In this video, I speak about the loneliness that many people with dyslexia can feel, especially if their reading difficulty hasn’t been identified and they’re not receiving any help or support for it. I discuss the ”masking” that can occur as a result, as a way to hide one’s dyslexia. At such times, it’s important...Read More

In this video (#29 in my series introducing my new book The Power of Neurodiversity), I examine how people with dyslexia can modify text using a word processor such as Microsoft Word to make it easier to read. Most word processing programs have many features that we don’t take full advantage of that could make...Read More

The term ”dyslexia”  simply means ”trouble with words” in Latin.  But when we speak of dyslexics, we’re talking about individuals who primarily have difficulty decoding words, thus making the act of reading (and writing) an onerous task, unless and until they receive intensive instruction in phonemic awareness and other literacy skills.  However, while the ”deficit” is...Read More

This is video #5 of my 10-video series Introduction to Neurodiversity, a course I taught in 2021-2022 at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education. In this video I discuss the gifts of dyslexia, including strong visual-spatial reasoning, three-dimensional thinking, entrepreneurial vision, and holistic perception. I look at famous people with dyslexia, how the...Read More

I was working on my Word Press website the other day and I wanted to paste in a complex object (I forget what it was), but was uncertain about how to proceed.  I knew the code for the object, and I clicked over to the ”text” version of the page where all the coding resides,...Read More