Quotes from Mel Levine

We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids who had too much success early in life and who've become accustomed to instant gratification, ... Ready or Not, Here Life Comes.

If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER

It's never too late to understand and strengthen a mind.

think schools should assume responsibility for teaching kids how to learn, and parents need to have the assignment of teaching kids how to work!

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men arecreated different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy inseeking to become like each other. DAVID RIESMAN, The Lonely Crowd

I worry when we try to make every little cluster of traits into a syndrome, ignoring the toxic stigmatizing effects of being so designated, which can last a lifetime. We could help Doug without forcing him to become a pathological specimen!

It is vitally important that teachers and parents identify students who are slow processors and not consider them abnormal or deviant persons.

neurodevelopmental dysfunction is misread as a behavior problem

Reading problems may stem from dysfunctions of phonologic or phonemic awareness, deficient analysis or recognition of visual patterns, active working memory limitations, and/or reduced lexical access. The latter might be part of a much broader memory retrieval or language dysfunction.