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An urgent exposé revealing the most widespread yet little acknowledged threat to child well-being: lack of acceptance. This daring memoir not only uncovers the truth about how our schools and communities treat unique children but also provides meaningful insights for a more dignified future, through the lens of Taylor's own experiences raising a neurodiverse child.
About the author
Kayla Taylor writes to address important issues plaguing families, and she uses a pseudonym to protect the identities of minor children. She is donating her profits from the first edition of
Canaries Among Us to organizations promoting mental health, neurodiversity, and bullying prevention.
Summary
An urgent exposé revealing the most widespread yet little acknowledged threat to child well-being: lack of acceptance. This daring memoir not only uncovers the truth about how our schools and communities treat unique children but also provides meaningful insights for a more dignified future, through the lens of Taylor’s own experiences raising a neurodiverse child.
Foreword
• Author has hired a publicist, Get Red PR-Promoting to several institutions likely to endorse Canaries Among Us to their large audiences given the synergy of the book with their own missions:
- Understood.com: weekly email distribution of [estimate: 1,000,000]
- Common Sense Media: distribution > 1,000,000
- Child Mind Institute: weekly email distribution of 250,000
- National Center for Learning Differences: weekly email distribution of [TBC]
-Representation Project: weekly email distribution of 200,000
- Children’s Health Council: weekly email distribution of 25,000
- PACER: weekly email distribution of [TBC]
- Center for Institutional Courage: weekly email distribution of [TBC]
- Duke University: author knows the Dean of Undergraduate Education, who cares deeply about social justice. Moreover, Duke promotes and purchases in mass books written by alumni.
- Stanford University: author has many important contacts at the University, which promotes and purchases in mass books written by alumni.
- All clinics and health professionals supporting families with learning differences and mental health concerns
• Leveraging author’s connections with the following leaders in education reform, learning differences and mental health:
- Jonathan Mooney: Author and national advocate for people with learning differences
- David Flink: Author and Executive Director of Eye-to-Eye, a leading dyslexia support organization
- Madeline Levine and Denise Pope: Authors and Founders of Challenge Success at Stanford University
- Harold Koplewicz: Founder and CEO of the Child Mind Institute
- Phil Pizzo: Former Dean of Stanford Medical School and Hospitals
- Harvey Cohen: Previous Chairman of Stanford University’s Department of Pediatrics
- John Chambers: Former Executive Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems (and dyslexic)
- Charles Schwab: Founder of eponymous company (and dyslexic)
- Jim Steyer: Founder of Common Sense Media
- Rosalie Whitlock: CEO of Children’s Health Council
- Valerie Ashby: Dean of Undergraduate studies at Duke University
- Jennifer Siebel Newsom: First Partner of the State of California
- Jennifer Freyd: Researcher on Institutional Betrayal
