What General Educators Need to Know About Neurodiversity in the Writing Classroom: A Writing Roundtable

About this episode

The episode discusses neurodiversity in writing classrooms with M. Colleen Cruz, emphasizing the need for general educators to understand and support neurodivergent learners.

This episode features a rich conversation with author and educator M. Colleen Cruz about her new book, Neurodiversity in the Literacy Classroom: The General Educator’s Guide to IEPs, Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, and More. Colleen shares the story behind the book and explains why information about neurodivergent learners must move out of special education silos and into every general education classroom. Melanie, Stacey, and Colleen explore universal design for learning (UDL), explicit writing inst...

People in this episode

Hosts: Melanie, Stacey

Guest: M. Colleen Cruz

Topics covered

• neurodiversity
• writing education
• universal design for learning
• general education
• literacy
• IEPs
• dyslexia

Keywords

• neurodiversity
• writing classroom
• general education
• dyslexia
• ADHD
• autism
• universal design for learning

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Neurodiversity in the Literacy Classroom: The General Educator’s Guide to IEPs, Dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, and More

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