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A little background on the site...
NLD on the Web! was designed and
developed in September, 1999 by Pamela Tanguay and Joan Scott, both mothers
of NLD daughters. We first met several years ago on a neuropsychology
bulletin board, and joined forces as we headed down the same challenging
path - researching the disorder at a time when NLD information was very hard
to come by, especially on the web! This site is a result of those efforts.
Our goal was to create the kind of web site we were hoping to find ourselves
... but never did. Something that may have been titled "Everything
you ever wanted to know about NLD, but were afraid to ask."
As we sent our search engines off to probe the worldwide web, seeking
information on "NLD," we learned about the mission of the
National League for Democracy, the reason the horror flick "Night of
the Living Dead" is considered a classic of the genre, and several
theoretical explanations of Non-Linear Dynamics (which, if you're wondering,
is the study of processes in chemical reactions). All very helpful to
parents of left-wing zombies who turn green in the presence of daylight ...
but, unfortunately, not helpful to parents researching Nonverbal Learning
Disorder.
Happily, in the past couple of years, we've witnessed a real growth in
the number of sites that refer to NLD, and actually mean Nonverbal
Learning Disorder! We've tried to gather all that scattered information into
one place, and added the best resources we could find from many other areas.
We hope you find the material presented here meaningful. And we hope your
active participation will help to make NLD on the Web! a valuable
online community for individuals, families, and professionals affected by
this frequently misunderstood disorder.
The wizards behind the curtain...
Pamela B. Tanguay
Pam is the mom of a teen daughter who was diagnosed with NLD at the age
of nine. Since that time, Pam has become an active advocate for individuals
with NLD and related conditions, and has written a book of practical
strategies for parenting children with NLD - entitled, appropriately, Nonverbal
Learning Disabilities at Home: A Parent's Guide. In addition to her activities at the local
level, Pam was also a founding board member of ASC-U.S. (formerly ASPEN of America,
Inc.), a
national non-profit advocacy organization supporting neurologically-based
communication disorders. She continues to serve the organization as a member
of its Advisory Board. Pam, her
husband, and their daughter, make their home in Tolland, CT, USA.
Joan Scott
Joan is also the mother of daughter with NLD,
diagnosed at 14, and now in her early 20s. So her interest in
particular aspects of NLD have evolved along with her daughter's daily struggles -
from early problems with motor skills, through the triumphs and tragedies of
adolescence, to the bumpy transition to adult life. Joan is past-President
of the Montreal chapter of the Learning Disabilities Association, she has
experience hosting an internet forum for parents of children with special
needs, and like Pam, is a former board member of ASC-U.S. She
is currently the editor of a quarterly newsletter for a local
multidisciplinary care center, and a freelance screenwriter of children's
animated television programming. Joan lives in Montreal, Canada, with her
husband and daughter.
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