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Organizing the Environment for Attention Challenges After spending my life immersed in education, I find it difficult to turn my back on...

Dr. Amy Campbell, counselor at the Rawson Saunders School for Dyslexia, shares powerful ideas for teaching gratitude and appreciation....

For the second time in two years, my husband and I find ourselves “displaced” for the holidays. We currently live in a twenty-year old...

Once again, we find ourselves immersed in a traditional season of abundance. To prepare for our Thanksgiving feasts, we pushed clattering...

Not a single person avoids messing up from time to time. Part of our human condition involves making mistakes. We forget, we get tired,...

Years ago, I worked with a young boy whose labels included gifted and talented, learning disabled, and ADHD with hyperactivity. One...

Ph.D Party and Southern Comfort When my first husband, David was earning his Ph. D, he frequently asked me to type his handwritten papers...

How drastically one’s life can change in an unexpected moment! Two years, almost to the day after our first Halloween flood, we watched...

Dysgraphia, the disability that creates barriers to writing letters and numbers, does not need to destroy a child’s ability to succeed in...