There are many temptations to organize our life around the experience of earlier trauma. But that may short-change the future—which starts by our envisioning something better.
Children with disabilities have basic rights that must always be respected including opportunities to participate in society and to receive an education.
After more than a year away from school, it will take time for all students to reacclimatize to in-person teaching. Students with disabilities will need even more support.
The free exchange of ideas, debate, and scientific discovery are the foundation of civil society, regardless of political or religious views. The alternative is darkness.
New discoveries in hearing science and surgical techniques restore hearing and accelerate development in children born with severe to profound hearing loss.
Impassioned scientific debate and criticism are essential for discovery. Social activism aimed at bullying scientists into abandoning research is antithetical to discovery.
Kindergarten children's latent love of learning is being destroyed by attempts to "teach to the test" and prepare for a lifetime of worksheet drudgery.
Teachers—and schools—should not be diagnosing ADHD or pushing medication. In fact, US teaching approaches may be causing ADHD "symptoms" in young children.