"I stand with you," says Friends of Quinn guest blogger Michaela Hearst in this video interview where Quinn gets to know the recent Hunter MSW graduate. In this video, Michaela shares the challenges she overcame with school, and her message for others with LDs. Besides recently getting her MSW, Michaela is a new member of NCLD's Young Adult Leadership Council, a Project Social Ambassador for the NVLD Project, and has blogged for Understood.org....

I've always wanted Friends of Quinn to be a place for anybody to write in and tell their story. Whether it's about how you have learned to thrive with your LD, the people who have been supportive in your journey or what you hope for in the future, we are always eager to hear what you have to say. I’d like to hear from other people in the community – people like you! We are looking for submissions from the public. Our first guest blogger this year...

Here at Friends of Quinn, we like to share good news from all over the world about educational organizations for those with learning differences. One such place doing great work is the state of Nagaland in India, where the Precious Gems School has opened in the city of Dimapur.

“Precious Gems School of the Developmental Paediatrics department of CIHSR was started with the objective of being an intervention for children with special needs. The depar...

The IBM Foundation and the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) have partnered to help teachers support students with learning differences through IBM’s Teacher Advisor with Watson platform.

According to a recent press release from the IBM Foundation, “Teacher Advisor With Watson uses machine learning to correlate and understand nuances within a curated content collection of over 8,000 Open Educational Resources (OER) including vetted,...

Standardized tests are often challenging for students, especially those with learning differences. Well, imagine how much greater the challenge can be when you are taking a test on a computer, there is a glitch, and the test itself is gone from the screen.

Such is the challenge in Texas with the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STARR). In this article, read about the challenges of administering tests electronically and how technica...

We are excited to share a short article and video today highlighting a progressive school for those with LD's. Notably the alma mater of Friends of Quinn's founder Quinn Bradlee, The Gow School in South Wales, NY is, "...a college-prep boarding school for students grades 6th through 12th with dyslexia and other language based learning disabilities."

To learn more, you can read more here!  

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At Friends of Quinn, we are always learning about new organizations that celebrate and support those with LD’s. One such organization is the award-winning arts organization DYSPLA.

Based in London, England, DYSPLA is dedicated to, “producing and developing the work of dyslexic and neurodivergent storymakers...we work internationally in film, immersive theatre, installation and digital art. Incorporated in 2013 to shed light on Dyslexic Narrative an...

For our first Video Playlist in 2018, meet Alex Kelsey. Alex is a young man who lives in New Zealand and has a passion for rally race cars. In 18 months, using his family’s barn as his garage, he was able to build a competitive rally car with a V6 engine from scratch. Alex also has dyslexia and in his own words, “barely scraped through high school.”

In Video 1 from the YouTube Channel, “Cheap Trillz,”, learn more about Alex, his dyslexia, and what...