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Doing their own research, sharing family stories, and extensive testing allowed the Giardinas to understand Michael’s disabilities and learn how to help him learn and grow.

Henry Winkler never thought he would have a future making a living with words.

While at Brown University, Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney co-founded Eye to Eye, which started out as a public service project and is now a highly successful national mentoring movement that pairs kids who have learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD with college and high school mentors who have been similarly diagnosed.

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney says that we should be asking “What’s the school’s problem?” or “What’s the work environment’s problem?” in a world where normal is good and right and difference is deficient.

Effective instructional environments can prevent learning disabilities, especially in the early years.

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney talks about how we, as society, need to integrate neurodiversity into our broader conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney talks about how discovering WETA’s LDOnLine while in college was a revelation for him.

Reading disabilities are caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.

Mooney knows that encouragement and validation can be incredibly healing for a kid with learning differences.

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney says that his basic message to kids who learn differently is “normal sucks.”