I’m producing a series of videos to promote my new book The Power of Neurodiversity:  Unleashing the Advantages of Your Neurodivergent Brain.  This is the second video: ” The Culture of Flowers.”  I begin the book with this story, telling about people waking up one morning and finding everyone has been changed into a flower. ...Read More

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

ADHD has three negative words in the label: ”deficit” ”hyperactivity” and ”disorder.” And yet recent research suggests that this form of neurological diversity actually has more assets in it than deficits. Why is there such an emphasis on what’s wrong in the ADHD field?  Why don’t we know more about the strengths of children, teens,...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 just made a video which is now on You Tube that features the 4th in a series of videos I’ve been doing on my novel titled Childless.  Childless is about a childless child psychologist who tries to foil a U.S. government plot to have childhood declared as a medical disorder and removed from the...Read More