Podcast 0100, Season 6, Episode 10; 18 April 2023 Recording Number 100! Of course, it’s about education because that’s what dominates my life. Specifically, this is a reflection on reaching the end of our homeschooling experience. Transcript Welcome to Perspectives on Neurodiversity, a podcast dedicated to challenging myths and assumptions…
Tag: dyslexia
It’s not fair to Anne, but I am tired of working with her. That exhaustion makes me feel guilty. When I get frustrated with her academic struggles, I need to remind myself that she’s trying her best. The ADHD, dyslexia, and working memory deficiency don’t merely add up to a…
Anne is now nine, which for our schools would be the age for entering fourth grade. Instead, we’re back to homeschooling her and trying to identify why she struggles so much with academic tasks. My cousin has a master’s degree in speech and language pathology (SPL) and helped guide us…
The back-to-school experiment lasted four days for the little one. By Thursday of the first week, it was clear that this wasn’t a good experience for her. I’m still in the processing stage. I’m the one who advocated for her return to school. I wanted to believe she would have…
Podcast Episode 0075, Season 5, Episode 6; 2 November 2021 Literacy Problem Solver From the Press Kit: Lois Letchford’s dyslexia came to light at the age of 39, when she faced teaching her seven-year-old non-reading son, Nicholas. Examining her reading failure caused her to adapt and change lessons for her…