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 Texas school for kids who learn differently runs on three rules. Homework only finishes the day. Supports live inside the school day. Reading is taught,…
Myers-Briggs gives parents a tidy map of a child. But in every story that worked, the map was not what helped. A parent stopped, looked, and…
Slow reading never measured how smart you were. The critic you still hear learned its lines from a system. That system treated a reading struggle as…
Classes of twelve. Wobble cushions, movement breaks and weekly typing lessons. At one UK school for children with dyslexia, kids once called lazy settle in. Its…
"Meet them where they are" sounds kind but vague. In math it means two plain things. One is the stage your child is at with one…
Three hours on a game. Ten minutes of homework that never starts. To us, that is not a character flaw. Here is what to check before…
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Planners and charts keep failing your child for a reason. They were built for a brain that files things away. One photographer stopped fighting his own…
A lower math group feels like a verdict on your child. In our view, it says as much about the teaching. Four questions show what the…
A hood pulled up tight. Hands over the ears. A refusal to sit at one desk. Before anyone calls it defiance, check the room. A teacher…
