I’m putting together a series of neurodiversity videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, I explore a major theme in the book that our society constructs mental health diagnoses largely to uphold sacrosanct social values. I...Read More

As part of my promotion of my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition), I’m sharing neurodiversity videos that I’ve done in the  past.  This video is from a virtual keynote that I did for an educational group in Hong Kong in 2023. ...Read More

This is the third video in my ”Neurodiversity” series that features my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition).  In this video I talk about the metaphors we use to describe the brain.  I take issue with the way in which adults explain...Read More

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