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Read the latest news about our team, innovations, developments, and partnerships as we work to shape the world for difference.
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Read the latest news about our team, innovations, developments, and partnerships as we work to shape the world for difference.
Understood is the only lifelong guide for those who learn and think differently. Today, we reach more than 20 million people each year, helping them discover their potential, learn how to take control, find community, and stay on a positive path along each stage of life’s journey. Once learning and thinking differences are embraced, confidence is built, community is created, jobs become careers, and life is more fulfilling.
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Take N.O.T.E. is a web-based tool based on a four-step process that parents and children can follow together to understand if the child has a learning or thinking difference. Take N.O.T.E. asks users to:
The Understood Podcast Network offers real talk and personal stories for and from people who learn and think differently. Our three podcasts — with more to come — bring new voices, perspectives, and visibility that you won’t get anywhere else.
In It
Returning after two seasons and garnered more than 100,000 downloads, new episodes of In It will debut every other Thursday to explore the joys and challenges of supporting kids who learn and think differently.
ADHD Aha!
With new episodes debuting every other Tuesday, ADHD Aha! narrows in on the moment an individual or someone they know learned they had ADHD, and the emotional and sometimes funny ways symptoms surfaced.
How'd You Get That Job?!
Airing every Wednesday, How’d You Get That Job?! explores the unique and unexpected career paths of people who learn and think differently.
Learn more about our experts and their areas of focus
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Director, Thought Leadership and Expertise, Understood
Areas of expertise: special education, learning disabilities and ADHD, early intervention
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Executive Director, Learning Development, Understood
Areas of expertise: special education, learning disabilities and ADHD, school administration
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Executive Director, Learning and Emotional Assessment Program, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Areas of expertise: neuropsychology, mental health, learning disabilities, ADHD
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Joan Weiler Arnow ’49 Professor and Chair of Education Program, Lasell University
Areas of expertise: bilingual special education services, learning disabilities, and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS)
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Clinician in Private Practice; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Morehouse School of Medicine
Areas of expertise: clinical psychology
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Elementary Science and STEM Education Specialist, Baltimore City Public Schools
Areas of expertise: special education, STEM education, community engagement, personal experience in dyslexia and dyscalculia
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