by Dr. Selz | Aug 9, 2024 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities, Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
Last week we raised the question of whether spelling matters (,https://shutdownlearner.com/does-spelling-matter-2/), as the issue of struggling spellers is often dismissed since there are a variety of spell check tools available. Almost always, struggling spelling is...
by Dr. Selz | Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Georgia is a lively, spontaneous and friendly 10-year- old student entering the fifth grade. Cognitive testing placed her between the average to above average range for most of the domains assessed. Spelling and writing were a different story for her. Here are some...
by Dr. Selz | Jul 26, 2024 | ADHD/ADD, Reading Comprehension
When Kids struggle with reading comprehension it is interesting that there often is an overlap in “real life,” that is in the way the child interacts in their personal world. In this era of automatically labeling and pathologizing behavior as “ADHD,” this...
by Dr. Selz | Jul 12, 2024 | ADHD/ADD, Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
This blog can occasionally serve as a bit of a confessional, providing me with a forum to voice some concerns regarding the issues that emerge while working with struggling children and their parents. So, with that in mind here’s a confession. Sometimes I honestly...
by Dr. Selz | Jul 5, 2024 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Even though I’ve probably evaluated a few thousand dyslexic kids in my career, it still takes my breath away when I meet those who are on the more significant to severe end of the spectrum. This week my breath was taken away on back-to-back assessments. Both children...
