Summary: Sera Rivers - Raising a child with non-verbal learning disability. Writer for Psychology Today Meet this amazing - and adorable - mom who has not only become educated herself but is educating others with her beautiful writings and advocacy author of the column A Lonely Education. Sera also writes and advocates for single parents raising special needs children. If you have a child w nonverbal learning disabilities or if you are a single parent struggling to navigate the system listen and call in.