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 communities across Ontario.

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About LD Awareness Month

Learning Disabilities Awareness Month is a time to increase understanding, challenge stigma, recognize strengths, and highlight the importance of appropriate supports and accommodations for people with learning disabilities and ADHD. Learning disabilities are brain-based differences, not a reflection of intelligence or effort. With the right supports, people with LDs and ADHD can thrive in school, work, and community life.

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

KEY MESSAGES FOR 2026

English

  • Learning differently is not learning less.

  • Support is not an advantage. It is access.

  • Potential grows when barriers are removed.

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

  • Accommodations remove barriers. They do not lower expectations.

Français

  • Apprendre différemment, ce n’est pas apprendre moins.

  • Le soutien n’est pas un avantage. Il permet l’accès.

  • Le potentiel se développe lorsque les obstacles sont levés.

  • Reconnaissez les points forts. Comprenez les besoins. Levez les obstacles.

  • Les mesures d’adaptation lèvent les obstacles. Elles ne réduisent pas les attentes.

Stats That Matter

1 in 10

Nearly 1 in 10 Canadian youth aged 15–24 report having a learning disability.
9.2% of youth aged 15–24 report having an LD.
(Statistics Canada, 2024)

31–45%

Research estimates comorbidity between specific learning disorders and ADHD at approximately 31% to 45%.
(DuPaul et al., 2013; Crisci et al., 2021)

52%

52%

More than half of Canadians aged 25–64 with a learning disability require one or more workplace accommodations.
(Statistics Canada, 2024)

37%

37%

More than 1 in 3 persons with disabilities report barriers related to behaviours, misconceptions, or assumptions made by others.
(Statistics Canada, 2025)

How to Get Involved

  • Share campaign graphics, facts, and local stories.

  • Recognize LD Awareness Day on October 15.

  • Connect with schools, workplaces, municipalities, and community partners.

  • Participate in The Great Read-Along on October 22.

  • Encourage your networks to visit LDAO.ca/LDmonth.

Donate / Support

Your support helps LDAO increase understanding, reduce stigma, remove barriers, and support people with learning disabilities and ADHD across Ontario.

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Events & Highlights

Here’s what’s happening this October — join us in celebrating, sharing, and amplifying LD Awareness Month.

October 1 – Official Launch

LD Awareness Month begins across Ontario. Share campaign graphics, facts, stories, and resources.

October 5 – World Teachers’ Day

Recognize an educator who has helped create an inclusive learning environment for students with LDs and ADHD.

October 10 – World Mental Health Day

Highlight the connection between learning, belonging, and mental health.

October 15 – LD Awareness Day

Join the province-wide awareness push by sharing graphics, facts, local stories, and community recognition.

October 22 – The Great Read-Along

Join schools, families, workplaces, chapters, and communities across Canada in contributing toward a national goal of 6,000,000 minutes of shared reading.

October 31 – Closing Message

Thank everyone who participated and encourage continued understanding, inclusion, and engagement year-round.

Stay Connected

  • Learn more at LDAO.ca
  • Explore resources at LDatschool.ca and TA@lecole.ca
  • Hashtags: #LDmonth #SensibilisationTA
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