by Todd Rose
Student Advisors for Education. Read This When You Can: Stories and Essays by SAFE Voices. San Francisco: Parents Education Network, 2008.
Waber, Deborah. Rethinking Learning Disabilities: Understanding Children Who Struggle in School. White River Junction, VT: Guilford Press, 2010.
About the Authors
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L. Todd Rose is a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an international lecturer, and a leading thinker in the field of educational neuroscience. He is also the cofounder of Project Variability, which was developed to provide international leadership around the radical new science of variability and its implications for learning and education, making it possible, for the first time, to support all learners in reaching their individual potential. Learn more at: www.projectvariability.org.
Photo: Joseph Epstein
Katherine Ellison is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who has written three books on neuroscience and learning differences, most recently Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention, as well as related articles for media including The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic magazine.
Other Works
Also by Katherine Ellison
Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention
The Mommy Brain:
How Motherhood Makes You Smarter
The New Economy of Nature:
The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
And
Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines
Copyright
Some of the names and identifying characteristics of persons discussed in this book have been changed to protect their identities.
Note to Reader: This book represents an individual’s personal story and specific experiences with members of the medical and educational community. This book is not intended to substitute for an individual’s medical, psychological, or educational treatment. It is not the equivalent of, nor is it intended as a replacement for, any professionally supervised treatment. All matters concerning your health or that of a family member should be addressed through consultation with appropriate experts, and are not the purview of this book. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any liability arising directly or indirectly from use of this book.
Copyright © 2013 L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information address Hyperion, 1500 Broadway, New York, New York 10036.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Rose, L. Todd.
Square peg : my story and what it means for raising innovators, visionaries, and out-of-the-box thinkers / L. Todd Rose with Katherine Ellison.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-4013-2427-8
1. Learning disabled. 2. Learning disabled—Education. 3. Learning disabled—Psychology. 4. Rose, L. Todd. 5. Learning disabled—Biography. I. Title.
LC4818.R67 2013
371.9—dc23
2012037125
eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-0496-6
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