Articles, education news, infographics and a podcast for parents of children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and ADHD. Written parent-to-parent, grounded in neuroscience.
A school refused a first grader's dyslexia evaluation because he was testing too high. The 2025 definition of dyslexia retired that idea. Parents hold more levers…
A supplement pitch names a missing brain chemical and sells the refill. Real deficiencies are found by a doctor, not a checklist. Four questions separate a…
A trainer with 17 years inside the dyslexia world watched employers go from ticking a legal box to asking for more neurodivergent hires. Her father, an…
Middle school teachers describe half a class stuck on basic math facts. Learning differences alone explain nowhere near that many. The difference is how facts get…
An autistic YouTuber explains from the inside why eye contact feels invasive, why rocking means focus, and why sarcasm never lands. The social rules other kids…
Flashcards keep failing for a reason nobody names at the school meeting: math facts run on word retrieval. When reading is a fight, 7 times 8…
A child who loses hours is not ignoring the clock on purpose. Surgeons lose time in a crisis too, and hospitals fixed it with an outside…
A child who asks the teacher to show the steps is asking for one of the most studied moves in teaching. Here is why discovery lessons…
A weekly fluency score tells you in one number whether your child's reading help is working. Here is what to ask the school for, the growth…
Four advocates describe what a holistic approach to a reading struggle actually looks like. Every one of them lands on the same variable, and it is…
