“It’s Just a Difference, Not a Disadvantage”I would sit in class, and try my best to pay attention. I just couldn’t’ remember everything that was taught, and I was starting to have a tough time understanding instructions, or my assignments. I studied harder and harder and nothing changed. I discovered I had a learning difference.. There are thousands of kids out there who are just like me. With this book, I will show how I used ‘Power Words’ and the 7 Steps that helped me increase my confidence and self-esteem. I embrace my 'Gift of Difference'.Jordan Ashley Greene is a 12 year old 6th grade student who loves public speaking, playing basketball, running track, and drawing.ription goes here

by Jordan Toma

Jordan Toma is A Motivational Speaker, Financial Advisor and a real estate investor "But it hasn't always been this easy" My life has been a roller-coaster with this "Learning Disability" and I let it control my confidence and outlook on life for the first 18 years. I let it define me - it became a permanent label stuck to my shirt every day. I will give you an idea of what I mean…

Have Anxiety (So What?) educates the reader about surefire ways to take control, and includes personal stories about those who have learned to better manage their anxiety and succeed at self-improvement. The book is a testament to how authentic storytelling combined with scholarly research comes together to encourage the reader to take back the power from their anxiety once and for all!

Embark on an unforgettable journey with Joy and Leo as they discover a hidden strength within themselves, in a world where learning disabilities create challenges for them in the classroom.

Leo’s wandering mind leads him on unexpected adventures, while Joy’s struggles with anxiety and self-doubt test her resilience. As they confront the challenges of their learning differences, they realize that being different is a gift, not a hindrance. Join them as they navigate the ups and downs of school life, finding their inner strength, and embracing the power of their Bright Brains.

Through the pages of this inspiring story, readers of all ages will find inspiration, courage, and their own Bright Brains.

Simon struggles to complete simple tasks at home and school, leading everyone in his world to feel upset and annoyed. Inevitably, Simon’s frustration reaches a boiling point and he makes a huge mistake in front of everyone! How will Simon ever recover? Why can’t he just do better? In the end, readers will realize that Simon, like everyone, is doing the best he can, and with a little support, the world can become a better place for all.

"A Different Lens" is:

by Gwendolyn Davis-Lloyd

"The Invisible Disability" by Gwendolyn Davis-Loyd is an impactful short story creatively mirroring Davis-Loyd's unique experience with her daughter's learning disability. "The Invisible Disability" was birthed from Gwendolyn's desire to empower children to walk in strength, despite their disability, drawing attention to the fact that being different does not equate to an inability to grow and succeed in and out of the classroom. Davis-Loyd has acquired a heightened sense of understanding from her daughter, Jewell, and as they have journeyed through Jewell's disability to ultimately reach a place of awareness, confidence, and undeniable success.

Doctor Dyslexia Dude is a compelling story of an African-American boy who is also a colorful superhero with dyslexia.

The capped character is autobiographically based on the painful, early life experiences of Dr. Shawn Anthony Robinson. Robinson and his co-author, Mrs Inshirah Robinson RN, are parents who say their goal is to empower students in Special Education to stay encouraged and know they too can achieve greatness!

Overall, Dr Dyslexia Dude is an exciting, colorful, often humorous and relevant source of hope and inspiration for kids, parents, and teachers.

An Inspiring Guide for Parents of Children with Learning Disabilities by David Flink

An innovative, comprehensive guide—the first of its kind—to help parents understand and accept learning disabilities in their children, offering tips and strategies for successfully advocating on their behalf and helping them become their own best advocates.

Written by an adult with ADHD for adults with ADHD, Extra Focus provides the compassionate understanding and practical strategies you need to stop struggling and start thriving.

Jesse J. Anderson draws from his personal journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult to offer encouragement, motivation, and strategies tailored for ADHD brains.

Actress and activist Holly Robinson Peete pairs with her twins in this narrative about the challenges and triumphs of being a teen who has autism and the effects on family, school, friends, and life.

Being a teen is hard enough. But when you have autism--or when your brother or sister is struggling with the condition--life can be challenging. It's one thing when you're a kid in grade school, and a playdate goes south due to autism in a family. Or when you're a little kid, and a vacation or holiday turns less-than-happy because of an autistic family member. But being a teen with autism can get pretty hairy--especially when you're up against dating, parties, sports, body changes, school, and other kids who just don't 'get' you. In this powerful book, teenagers Ryan Elizabeth Peete and her twin brother, Rodney, who has autism, share their up-close-and-personal experiences on what it means to be a teen living with autism. SAME BUT DIFFERENT, explores the funny, painful, and unexpected aspects of teen autism, while daring to address issues nobody talks about. SAME BUT DIFFERENT underscores tolerance, love, and the understanding that everybody's unique drumbeat is worth dancing to.

A story to help understanding a neurodivergent brain.

Created and inspired by my daughters ADHD diagnosis, I wanted to gift her a book that help explained her brain's processes and needs. No big words or acronyms that result in 'what does that mean' and bring the child out of the story.

"Brains are just like cars, they all drive round and round a track, picking up information and then bringing it back. Some brains are Race Cars that like to drive extra fast. Sometimes though, they forget to sop and fully complete a task.'

But driving cars fast all the time and not servicing or maintaining them leads to overheating and burnout.

We can apply that same logic to our brains.

I am so proud of this book, and sharing with friends I have been told the same principles talked about in this book apply to their children who are on the spectrum.

Throughout my life I have been told directly and indirectly that dyslexia is found in particular people... [In fact] dyslexia can be found in someone like me. It isn't just 'okay' but something to be proud of. This book has been written because I want people to know that dyslexia can be found in people of every colour, creed, or circumstance.

In this book, rising star entrepreneur Onyinye Udokporo shares her story of growing up dyslexic in a society where neurodivergence was always presented as a white male issue.

Onyinye discusses her experience of being diagnosed at 11 years old, starting a business the following year, gaining a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school and going on to complete two degrees by the age of 22, while also being honest about the difficulties she faced throughout including with bullying and anxiety. She shares the tips she picked up over the years for thriving with dyslexia and the strategies she used to overcome her difficulties in reading and writing well, staying organised and speaking with confidence.

Dyslexic people think differently. This different way of thinking makes us ‘Xtraordinarily’ good at certain things. This book will help you discover the seven different types of ‘Xtraordinary’ People and their ‘superpowers’… and discover what yours are too!

Written by Kate Griggs, the founder of Made By Dyslexia, a global charity that works to help everyone understand the ‘Xtraordinary’ strengths dyslexia gives us.

How can you empower students with invisible disabilities to manage their challenges, accept and advocate for themselves, and reach their goals and dreams? This guidebook has inspiring and informative answers. Told with the authentic voices of adults with hidden disabilities, this encouraging, eye-opening book will help you guide students on the Path to Disability Pride and support their success in the classroom and community. Personal stories blend with powerful strategies as the authors share reflections on their experience with disability—and offer up practical teaching tips and interventions based on the latest research. An essential resource for educators, families, and self-advocates, this book will help students with non-visible disabilities dare to dream big and unlock their full potential.

Stories of love, awareness, and acceptance by Tomika Morales

In this first-of-its-kind compilation, autistics, influencers, parents, and siblings dare to unite and amplify their voices as one community. Each author contributes an honest, raw account of a life changed by autism. Their adversity is their advantage. They find healing through resilience and acceptance. With vulnerability, they share how love powers transformation.

In From Disability to Possibility, Patrick Schwarz made a passionate and compelling argument for the inclusive classroom. From Possibility to Success takes Patrick’s case to the next level by providing teachers with powerful new tools to make inclusive education work, along with guidelines for incorporating them into classroom practice.

With the goal of building lifelong skills, Patrick offers templates and authentic forms that help you plan lessons and units while at the same time embracing students’ interests and passions, working toward students’ dreams, promoting leadership, self-advocacy, self-determination, and membership in both school and the community. With an explicit overview of each tool, a rationale for using them, and compelling stories of how they have helped real students in real classrooms, Patrick empowers educators to combine the science and art of teaching all learners. Try them out and discover hope, direction, and inspiration to turn possibility into success.

Raja Marhaba’s journey in special education may be compared to David and Goliath as she fought the second largest school district in the nation to obtain badly needed services and placements for both her sons. The district took a middle-class mom to 9th Circuit Federal Court in an effort to intimidate and drain all financial resources so that she would give up. Yet, Raja Marhaba, stood tall exhausting all resources available to her and sacrificing her marriage, lifestyle and business in order to provide both her sons the Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

This was their right according to the Individual Disability Education Act (IDEA), which the district hired high priced attorneys in an effort to prevent her sons from receiving services and proper educational placement. These services played a significant role in aiding both sons to access grade level curriculum and obtain success in the school environment.

The book “Unstoppable” does not only tell Raja Marhaba’s story, but is a resource as a “living document” parents can continuously refer to when advocating for their own special needs children. Let this book change the conversation with our national broken special education system by empowering parents, and giving a voice to the children!

Want to understand all there is to know about dyslexia? Read the definitive guide, THIS is dyslexia. It’s perfect for parents, teachers, employers and anyone who is Made By Dyslexia.

This is Dyslexia redefines and reshapes what it means to be dyslexic. It explores how it has shaped our past and how harnessing its powers and strengths is vital to our future.

If you’re a parent of a student with a disability who has an IEP or 504 or you’re a professional who works with them, you probably know the K-12 landscape well. But you may have questions about what happens for these students when they get to college, where the shifts in prevailing laws result in a disability accommodation system that works differently, the academic demands increase, and some of the supports students have used in high school won’t be available.

In this essential guide, college learning disabilities specialist Elizabeth C. Hamblet builds a foundation of knowledge step-by-step and answers your urgent questions.

In 7 Steps to College Success, you’ll learn how:

·students access accommodations, and which ones commonly are and aren’t approved

·parents and professionals can help students develop the key personal and academic skills needed for self-management at college

·students can find colleges that are a good fit in all of the important ways and what admissions directors want them to know about the application process

This third edition has been greatly revised to make it equally helpful to parents and professionals. It includes updated research and interviews, and new in this edition is corrections to common myths readers may have heard.

A seasoned expert and veteran parent, Chris Zeigler Dendy looks at key areas (academics, dating, driving, socializing, and greater independence) that make adolescence potentially more difficult for kids with ADD, ADHD, or executive function deficits. This new edition is expanded and refreshed with indispensable information on the latest DSM-5 diagnostic criteria, research, education strategies and laws, and technology use. The book also offers a thorough explanation of executive function deficits and their impact on teens' ability to focus, prioritize, and plan. The author shows how to support and advocate for teens using a combination of medications, behavior and academic interventions and accommodations, ADHD education, and exercise. Armed with the book's extensive information and strategies, parents, educators, and therapists can be proactive, working together with teens to build resilience and a hopeful future.

Authors Chris Dendy and Ruth Hughes are ADHD experts and parents of adult sons who are now successfully established in their careers. They offer parents guidance and strategies to help their preteens and teens develop the key life skills necessary for the adult world and identify potential vocational interests and career paths before graduation. An important theme is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to life planning for young people with ADHD. The authors therefore caution against assuming attending a four-year college right after high school―or at all―is the best path to a successful, fulfilling adulthood. Instead, they advocate for nurturing natural talents, exploring careers that “work” with ADHD (sales, business owner, chef), using available services (transition planning, vocational testing and counseling), trying out work experiences (volunteer work, internships, summer jobs), and perhaps taking a gap year before getting additional education (college, community college, technical training).

The book offers plentiful advice on building a strong, positive parent-child relationship and recognizing and addressing anxiety and depression and low self-esteem. With a hopeful and personable message, the authors share their own and other parents’ insights about avoiding common missteps and mitigating the impacts of ADHD. Don’t miss this top-notch guide to helping young people define and prep for the future with its very specific ADHD strategies and collaborative approach to launching teens into their life’s journey.

"Am I Invisible?" is a book for many audiences! Educators who want to do better for all kids who walk a different path (aka. the spectrum road), kids who are on that path and their parents. "Am I Invisible?" takes you on a heartfelt and brutally honest journey of one child's view through school as a child on the autism spectrum. Being diagnosed with PDD-NOS (Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified), Depression and Anxiety. The author Murphy Lynne, knows all too well the obstacles, challenges, inspiration and celebrations that she encountered along the way. Take this journey with her and come out a better teacher, parent and student who knows they aren't alone.

You live in a world that wasn't designed for you. A world where you're expected to sit still, stay quiet, and focus. Because of the way your brain is wired, you can feel like you’re failing at life. But you are not failing. You are awesome.

Award-winning content creators Kim and Penn Holderness are on a mission to reboot how we think about the unfortunately named "attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder." As always, they are doing it by looking in the mirror, because they don't just study ADHD; they live it.

Penn was in college when he was diagnosed with ADHD, although the signs of having a brain that worked just a little bit differently had been there since he was a kid. Rather than view the diagnosis as a curse or give in to feelings of inadequacy or failure, he took a different approach, one that he wants to share with fellow ADHDers and the people who care about them.

Drawing on their often-hilarious insights and the expertise of doctors, researchers, and specialists; Kim and Penn provide fun, easy-to-digest advice and explanations, including:

What it's actually like to live with an ADHD brain.

How to find humor in the pitfalls, sob stories, and unbelievable triumphs (like the time they won The Amazing Race!) that come with ADHD.

How to tackle the challenges ADHD presents with a positive outlook.

Targeted tools and techniques to play to your unique strengths.