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Rick Benjamin, PhD, MA (Leave of Absence Spring 2013)'s blog

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Alumna Lida Winfield Explores the Gifts and Heartache Accompanying Learning Disability

 

On Monday, November 5, 2012, Lida Winfield (MFAIA '11) brought her one-woman dance and spoken word performance, "In Search of Air," to Brown University. This dance and theater performance, developed in part while a student in Goddard's MFAIA program, is based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, and relates the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read – which did not occur until her early twenties.

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