Eleven: Another Look at a Reading Disorder

by | Jun 17, 2013 | Blog

In my continuing effort to discern how learning differences have been featured in literature, I enjoyed reading Patricia Reilly Giff’s book, Eleven.  Sam is just turning eleven and can barely read. As he puts it,  “words look like spiders flexing their thin legs...

POETRY THERAPY

by | Jun 10, 2013 | Mental health, Writing

My debut novel originated from poems that were written as a catharsis, my own peculiar way of healing years of unanswered questions and unresolved angst over my mother’s mental illness.  In my teaching years, I saw some of the best student poetry emanate out of...

CELEBRATING JOEY PIGZA

by | Jun 3, 2013 | Mental health, Writing

I’ve taught middle grade students with ADHD and I’m working on a book whose protagonist has it, so of course I am reading all the fiction and nonfiction I can get my hands on that pertain to this subject.  At the bottom of this post I have listed a few...