LeDerick Horne

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300 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2021 last heard Aug 2021

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My counselor within my first week of class told me to just stop worrying about spelling and write.

Just write and then we will deal with the spelling later.

And I literally woke up in the middle of the night.

you know, after that conversation and wrote my first poem.

And you know, it's it's it's something that I've been I've been really thinking through recently, is how I think so many of us

or waiting for someone to sort of give us permission to be our whole selves.

Hey Debbie, how are ya?

Sure.

So I'm an advocate for people with disabilities.

My work primarily focuses in on uh education reform.

Uh I am really well known as a performance poet, and poetry has a a key role in all the work that I do.

I'm the co-author of the book Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities: A Path to Pride and Success.

And I come to this work 'cause I'm also a person who uh is dyslexic.

and learns differently.

And um I was first diagnosed when I was nine years old.

I'm from New Jersey, so uh my school district when I was nine recommended me being placed in a special education classroom.

Um and it was a less than ideal setting.

I know it was a very segregated setting.

I spent three and a half years at a classroom at the end of the hall.

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