In my 20th book, a novel entitled Childless, I tell the story about a childless child psychologist who tries to foil a U.S government plot to declare childhood as a medical disorder and then eliminate it from the human genome.  The novel is a darkly comedic satire about something very serious that is going on in...Read More

In 2001 I began teaching a course on neurodiversity for the Bridges Graduate School for Cognitive Diversity in Education entitled Introduction to Neurodiversity.  As part of the course, I prepared ten You Tube presentations as a means of delivering my lectures.  I’m making these videos available now for the benefit of the wider community of...Read More

Millions of parents around the U.S. are wringing their hands and racking their brains about what to do with their kids being at home from school until the coronavirus curve flattens out.  For many, the idea of losing crucial academic skills is keen, and parents fear that their kids will fall behind in their studies...Read More

I received an email last week from someone who said his school had required him to buy a book that claimed Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences was a myth.  Naturally, as someone who has written and taught about this theory for the past thirty-four years, I was disturbed by this revelation.  To help set...Read More

Concerned about your child’s behavior at school?  Think he might have ADHD?  Looking for help from the school’s special education program?  A new study reveals that when two groups of primary school children are matched in terms of identical behavioral issues, but one group is diagnosed with ADHD and the other is not, the kids...Read More