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Biography from www.jonathanmooney.com

Jonathan Mooney is a dyslexic writer and activist who did not learn to read until he was 12 years old. He is a graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in English Literature. Jonathan is cofounder of Project Eye-To-Eye, a mentoring program for disabled students. He is also a winner of the prestigious Truman Scholarship for graduate studies in creative writing and education and was a national finalist for the Rhodes scholarship. At age 23, he published Learning Outside the Lines, a book that is part memoir and part alternative study skills. He has established himself as one of the foremost leaders in LD/ADHD, disabilities, and alternative education.
Jonathan has lectured at Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Brown University, the University of Wisconsin School of Education, New York University Medical School’s Grand Rounds, and Beaumont Pediatric Hospital’s Grand Rounds. He has also been featured and quoted in The New York Times, The Providence Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today, and numerous other local and regional papers.

In this speech, Jonathan will walk the audience through his profound journey of educational and personal change, empowering people to think differently about LD/ADHD individuals and the concept of learning itself. At core of this presentation is a message of personal empowerment, academic success and educational revolution for people who think differently


Program Objectives
As a presentation that deals with a range of educational issues, the program has the following objectives:
1) To empower the audience to understand the emotional experiences of students who think differently and to break down the socialization of cognitive difference.
2) To provide the audience with concrete tools to accommodate and empower students who are outside the lines both inside and outside the classroom.
3) And lastly, to empower teachers, students, and parents to replace the concept of learning disabilities with an understanding of the paradoxes of disability and the revolutionary concept of cognitive diversity.


Part One: The Socialization of Cognitive Difference
Understanding and deconstructing “stupid” “crazy” “lazy”

Part Two: Balancing Remediation with Empowerment
Strategies to stop fixing kids and find out what they can do

Part Three: Accommodating the Alternative Learner
Classroom accommodations for alternative learners

Part Four: Learning Outside the Lines, Outside the Classroom
Academic strategies for home and beyond

Part Five: Celebrating Cognitive Diversity
Strategies to embrace the paradoxes of disabilities, ideas on ways to celebrate the culture of the disabled, and a vision of the future—individualized education and the age of different minds and cognitive diversity in the classroom.

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