Braiins is working to raise awareness for Dyspraxia | Developmental Coordination Disorder | DCD and some of its co-morbities: Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, and Complex Motor Stereotypies | CMS (highlighting Intense Imagery Movements | IIM along the way). We hope to serve as a neurodiversity hub for information for these lesser known conditions, grow into a gathering place, and be a place for sharing, a place to identify, and most importantly, be a place to belong - for kids, teens, and adults alike. Too often, the little voices are left behind.

There are many websites that provide an enormous amount of factual information about these conditions and they do an excellent job to outline the basic symptoms, diagnostic criteria, and how your child (or an individual) will be affected - making these sites wonderful starting resources for parents and all those who are looking for answers.  

In many cases though, our neurodivergent children are beautifully complicated. With so much overlap and symptoms bleeding into each other, finding a diagnosis or an explanation can be trying. Especially when the criteria of one condition so easily fits another. Looking at information clinically distilled into fact sheets, often brings little comfort to already overwhelmed and fatigued parents and individuals who are just grasping to understand, and who are doing their best to cope.  What is needed is a broader view, a more complete story, and greater personal insights, reassuring these individuals and families that they are not alone in their journey, their struggles and their fights.

In bringing together research, facts, and in sharing our family’s stories, and showing how these conditions translate into real-life experiences, Braiins endeavors to foster this much needed more encompassing understanding and integrated perspective of dys-abilities, CMS, and IIM for everyone.