What is Executive Dysfunction?
Executive dysfunction is a behavioral symptom that disrupts a person’s ability to manage their own thoughts, emotions and actions. It’s most common with certain mental health conditions, especially addictions, behavioral disorders, brain development disorders and mood disorders. Read more >>
Tips for Teaching Students with Learning Differences
This reference sheet identifies some of the signs of learning differences and provides strategies you can use to help students reach their full potential. Read more >>
The Problem with Overcoming: Learning to Value Your Differences
People with learning disabilities and mental health challenges are often implicitly or explicitly taught to overcome their differences. Try harder, push through, fix and succeed. These messages of normalization can lead to shame, a desire to hide our true selves, Read more >>
The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
From ADHD and dyslexia to autism, the number of diagnosis categories listed by the American Psychiatric Association has tripled in the last fifty years. With so many people affected, it is time to revisit our perceptions of people with disabilities. Read more >>
Every Student Matters: Cultivating Belonging in the Classroom
Belonging in the classroom means ensuring that all students feel welcomed, comfortable, and part of the school family. Elementary school educator Michael Dunlea teaches in an inclusion classroom where many students have learning differences that can pose a challenge to Read more >>
Book: Normal Sucks—How to Live, Learn, and Thrive, Outside the Lines
In his book Normal Sucks, Jonathan Mooney, a neurodiverse writer, advocate, and father, offers the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeed. Read more >>
Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide use their backgrounds in neurology and education to debunk the standard deficit-based approach to dyslexia. People typically define “dyslexia” as a reading and spelling disorder. Read more >>
Learning Differences & Me: Knowing My Strengths and Challenges
It’s important to know what your strengths are so you can use them in ways that help you, your friends and family at school and home. Read more >>
Learning Differences & Me: My Perfect Day
It’s important children with learning differences to take time to recognize and celebrate their strengths. Read more >>
ADHD is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder among U.S. children and adolescents, leading to differences in attention, impulsivity, energy and behavior. All of this can be disruptive to a child’s school and learning experience as well as their social-emotional wellbeing. Read more >>
