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

This video features six prominent individuals and one group who have succeeded in their areas of expertise while at the same time showing the signs and symptoms of dyslexia. The list includes: Anderson Cooper, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Dav Pilkey, Richard Branson, and the cybersecurity decoders of the Government Communication Headquarters in the U.K. In...Read More

Let’s face it, folks, there are a lot of kids out there who are read-i-phobic because books are full of words – those squiggly markings on the page that don’t make sense when you’re just starting out to read, and for some kids, don’t make sense even after spending quite a bit of time trying...Read More

In an earlier post, I pointed out how over the course of millions of years of human evolution, reading and literacy have occupied only the last 5000 years of human existence.  Consequently, our brains did not evolve any brain regions specifically for reading, but must make use of preexisting structures of the brain to make...Read More

When I was a kid I used to enjoy Mad Magazine, which I loved for many reasons, the irreverence, the hilarity, the satire, and more. One feature that I remember in particular involved cartoons that spelled out nonsense words as sound effects. For example:  ”Glomp!” “Flaaack!” ”Pffft!” ”Sproing!” (above – a page from Mad with...Read More