Processing speed isn’t a one-dimensional concept. It’s not just about how fast received, or how fast we write or how fast we can process what we’ve heard. It’s really a combination of all those factors. In fact, processing speed deficits […]
Host Dr. Richard Selznick author of School Struggles, Dyslexia Screening and The Shut Down Learner Guest: Jessica Zawrotny, OTJessica Zawrotny is the Lead Occupational Therapist at Sensational Kids in Marlton, NJ. Jessica is very passionate about new research related to […]
Let’s say you have a little child, perhaps five or six years of age. He doesn’t know how to swim, so you decide it’s time to give him lessons. What if the swim instructor said something like, “You know we […]
I’m not sure what’s going on out there, but more and more I hear parents say that when their child (typically a boy) is resistant to school, the resistance is linked to anguish (hatred) of performing any type of writing. […]
In a recent post, we discussed the perfect storm of ADHD/LD and writing. I noted that at the heart of ADHD and LD issues are deficits in active working memory. Open-ended writing can be dreadfully difficult to school-struggling children because […]