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 adult, thirty-three children, and half a class period lost to passes and interruptions. That is the room a veteran teacher describes. It reframes the ten…
The bottle promising sharper focus for your child is selling a boost that does not exist. The useful question is quieter: is a developing brain short…
A child who shares snacks evenly at five will stall on long division five years later, and nothing about them broke. The written steps were taught…
Most parents prep for school with letters and numbers. Teachers say the children who struggle are missing something earlier: the spoken language and self-management that learning…
A high-school dropout taught himself number theory in a prison cell and published it. The point for your kitchen table: "not a math person" is a…
A pediatrician admitted that "monitor and wait" often arrives at the exact moment early help would matter most. The struggle does not need a label before…
A blank worksheet and a sighing child rarely mean defiance. More often the lesson outran the knowledge it needed to land on, and the brain checked…
That every-three-years IEP review hides a second step most schools never separate out, and it is the one that carries the leverage. Learn the difference between…
A landmark trial pitted three completely different therapies against each other for 465 struggling teenagers. None pulled ahead. So what helped? Not the brand on the…
Ten apologies a day, none for an actual mistake. The reflex looks like low self-esteem, but underneath sits something a 2014 psychiatry review placed at the…
