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Are Children and Teens with Learning Disabilities Potential Geniuses, or...
Senators, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize Winners have all been people with Dyslexia. So are kids with Learning Differences budding geniuses and leaders, or are they victims of...
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Learning Differences and Oppression
The Many Faces of Educational and Racial Oppression The racialized reality black students experience every day in American schools. Even with the same behaviors as white children, “black boys are...
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“Nature, meet Nurture.” Attachment and Autism
Photo Credit: Nature vs. Nurture/Philosophy Talk In general, infants with autism spectrum have eye gazes that focus more on objects than faces. And that impacts the mechanisms of attunement between...
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The Glance of Mercy
My friend Dr.Brad Reedy describes good therapy or a good therapist as a place where you get to find yourself, and as part of that process, as the messy parts of you come into view, you find that your...
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Working Together + Personal Grit= Success for Children and Struggling Teens
In this excerpt from my new book ‘A Light Within My Dyslexia’ Bear and Turtle counsel a distraught Beaver about individual “Core Gifts,” following one’s dreams, and the power of collaboration and...
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Childhood Anxiety: The Prison of Your Mind and the Way Through
Anxious student at Chrysalis School in Montana being supported by staff and peers as she works her way up and through her fears and self-limiting beliefs. As we’ve discussed before, the most current...
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Executive Functions Are Not Just Important for School Tasks
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Exploring Life and Mental Health aspects of ADHD
Sanford Shapiro – Exploring the facts and the myths around ADD and ADHD. Another engaging conversation with Andrew Taylor from Octagon Mentoring. Andrew Taylor is a young adult mentoring leader,...
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Learning Disabilities, Wounds in Our Schools.
Spencer Platt/Getty Images In this article from The Hill.com, important lessons about the wounding of our children and teens with LD are confronted, including the additional disparities for children...
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Explaining Learning Disabilities to Children
I’m often asked how to talk to children about their learning profile. When kids get diagnosed with a learning disability as a result of a good evaluation, parents often struggle with what to say. In...
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Reading Out-loud When Dyslexic
Illustration by Sean Geddes, Copyright, all rights reserved Being asked to read out loud in class, especially unexpectedly, can cause fear and anxiety among our kids. It triggers stress and can...
View ArticleTwice Exceptional Children and Teens: Implications for Mental Health and...
Gifted students who also have specific learning disabilities are at significant risk for frustration and being mis-educated. Dr. Brad Reedy sand I explore the risks for mental health problems and what...
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