Hello Everyone;

This Monday, May 14th from 12 to 1 PM is the premier of the show i’m co-hosting with my friend Will Bothwell, The ADD Show. This show will be interviewing college faculty members from various institutions of higher learning across the country on a topic that hits close to home for me and I think many other people at Long Beach City College, Learning and Social Disabilities. We will be having the fun of interviewing Allison Brown, a counselor with our schools GO Project, a program aimed at giving intensive all around assistance to socially and learning disabled students at LBCC who want to transfer to a four year institution, a goal already enormous in itself and even harder when afflicted with and LD. Allison Brown has been one of the most positive and immediately helpful faculty members I’ve meet in the two years I’ve been attending Long Beach City and I know it will be an extremely enlightening breath of fresh air to talk about what can be done when your LD/SD and going to school, particularly with someone who is never short on actual hands on advice and intimate knowledge of our schools programs. The GO Project is located at the PCC Campus; they do AMAZING work. If you have a learning or social disability I strongly suggest you sign up to be apart of the program, it may be one of the best decisions you’ll make for yourself as an LBCC student.
Our goal on The ADD Show is to inform students about what is available to them and encourage them to take advantage of it without embarrassment or shame, as well edge forward conversation on these topic:
1. Why Do Learning Disabled students not take advantage of the services offered by their schools?
2. What IS offered to Learning Disabled students in college? What are LD students legally entitled to that they may not even know about?
3. Your LD and you’re starting to take advantage of programs at your school. What about communicating with your teachers about your needs? Your peers? How do you get past the stigma and feel confident about asserting yourself ? And how do you do this when communicating is one of the hardest things LD afflicted students struggle with?
4. A lot of misconceptions and misinformation about LD’s and Social Disabilities exist, but what unhelpful things do LD/SD people think of themselves? How can correct information change this so they can actually reach their full potential academically and join the college mainstream, rather than be hindered more then they have to be by holding negative paradigms of themselves?
5. Many Learning Disabled/ Socially Disabled students go through life feeling a huge wall between their potential/ ability to act act on their potential and turn it into a concrete reality. What new techniques are being used in schools to help break this way down and give LD/SD students a chance to express what they are actually capable of?

Learning Disabilities are a huge issue and effect every aspect of our society, educational networks, and economy. But infinitely more important than that, ignorance and misinformation on the topic has and will deprive those afflicted a fair chance at realizing themselves and lead to an unforgivable waste in human happiness . The idea of a students talents atrophying and never seeing the light of day because of something that is recognizable and treatable is horribly sad and hopefully with the immense communicative potential of our college radio station we can make a dent in this never happening again.

TUNE IN! I know it’s kind of a heavy topic but I’m guaranteeing you A LOT of fun will be had in the process.

Thanks so much;
DJBlondie aka Elizabeth Waite