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

This is video #9 in my 10-video series Introduction to Neurodiversity, based on a course I taught at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education. In this video I highlight the gifts, talents, and abilities of individuals who have social and emotional disorders such as OCD, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. These positive traits include...Read More

I recently did an interview on my book The Power of Neurodiversity, with Dr. Nelly Nguyen, founder of Applied Life, ”a network of coaches, scientists, educators, business consultants, and above all diverse human beings who think outside the box and embrace curiosity, diversity, and inclusiveness.”  During the interview, we touched on many different topics related...Read More

I’m so excited that my first novel came out this week!  It’s called Childless, and tells the story of a childless child psychologist named Harvey Sumner who tries to foil a U.S. government plot to remove childhood from the human genome.  That’s right!  No more childhood!  In the future, through genetic engineering, a person will...Read More

What is neurodiversity?  Who is really normal?  How do we address the strengths of those who’ve been labeled with ADHD, dyslexia or other ”disabilities”?  These questions get addressed in a new Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio One program.  Entitled: ”The Myth of Normal,” it aired  Part 1 on April 29, 2022 and Part 2 on May...Read More