Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney says the words “disability” and “disorder” in diagnoses like learning disability and ADHD pathologize differences.
Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney says that instead of people with learning differences being asked some variation on “What’s your problem?” multiple times a day, people should be asking, “What’s the school’s problem, the work place environment’s problem, the problem with a culture where normal is good and right and difference is deficient?”
Dr. Pedro Noguera discusses a new book he co-wrote, Schooling for Resilience, which examines a number of schools serving Black and Latino boys and what they are doing to support student success.
With more than 22 years as a writer and neurodiversity advocate under his belt, Jonathan Mooney talks about the core values of his work, from reframing “the problem”—not the person with learning differences; rather the way the differences are treated—to the shift from remediation to universal design with accommodations for all learners.
Dr. Guinevere Eden explains why it is important for students with dyslexia to know what dyslexia is, what it means for them, and that many people do not understand dyslexia.
