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How To Make This New Year Your Child’s Best Ever!
Sam Young Sam Young

How To Make This New Year Your Child’s Best Ever!

Real life can be really hard and raising a neurodivergent child certainly presents no shortage of challenges.

While our minds can often shift to the negative, it's important that we make a conscious effort to look for the positive. This doesn't always come easy and might take real work for you to get the hang of it, but it's worth it!

Just as you would want with your kids, our goal as adults is to aim to be strength-based and talent-focused as possible.

As we pivot into the New Year, this is an important time…

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Alternative Education Paths: Removing Barriers to Learning for 2e children
Amber Willburn and Mr. Sam Amber Willburn and Mr. Sam

Alternative Education Paths: Removing Barriers to Learning for 2e children

I invite you to see a different way to approach education – one that is passion-driven rather than proscriptive, one that is interest-led rather than top-down, one that caters to the unique learning strengths and challenges of EVERY SINGLE CHILD rather than a cookie cutter education that eschews anyone who doesn’t fit the mold.

I know. I am asking you to depart from culturally entrenched ideas of what school has been for a century. Instead, I want you to embrace what learning CAN be.

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