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10 Things Faculty Need to Understand About Autism

By Maggie Coughlin — 2021

Maggie Coughlin shares some lessons she’s learned in understanding her own autism and how to work with her neurodiversity and that of the students she teaches.

Read on www.insidehighered.com

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Neurodiversity and Learning Disabilities: Strategies and Tools

This video introduces the idea of neurodiversity and applies it to students with learning disabilities.

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2012
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Educating a Neurodiverse World | Brian Kinghorn | TEDxTeachersCollege

What kind of world would we have if we all realized what kind of mind we had and began appreciating it? What if we did the same for others? In this talk, Brian Kinghorn champions the cause of Neurodiversity, arguing that there is not just one “standard-issue” brain.

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Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties

In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks.

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To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled: Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD, ASD, and More

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled is one of the most popular resources available on identifying and meeting the needs of twice-exceptional students.

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Helping Your Child with Language-Based Learning Disabilities: Strategies to Succeed in School and Life with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, ADHD, and Processing Disorders

Based in cutting-edge research in neuroscience, education, and the principles of attachment-based teaching, this important guide for parents offers tools and practices to help children transcend language-based learning difficulties, do better in school, and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

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Dr. Edward Hallowell on ADHD: A Ferrari in Your Brain

Child Mind Institute Presents: The Adam Jeffrey Katz Memorial Lecture—An expert panel featuring Dr. Gail Saltz, Dr. F. Xavier Castellanos, Dr. Rachel Klein, and Dr. Edward Hallowell

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Answers to Distraction

The bestselling authors of Driven to Distraction respond to the most frequently asked questions about Attention Deficit Disorder. After decades of being unfairly diagnosed, children and adults with attention deficit disorder are now recognized as having a common and treatable neurological condition.

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Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
2010
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Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism

The future of our society depends on our gifted children--the population in which we'll find our next Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, or Virginia Woolf.

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The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism (5th Edition: Revised & Expanded)

In this updated and expanded fifth edition, The Way I See It, Dr. Temple Grandin gets to the REAL issues of autism—the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.

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