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JOYCE WISWELL SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
L
ynne Master, M.Ed., has learned
a lot in the 50 years since
she founded the Learning
Disabilities Clinic (LDC) in Oak Park.
The biggest lesson of all? There is
no such thing as a person who can’t
learn.
“We cannot write off any child — or
anybody else — as a lost cause. There
is no such thing,” Master said. “I can’t
say that everyone can learn as much
as everyone else, but everyone can
learn.”
Master has devoted her career to
proving it. She founded LDC in 1968
to diagnose and treat learning dis-
orders in all ages. Students include
special needs children with traumatic
brain injuries, autistic spectrum disor-
ders, learning disabilities, hearing and
visual impairments, and emotional
problems. LDC also provides special
education staffing to schools and
designs programs to improve reading
and math skills, especially for chil-
dren below the poverty level in failing
schools.
Master turns 77 this month, but
has no plans to slow down. “I have
never stopped enjoying it and, when
all my friends started retiring, I real-
ized I didn’t want to stop,” said the
Huntington Woods resident.
She’s not sure how many students
she’s seen over the years, but admits
to “about 12 filing cabinets full of kids.
And now what is thrilling,” she added,
“is that I am getting the children of my
students.”
It is the responsibility of every
teacher, Master believes, to figure out
how each student processes informa-
tion.
“When I started teaching, at 19 in
1959, I had 45 children in my class-
room,” she said. “And they were suc-
cessful. I grouped them together and
taught them in a way that was inter-
esting to them.”
She was fearless, too. Master was
not shy about making impromptu
home visits despite the impoverished
neighborhood in Highland Park.
“Some of these mothers were prosti-
tutes. I never saw a rat in my life until
I paid a home visit,” she said. “The
mothers were shocked that I showed
up, but I said, ‘You didn’t show up for
Lynne Master works with Moshe Waxenberg,
23, of Oak Park, who is studying math
education at Wayne State University to
become a teacher.
the parent conference and we have to
work together as a team.’”
Her motto: “Competence brings
confidence.”
The approach paid off and her
students learned to love learning,
including subjects no one else was
attempting like Shakespeare, poetry
and Spanish.
LDC, the nation’s only education
clinic with the same accreditation as
public schools, has also helped adults
overcome hurdles, including a dentist
who could not pass his written exams
and an attorney who kept failing the
bar.
Master is a past national presi-
dent of the Education Industry
Association and a former president
of the Birmingham Temple. She
was part of the inner circle of Rabbi
Sherwin T. Wine, founder of the
Society for Humanistic Judaism and
the International Institute for Secular
Humanistic Judaism. Master served as
president of both organizations.
Master said she remembers each
student who has passed through LDC
over the decades.
“I take it all into my heart. One child
with leukemia said, ‘I have to learn as
much as I can before I die.’ You can’t
not take that home with you,” she said.
“That child did die, and it still hurts
me to this day.” •
LDC celebrates its 50th anniversary with
an open house 2-5 p.m. Sunday, June 4,
at 25611 Coolidge in Oak Park.
Visit ldclinic.com.