Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney talks about how society needs to move away from the moralization of atypical brains and bodies to a more science-based understanding of what drives people’s challenges.
While at Brown University, Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney co-founded Eye to Eye, which started out as a public service project and is now a highly successful national mentoring movement that pairs kids who have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD with college and high school mentors who have been similarly diagnosed.
In this video from Understood, Guinevere Eden, PhD, explains which parts of our brain we use when we read, how our brains change when we learn to read, and the difference that a successful dyslexia intervention can make in brain function.
In this webinar, AT Specialists Diana Petschauer and Kelsey Hall Dyslexia demonstrated AT tools to support students who experience dyslexia with regard to developing goals and choosing appropriate accommodations as part of student’s’ individualized education plans (IEPs); and discussed interventions designed to close achievement gaps by providing well-researched programming that is explicit, systematic, and multisensory in nature, with plenty of opportunities for practice.
Language and literacy expert Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan says that it’s important to find out early if your child is having difficulty with letters and sounds.
