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Learning Disabilities, The Gift or The Burden?
There are support groups, blogs, and websites that land on one side of a false choice about kids and school. Parents and some professionals tend to land on one side or the other. Are Dyslexia and...
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“I’ve Looked at Life from Both Sides Now” (Thanks Joni Mitchell)
Philip Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet proves that learning differently (dyslexia) can result in greatness. His writing is powerful. If you listen to his story you also hear about...
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The “I Can’t Help You” Podcast with Danny Conroy
Thanks for a great interview Danny Conroy, a leader in the Recovery field. Podcast with Sanford on LD and Mental Health
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How Art Therapy Can Help Children With Autism Communicate Better
Photo Credit:Donovan Valdivia Guest Article by Jane Sandwood Jane has many articles related to education and children and can be reached at janesandwood.writer@gmail.com About 1 in 59 children is...
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Universal Design Approach to Therapy
In treating teenagers and young adults with depression, anxiety, and addictions, knowing the intricacies of their Learning Profile is powerful. What are the easiest neurological pathways to accessing...
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Testing and Evaluating Struggling Kids; a Tool, Not the Goal.
“When working with children and teens who are struggling in school, a thorough psycho educational evaluation is so helpful and necessary. But it is a tool for understanding. The goal is understanding,...
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Adapting Best Practices of LD Instruction Can Improve Mental Health Treatment...
Since rates of anxiety, depression and self harm, including suicide and substance abuse are decidedly on the rise, there’s s striking need for clinicians, counselors and mentors to think differently....
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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...
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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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