I’m creating a series of videos to introduce my new book The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain (Completely Revised and Updated Second Edition). In this video, #5 in this series, I talked about positive niche construction or the creation of favorable environmental settings within which a neurodivergent person can...Read More

This video (and accompanying transcript below) looks at six ecological factors contributing to a diagnosis of ADHD including:     ultra-processed food, nature deficit disorder, the decline of rough-and-tumble play, the lack of adequate sunshine, the toxic effects of environmental contaminants, and inadequate sleep. It recommends that we not turn a blind eye to these...Read More

In 2021-2022, I taught a class for the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education.  and created videos from the lectures I gave.  This video is #4 in the 10 video series for the course entitled Introduction to Neurodiversity. The video describes a concept that I’ve adapted from evolutionary biology called niche construction, which...Read More

When I was a third grader at Clara Barton Elementary School in Fargo, North Dakota, my principal Miss Minnis held an assembly where she showed us home movies of her summer trip to Australia.  I was amazed at the existence of such a large a country so far away from the U.S.  We learned the...Read More

After this pandemic is over with (or at least sufficiently in the background of American life to warrant little comment), plan to go into a classroom and ask yourself, does this classroom have life?” That’s the key test of whether there’s any real learning going on. There could be fake learning going on, to be...Read More