Welcome to Mindroom
A charity dedicated to helping children and adults with learning difficulties

Why?

Did you know that there are at least 5 children in every class with some form of learning difficulty who will then grow into adults with learning difficulties?

Who?

Whether you are a child, a parent, a relative, a teacher or any other professional, it doesn't matter. It's for you.

How?

Mindroom's goal is to create such awareness that, by the year 2020, all children and adults in this country with learning difficulties will receive the recognition and help they need.

We will achieve this by:

  • Offering direct help and support
  • Arranging high profile conferences
  • Setting up multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres
  • Setting up specialist schools

 

Click here to read more about Mindroom

 

Press Room

Learning Difficulties in the Classroom : Research Questionnaire
We are surveying every school in the UK to determine the scale of learning difficulties that teachers are facing.You have a unique opportunity to be part of this Mindroom survey.We want to find out how many children there are in each class who may have some form of Learning Difficulty. Your input is a vital part of the end result, so could we please ask that you take five minutes of your time to fill in our questionnaire .
29/04/2008

Mindroom Professor new Queen of Australia
The wonderful Loretta Giorcelli, who has spoken at all three Mindroom conferences, has been given one of the highest accolades possible in her native Australia, The Medal of the Order of Australia.
18/07/2007

Mindroom Bigger Picture Award
Established in 2006, in collaboration with prestigious American Journal of Attention Disorders. The award seeks to encourage research into ADHD and co-existing difficulties. The prize is provided to the authors of an innovative article contributing to an understanding of issues related to co-occurring psychiatric developmental and related problems in ADHD.
17/07/2007

Upcoming Events

Hardwired To Learn - Mindroom Masterclass with Dr Sam Goldstein - Edinburgh - 20th May 2008
Dr Sam Goldstein takes a look at what's new in the field of learning difficulties- ADHD, Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, DCD, Dyslexia and other related difficulties. Limited availability - first come first served!
07/02/2008

Retriever - At your service

Check out our 24/7 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) global news service.

Accessing over 10,000 international web sources and updating the news forum every ten minutes, we are able to serve up the very latest articles on issues concerning learning difficulties.

This excellent service comes to you curtesy of Retriever - Scandinavias leading digital newsagency.
For more information please visit www.retriever-info.com

Imagine for a moment...

...that you have been working all day on your computer. An important document has been polished to perfection and is ready to be printed out. You press the print button. Nothing happens. Arrrghh! Frustration, anger, futility, resignation. You feel them all. Understandably.

Having learning difficulties can be just like that. You seem to have all the tools to work with, but your 'internal print button' is out of order. You feel frustration and failure at every turn.

No wonder things often end in tears.



The Brain

The Brain - is wider than the Sky
For - put them side by side
The one the other will contain
With ease - and you - beside

Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886

Mindroom Recommends

Hypers Book - Thirty Lines A Day

By hugely popular Norwegian writer Thor Soltvedt.


A wonderful, thought provoking poem about a boy with ADHD.  A sort of Curious incident in The Nighttime story about Hyper Ant who clashes with his environment.

Click here to read more about Hyper Ant
 


Raising a Self Disciplined Child

by Robert Brookes PhD and Sam Goldstein PhD

*HOT OFF THE PRESS.*

Filled with realistic, practical strategies and sample
scenarios, this book shows you how to teach your child, ages 6 to 16, the value of self-control, self-reliance and self-assurance: the all-important skills that will last them a lifetime.

 

Click here to read more


Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships

by Dr Temple Grandin and Sean Barron

The latest book by the fascinating Temple Grandin , decoding social mysteries through the unique perspectives of autism.  

Click here to read more