My mother was asking me this week how we manage to do homeschooling, with all the other activities we do. One of the secrets to this feat is realizing that kids are learning no matter whether they are formally studying (e.g. reading a textbook and… Read more
Image by Ian Ruotsala via Flickr Both in education and in looking for the best care of special needs kids, it is important to learn how to tell the difference between sound evidence and – well, baloney. It is especially important for us to… Read more
Early in my eldest daughter’s primary school education we went to a parent-teacher evening and her classroom teacher was passing out this poem: Unity I dreamed I stood in a studio And watched two sculptors there, The clay they used was a young… Read more
I actually like to visit my dentist, which if you knew how terrified I was of all things related to dentistry as a child, is a statement that may well leave you picking your jaw up off the floor. One of the reasons I like my dentist is that she… Read more
If your introduction to autism came from Dustin Hoffman’s groundbreaking performance in the 1988 film Rainman, you’ll catch the play on words. This young man has autism, and he runs to raise money to help raise awareness and make the world a better… Read more
