TPP 266: A Conversation with Poet and Advocate LeDerick Horne
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What early experiences shaped LeDerick Horne’s journey into poetry and advocacy?
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.
Welcome to Tilled Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. My guest today is poet, advocate, and motivational speaker Loderic Horn. As a child, Loderic could not read or even recognize the alphabet. He was labeled neurologically impaired and placed in segregated special education classrooms. But somehow he refused to take this message to heart and instead decided he had something important to offer the world. Now, Lodarek is a performer. He's a performance poet and uses his gifts for the spoken word combined with his personal experiences as an advocate for people with hidden disabilities.
He regularly addresses academic, government, social, and business groups across the US and actively participates in several organizations and boards in the education and advocacy space. He's also the co author of the book Empowering Students with Hidden Disabilities. In our conversation, Lederic shares his journey from special education to college, the pivotal moment when he decided to become a poet and activist, and what his advocacy work means to him and the impact he hopes to have on the world. He also gives a powerful recitation of his poem Until Every Barrier Falls, written to celebrate the beauty, strength, and diversity of the disability community and his place within that community. Before I get to my conversation with Lederic, this is my last new episode for a few weeks.
I will be back with new episodes the first week of October. But in the meantime, I am busy interviewing this month some wonderful guests for the next season. And I just have to say, we are going to be getting into some great topics like special considerations for differently wired students this fall. Vision screenings and learning disabilities, non-binary, trans and gender nonconforming kids, legal rights, being black and gifted, teaching to e kids, the autism industrial complex, and much more. I can't wait to share it all with you. In the meantime, if you are missing the show, I encourage you to take the next few weeks to catch up on episodes from our library. It goes back five years. years, more than five years.
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How did LeDerick transition from special‑education classrooms to college and a math degree?
And now I'm gonna get to my conversation with LaDara Korn. And again, be sure to listen all the way to the end for that powerful performance of his really incredible poem Until Every Barrier Falls. I absolutely loved having the opportunity to talk with a Derek. I hope you enjoy listening in. Hey Ladek, welcome to the podcast.
Hey Debbie, how are ya?
I'm doing well. I'm so excited to have you on the show and to just really make sure that my listeners are aware of the work that you do in the world. Some of them may have heard you um speak at a summit or maybe a conference. But I would love if you could just start this episode by sharing a little bit about your story. Tell us um a bit about how you came to be doing the advocacy work that you do and who you are in the world.
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.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What early experiences shaped LeDerick Horne’s journey into poetry and advocacy?
0:00–3:18
2
How did LeDerick transition from special‑education classrooms to college and a math degree?
3:18–6:30
3
Why did LeDerick decide to become a performance poet and activist?
6:30–14:17
4
What does the poem “Until Every Barrier Falls” celebrate and why was it written?
14:17–21:39
5
How does LeDerick use spoken‑word performance to convey advocacy messages?
21:39–27:28
6
What are LeDerick’s biggest priorities in education reform and inclusive schooling?
27:28–33:52
7
How is LeDerick’s work influencing workplaces and global disability inclusion?
33:52–39:44
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