Dr. Thomas Armstrong provides educators and parents with innovative perspectives and practical strategies to help support children and adolescents in becoming more effective learners and more creative individuals at home and school. His topics include:

• Multiple Intelligences (''The 8 Kinds of Smart'')
• Neurodiversity
• The Best Schools
• Awakening Inner Genius
• Non-Drug Alternatives to ADD/ADHD

He is the Executive Director of the American Institute for Learning and Human Development, and an award-winning author and speaker who has been an educator for the past forty years.   

Over one million copies of his books are in print on issues related to learning and human development.

Dr. Armstrong has given over 950 keynotes, workshops, seminars, and lectures in 44 states and 23 countries over the past twenty-eight years. His clients have included:

• The Children's Television Workshop (Sesame Street)
• The European Council of International Schools
• The Republic of Singapore
• Lucas Learning (Star Wars®)
• Hasbro Toys
• The American Cancer Society
• The Beijing Institute of Education
• Wyeth Philippines Inc.
• The Bureau of Indian Affairs

He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Authors Guild, PEN -American Center, The National Speakers Association, and the Global Speakers Federation.

His topics include:

• Neurodiversity in the Classroom:  Strength-Based Strategies for Students with Special Needs
• Eight Kinds of Smart:  Building on a Student's Assets for Success in School and Life
• The Road to Genius:  Unleashing Your Natural Birthright to Brilliance
• The Myth of the ADD Child: 25 Non-Drug Strategies to Improve Behavior and Attention Span in All Kids
• The Best Schools:  How the Push for Academic Achievement is Endangering Our Children's Creative Minds

He is the author of fifteen books including:

• 7 Kinds of Smart: Identifying and Developing Your Multiple Intelligences
• The Power of Neurodiversity: Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain
• Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Achieve Success in School and Life
• Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 3rd Edition,
• In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences
• Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius: Enhancing Curiosity, Creativity, and Learning Ability
• The Myth of the A.D.D. Child: 50 Ways to Improve Your Child's Behavior and Attention Span without Drugs, Labels, or Coercion
• The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life
• The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
• ADD/ADHD Alternatives in the Classroom
• Awakening Genius in the Classroom

His books have been translated in over eighty foreign editions into twenty-six languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Hebrew, Danish, and Russian.

He has written for Ladies Home Journal, Family Circle (where he received awards from the Educational Press Association, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals), Parenting (where he was a regularly featured columnist for four years), Mothering (where he was a contributing editor) and over thirty other periodicals, journals, and edited books.

He has appeared on several national and international television and radio programs, including NBC's "The Today Show," "CBS This Morning," "CNN," the "BBC" and "The Voice of America."

Articles featuring his work have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily, Good Housekeeping, and hundreds of other newspapers and magazines around the country.

Dr. Armstrong lives in Sonoma County, California in a pink Victorian on a hill with his wife, psychotherapist/author/publisher Dr. Barbara Turner, and their two dogs Dewey and Daisy.