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How disabled is disabled enough?
I have been physically disabled since I was born. Those friends that are reading this and have known me my whole life might say, “whaaa?”. I sure didn’t act disabled when I was a child. I skied every weekend in …
A Career on Hold
I am 37, and I just got my K-6 teaching certificate in the state of North Carolina. A lot of people wonder why I am just starting out More...
What a difference the {right} teacher makes.
It's no secret this has been the worst school year for Luke. The worst. Nope, I take that back. The second worst. I think Kindergarten still holds the More...
Happy Mama Conference & Retreat: Be surrounded by moms who understand your parenting experience
Are you a stressed-out, overwhelmed, overworked, tired and under-nurtured mother of a child with ADHD, ADD, OCD, SPD, PBD, FASD, Autism, PDD, or any number of other brain-based More...
Classroom Strategies Series from My Attention Coach: #4 Involve the Student
Self-Advocating Skills I know that advocating is very familiar to parents of students with ADHD and other challenges around learning. I also encourage teachers, school social workers and school More...
The 4 -ates of Effective Student Advocacy: Guest Post by Robert Tudisco
(This article first appeared in ATTENTION Magazine August 2007.) In advocating for the educational rights of children, I have found that, legal representation is not always necessary in the More...
in the last two years
This was the picture of Luke I first used on this blog. In the last two years, I've gone from ADHD-Idiot to ADHD-Literate. In the last two years, I've More...
