ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

For a Child With Learning Differences, Making Home a Safe Harbor

By Jessica Lahey — 2015

An entire family can benefit from adopting a growth mindset, and it can help everyone shift their thinking about the challenges one of them faces every day.

Read on parenting.blogs.nytimes.com

FindCenter Post-Image

The Perils of Giving Kids IQ Tests

According to the research of Stanford's Dr. Carol Dweck, both positive and negative labels, whether "gifted" or "seriously learning disabled," encourage a "fixed mindset," or the belief that nothing children do or think will change their intelligence.

Article
Jessica Lahey
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Mindset Matters: A New Narrative for Disability and Business in the 21st Century

The story of disability inclusion is incomplete. It is now time for C-level executives and management to take more of an active role and cultivate a new narrative to both augment and redefine disability in the larger context of business strategy.

Article
Jonathan Kaufman
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

5 Powerful Ways to Teach Growth Mindset to Children with Special Needs

Consider this – for children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, autism spectrum diagnoses, and other behavioral disorders, already innate negative thinking patterns have been reinforced by years and years of negative messages.

Article
Shawna Wingert
2022
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Companies Who Hire People with Disabilities Outperformed Their Peers

Hiring and supporting employees with disabilities isn’t just a matter of corporate social responsibility or public relations; it’s just good business.

Article
Jared Lindzon
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Leaders with Disabilities Have Instincts that Inspire Their Teams and Stimulate Productivity

These four instincts of an entrepreneur with a disability inspire teams and stimulate productivity.

Article
Nancy Solari
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Corporate Diversity Efforts Often Leave Out an Important Group: People with Disabilities

Businesses should make an extra effort to connect with workers with disabilities, a ready, capable, and sizable workforce 20 million people strong.

Article
Nancy Geenen
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Businesses Can Still Get Away with Paying Pennies to Employees with Disabilities

An 80-year-old law makes it legal to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage.

Article
Sara Luterman
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Boosting Productivity and Pride

When employers hire and nurture employees with disabilities, everyone benefits, research finds.

Article
Tori DeAngelis
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Embracing Boredom to Enhance Problem-Solving

Have you ever been in a “fight or flight” mode when faced with an unexpected disability-related problem? Maybe you have arrived somewhere only to notice the building is not accessible, so you have to quickly change your plans.

Article
Lauren Presutti
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Bring Your Whole Self to Work! Hiding Disability at Work Is Damaging to Productivity

When disability isn’t disclosed, we create an invisible layer of additional work for the individual which will affect their productivity.

Article
Nancy Doyle
2019
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Family Acceptance