Addressing a learning disability in a writing prompt

austinmshauri
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:21:41 +0000

My daughter avoided mentioning her LD because she feels it doesn’t define her. She wants to be Austin Jr, not Austin Jr with the learning disorder.

We approached the essays by thinking of a list of traits we thought the schools wanted and she picked stories to reflect them. I think she wrote about balancing an EC with academics. The EC has become a lifelong sport and finding the correct balance led to leadership opportunities (coaching younger kids) and summer jobs related to the sport. She was able to make a connection between the sport and a couple academic subjects (physics and math), so it really told a lot more about her than discussing her LD would have.