Dyslexia and ADHD School Survival Guide
Hear from David Flink, cofounder and CEO of Eye to Eye, on his childhood with dyslexia, dealing with bullying in school, and how he transformed his school survival skills into flourishing skills.
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[David Flink on Survival Skills and Flourishing Skills][Understood, for learning & attention issues] [David Flink - Cofounder and CEO, Eye to Eye] So I think families find themselves on a balancing scale between survival and flourishing. And sometimes the survival is literally: "How do I get through today, tomorrow, next week?" And those strategies — I understand where they come from. I hear about kids who every day they wake up in the morning and they have a stomachache, you know. They do not feel up to going to school. And I can empathize. I was that kid. So the survival skills in that regard are little changes. You know, if a kid's having trouble getting done with a test, adding extra time is a survival skill, right? That's ...
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[David Flink on Survival Skills and Flourishing Skills][Understood, for learning & attention issues] [David Flink - Cofounder and CEO, Eye to Eye] So I think families find themselves on a balancing scale between survival and flourishing. And sometimes the survival is literally: "How do I get through today, tomorrow, next week?" And those strategies — I understand where they come from. I hear about kids who every day they wake up in the morning and they have a stomachache, you know. They do not feel up to going to school. And I can empathize. I was that kid. So the survival skills in that regard are little changes. You know, if a kid's having trouble getting done with a test, adding extra time is a survival skill, right? That's ...
