Dyslexia Got a Definition Update — Why Can’t Apraxia?
A quiet earthquake just happened in the world of learning disabilities — and most people missed it. The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) updated its definition of dyslexia for the first time in more than 20 years. The change seems subtle on the surface, but its implications are enormous. Education Week recently reported on this shift […]
What Your Speech Therapist and School Won’t Tell You — And What I Wish I Knew 15 Years Ago
If I could sit across from you right now — you, the parent who loves a child who doesn’t speak — I would start with this: You’re not imagining things. Your child understands far more than anyone has ever acknowledged. And the systems you’ve been told to trust have been failing you both. I wish […]
IDEA at 50: The Promise, the Progress, and the Alarming Slide Backward
Fifty years ago, the United States did something rare: it made a moral commitment to children that actually meant something. When Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act on November 29, 1975 — the law that later became IDEA — it drew a line in the sand: Before IDEA, conditions weren’t just inadequate […]
How Confirmation Bias Hijacks Our Thinking — And What We Can Actually Do About It
There’s a truth I keep coming back to, one that’s uncomfortable to admit and even harder to escape: I am not immune to confirmation bias. None of us are. It’s not just a flaw in “other people,” or the ones we disagree with, or the caricatures that show up in our feeds. It’s a human […]