways to stay connected.