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Meet Sam, Madeleine, Oliver, and the rest of the kids at a school designed especially for children with LD. Watch students create a claymation movie that vividly illustrates their feelings about struggling to learn to read.

Ben may be dyslexic, but he’s also a published author! With the help of people who believed in him, he was able to overcome his difficulties and write the children’s book, My Year with Harry Potter.

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney is often asked how he overcame his dyslexia and ADHD in order to thrive in college. 

People with learning differences like dyslexia or ADHD hear multiple times a day versions of the question, “What’s your problem?” Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate Jonathan Mooney says that’s the wrong question to ask.

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 we need to move away from the remediation model; instead we need an accommodations model for all learners and thinkers.

Jonathan Mooney talks about the power of educators using a strength-based IEP planning model for students with learning differences like dyslexia and ADHD so that education is not just about what is wrong, but more importantly, what is right.

Jonathan Mooney says his 4’11” mother who swore like a truck driver and who sounded like Mini Mouse was always in his corner advocating for him, believing in him, fighting for him, and celebrating him.

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

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