Moving from Stigma to Strengths
Recommended for families and caregivers interested in teaching their student how to advocate for their learning needs.
Topics covered in this package are Neurodiversity, Growth Mindset, EF Friendly Classrooms, Universal Design for Learning, and Inclusive Technologies That Help.
These modules can help you:
- Identify what you can do to support your student’s exploration of neurodiversity as an empowering experience.
- Reflect on your growth mindset(s) in different situations so that you can talk with your student about how you can help them grow as a learner.
- Discuss with your student and their educators, administrators, tutors, and coaches the executive function supports that may improve your student’s learning and/or educational environments.
- Identify Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies that can reduce or remove the barriers preventing your student from achieving the learning objectives for any course or project.
- Encourage your student to identify and experiment with learning technologies that may help them reach their learning goals.
Topics included in this package:
EF Friendly Classrooms
Discuss with your student and their educators, administrators, tutors, and coaches the executive function supports that may improve your student’s learning and/or educational environments.
Growth Mindset
Reflect on your mindsets in different situations so that you can talk with your student about how you can help them grow as a learner.
Inclusive Learning Technologies That Help
Encourage your student to identify and experiment with learning technologies that may help them reach their learning goals.
Neurodiversity
Identify three things you can do to support your student’s exploration of neurodiversity as an empowering experience.
Universal Design for Learning
Identify Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies that can reduce or remove the barriers preventing your student from achieving the learning objectives for any course or project.