I’m producing a series of videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain.  This is the second video: ” The Culture of Flowers.”  I begin the book with this story, telling about people waking up one morning and finding everyone has been changed into a flower. ...Read More

Hey Folks!  I just did an hour-long podcast for Hapara, a classroom management software company, focusing on my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students.  Just click the arrow and watch the hour-long video.  There’s also a written transcript available.  Enjoy!  See also my 12-part video series...Read More

Fifteen years ago, I wrote The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain.  At the time, few people knew the term neurodiversity, and the sales of the book were slow.  However, in the past several years, neurodiversity has emerged from obscurity to become a word that seems to be on everybody’s...Read More

We all know that Trump hates diversity. On March 18 2025 President Trump announced: “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government.”  According to the New York Times, Trump has ordered the removal of the following words from public-facing websites, or ordered the elimination of other materials (including school...Read More

I just had a double-whammy this week.  I attended a community play of George Orwell’s 1984 (where an authority tries to convince a captive that the four fingers he’s holding out represent five fingers), and watched the movie The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski (where Oscar-winner Adrian Brody frantically escapes one Nazi after another in...Read More