Articles, education news, infographics and a podcast for parents of children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and ADHD. Written parent-to-parent, grounded in neuroscience.
One anxious boy turned things around not through more discipline, but the afternoon a teacher let him learn through the comics he loved. Joy is not…
A capable child who goes quiet the second a task gets hard is not lazy or missing a "learning style." A Boston geometry teacher found what…
A community survey of neurodivergent adults found most never asked their workplace for support, and that asking often failed. The barrier was not the request. It…
A rule memorized with no concept underneath is a rope with no anchor. It holds for an evening, then slips under pressure. The fix is not…
A headline promised virtual reality tools to fix coordination. The scientist who built one says otherwise. He points instead to something you already have at home:…
Told autism is an epidemic with a cause to hunt down? The record tells a calmer story. The diagnosis was born in 1980 and kept widening,…
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Clumsy, dizzy, achy, exhausted, and unable to settle to a task. Parents hear a different excuse for each one. What if they are not separate flaws…
Reducing a word count. Extra time on an assignment. Dot points instead of paragraphs. Some of the most common school accommodations quietly make the work harder,…
Meltdowns over laying out clothes or the first hard question rarely mean defiance. A child works from a limited store of mental energy, and the small…
