Education
The Achievement Gap Isn’t About Ability. It’s About Access.
Two children of equal ability, two different school buildings, one reading specialist between them. A year later their scores split apart, and the difference gets blamed…
The Learning Success blog
Plain-language help for brilliant, struggling learners.
Articles, education news, infographics and a podcast for parents of children with dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and ADHD. Written parent-to-parent, grounded in neuroscience.
This week
The newest article, news story and infographicRecent articles
Sensory Processing Disorder
The Wiggling, Humming, Chewing Child Is Trying to Focus, Not Misbehave
Most classrooms hand out a movement break as the reward for finishing work. For a restless child, that order is backwards: the movement is what makes…
Adult ADHD
My Child’s ADHD Came With Dyslexia. Where Do I Start?
Extra time sounds like help. Doing six times the work by Friday is not. When your child's ADHD arrives with a reading or math struggle, the…
assistive technology
A Bone Conduction Headset Trains Listening, Not Reading
When one product promises to fix speech, focus, reading, memory, and confidence together, breadth is the warning, not the selling point. Hearing your own voice clearly…
Education
The Real Head Start in Math Comes Before the First Written Number
Drilling written numbers early feels like a head start. The preschools with the strongest math results do the opposite: no symbols at all, deep number sense…
Adult ADHD
Steadier Energy With ADHD Starts With Structure, Not More Effort
Exhaustion with focus struggles rarely comes from doing too little. People who struggle to focus usually work harder than everyone around them, then lose the fuel…
Executive Function
3 Questions to Ask Before You Believe Your Child’s ‘Slow Processing’ Score
A single number on an evaluation gets read as a verdict on the whole child. It rarely is. That score measured how fast your child reads…
Mathematics
Grow the Number Sense That Lets Your Child See ‘How Many’ Without Counting
Seeing 'how many' at a glance, before counting starts, is a real early-math skill called subitizing. The popular version oversells it as a brain-boosting superpower. The…
Autism
Your Neurodivergent Child Isn’t Defiant. They’re Trying to Tell You Something.
Headstrong. Stubborn. Oppositional. The words come fast for a child who resists everything. But one parent found the behavior was information, not a character flaw, and…
adult autism
The Hidden Effort When an Autistic Child Learns to Blend In
An autistic young man explains his loneliness in a way most advice gets backwards. It was not a missing social skill. It was a world that…
