Articles, education news, infographics and a podcast for parents of children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and ADHD. Written parent-to-parent, grounded in neuroscience.
An expert organizer spent two days rearranging a home built around focus struggles, and the biggest swap was not tidiness. It was reach. The easiest, most…
Primitive reflexes rehearse in utero from about week 20, and labor is meant to be their trigger. A baby born early skips part of that. Seven…
One harsh comment about your reading outlasts a hundred kind ones, and there is a name for why. The brain logs criticism faster and holds it…
Read the success letters closely and the turning point is never the diagnosis itself. It is the moment a capable kid stops believing they were the…
Walk into the IEP meeting knowing this: federal law seats you as an equal member of the team, the one expert on your own child. Most…
Broken streaks get blamed on weak willpower. The likelier culprit is a brain that discounts the future, steeply and by design. Swap grit for the right…
Run a film crew through a storm, then stall at your own front door: the gap between a capable mind and a stuck one is not…
Slow reading, dodged read-alouds, decent grades, and a child working twice as hard in secret. Stealth dyslexia hides in the bright kid who looks fine, and…
One dismissive sentence from a teacher taught a future math department head to stop asking questions. What rebuilt her curiosity happened at home, and it points…
A bedtime story corrected by a six-year-old made one mother stop reading the words altogether. What she did instead points to something the reading science settled…
