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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.org is the resource that helps the 70 million people with learning and thinking differences anticipate the challenges, barriers, or opportunities in life and confidently reach their potential. We do this through personalized and expert-driven experiences, community, and content. Our mission is to shape a world for difference so that people who learn and think differently can thrive, to build a more equitable world where neurodiversity is championed and celebrated, and everyone can be uniquely Understood.
Understood’s “Be the Reason” campaign aims to build awareness of and reduce stigma around learning and thinking differences among parents. Through new research, a social media challenge, and a variety of videos, resources, real stories, and activities for parents to engage their child, we want to help parents be the reason their child thrives.
The #YouCanBeTheReason social media challenge is led by social media influencers The Holderness Family, who share their personal experience with ADHD. The challenge encourages parents to share how they’ve helped their child thrive — across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Take the challenge and share how #YouCanBeTheReason.
To further our mission of supporting, advocating for, and creating awareness around the 1 in 5 people who learn and think differently, Understood launched for/by: an ezine on Medium that aims to counter the misconceptions of learning and thinking differences by sharing real stories, perspectives, and experiences from neurodiverse individuals.
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Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Co-President & Chief Marketing Officer
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Co-President & Chief Product Officer
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Chief Administrative Officer & Head of Workplace
Learn more about our experts and their areas of focus
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Subject Matter Expert, Psychology and Learning, Understood
Areas of expertise: special education, ADHD, social-emotional functioning, mental health
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Executive Director, Learning Development, Understood
Areas of expertise: special education, learning disabilities and ADHD, school administration
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Educational and Neurodiversity Consultant
Areas of expertise: special education, learning disabilities and ADHD, early intervention
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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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