Reframe your thinking about dyslexia with The Dyslexic Fiddler Crab: A Survival Guide for Students Watch the book trailer https://youtu.be/zDsPMaclLGE Order the book here  The Dyslexic Fiddler Crab: A Survival Guide for Students  Kindle version The Dyslexic Fiddler Crab: A Survival Guide for Students  Paperback version    All October proceeds will go towards scholarships for kids...Read More

Dr. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are ”learning disabilities” in each of the eight intelligences.  For Word Smart, there’s  ”dyslexia” or difficulty decoding the printed word.  For Music Smart there’s ”dysmusia,” when a person can’t sing on tune, has poor rhythm, and/or lacks a good musical memory. For Number/Logic Smart, there’s...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

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

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