Cajal Academy

08/18/2026

Dyspraxia is a brain-based motor coordination disorder that often goes unnoticed. It can affect handwriting, physical activities, and academic performance. Our interventions have shown significant improvements in academic achievement for bright and gifted children with dyspraxia.

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Cajal Academy is an innovative K-12 school for gifted and twice exceptional kids, including kids with dyspraxia, dysgraphia and other motor coordination difficulties, and the delays in written expression that they can produce. Our revolutionary approach reduces or even removes learning challenges b

08/16/2026

Are you looking for support for your twice exceptional child? Look no further! Our expertise on twice exceptional kids focuses on identifying their strengths and challenges, providing tailored interventions, and creating a supportive environment for their growth and success.

Learn more about how growing up with high intellectual gifts coupled with an area of differences shapes childhood, and why they need our hel!

08/09/2026

When I was young, I'd never heard of . When both my kids -- the one I made and the one I adopted -- were diagnosed with , I started following the rabbit holes to help them find their way to healthy...but ended up redesigning K-12 education! Read on our blog how my training as a led me to be looking at the intersection between systems--leading to research-backed methods for not just empowering kids like mine but reducing learning disabilities. Read more on our blog.

A letter from our Co-Founder on how caring for her children’s Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome led Cajal’s team to look in different places than other educators…leading us to discover solutions that are helping a much broader group of kids.

08/04/2026

Far too few educators and even pediatricians know how to spot the signs of dyspraxia: a brain-based motor coordination disorder that can undermine not only handwriting and gym class but the very ability to access your intellectual skills during tasks that include a motor component. Learn more about this common challenge driving task avoidance and academic anxiety for bright and gifted kids, and how our pioneering interventions have brought up academic achievement by as much as 6 grade levels in 6 months time!

Cajal Academy is an innovative K-12 school for gifted and twice exceptional kids, including kids with dyspraxia, dysgraphia and other motor coordination difficulties, and the delays in written expression that they can produce. Our revolutionary approach reduces or even removes learning challenges b

08/02/2026

There are lots of assumptions or even stigmas and very little information out there about just how complicated it is to grow up with the combination of really high intellectual abilities when they come along with an area of special needs. Check out our resource center to learn more about these complicated kiddos and the help they need.

Learn more about how growing up with high intellectual gifts coupled with an area of differences shapes childhood, and why they need our hel!

07/28/2026

Surviving is all about digging into the connections between symptoms--so when my kids' OT and I set out to design the world's first school that's actually designed for like mine, we started by digging into the science of how the body and the brain interact--and most importantly, how we can actually use those levers to our advantage. Soon, that led us to start experimenting with how we could use those levers to drive : the reality that the human brain is constantly rewiring itself to better perform those tasks you frequently as it to do. Not to spoil the story, but it worked--leading to a pioneering methodology for reducing or even removing learning disabilities like and . What could be better than making sure the needs of kids with are included in the conversation--and in the process, shifting the conversation about what is possible for education as a whole. Read more on our blog.

A letter from our Co-Founder on how caring for her children’s Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome led Cajal’s team to look in different places than other educators…leading us to discover solutions that are helping a much broader group of kids.

07/26/2026

Does your child love to make up stories but "refuse" to write? Dyspraxia is a brain-based motor coordination disorder that can undermine kids' access to their high analytical and creative abilities: a challenge that is dismissed all too often as a "behavioral" problem when in fact it's a learning disability. Find out more about this often overlooked learning impairment, and what can be done about it!

Cajal Academy is an innovative K-12 school for gifted and twice exceptional kids, including kids with dyspraxia, dysgraphia and other motor coordination difficulties, and the delays in written expression that they can produce. Our revolutionary approach reduces or even removes learning challenges b

07/24/2026

So excited to be back at the Ehlers Danlos Society annual Global Learning Conference in Dallas, Texas! We'll be re-upping our knowledge of all the research developments in EDS care to keep our specialized instruction for at Cajal Academy , where our innovations for ALL kids came out of our work as the world's first K-12 school for EDS kids! Connect with me if you're here!

07/19/2026

We're at the Norwalk World Cup final watch party today! Look for the hat and come say hi!!



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