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Learn Differently

We Design Learning Programs for Unique Learning Needs

As a beautiful human you deserve a tutoring plan that uses your strengths, interests, diagnoses, and abilities to achieve your goals. A successful plan presumes your competence and success.

About Us

Why Different Drum?

Inspired by Thoreau’s words, we honor the rhythm each learner hears — however measured or far away.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer…

— Henry David Thoreau

The mission of Different Drum Learning Designs is to support nonspeakers, neurodivergent individuals, and families through tutoring, coaching, and spelling-based communication. This work is grounded in the Social Emotional Arts and the belief that joy, rhythm, and agency are essential to learning.