Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate 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.

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Jonathan Mooney

Writer and Neurodiversity Advocate

Jonathan Mooney

Jonathan Mooney is an award-winning writer and Neurodiversity Advocate with dyslexia and ADHD. He’s also the founder of Eye-to-Eye, an award-winning national mentoring, advocacy, and movement building organization for students with learning and attention differences.

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Challenge that deficit model. There are educators around the country, who are doing strength based IEP planning; a document that acknowledges the area of growth as it pertains to academic skills, but also identifies the strengths as areas of growth as well.

So, an entire student’s education is not just about what’s wrong but about what’s right. 


For more information about learning disabilities, please visit LDOnLine.org. This video was made possible by a partnership between the National Education Association and WETA.

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