by Dr. Selz | Apr 11, 2025 | Modern Childhood
(***Had thought about answering some emails regaring the last few posts, but life got in the way. So I thought I would pull one out from the archives.)...
by Dr. Selz | Apr 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
When a child is school struggling, 99.9% of the time the parents get it. They know there’s something up. They are looking for validation. This is where it gets murky. When the parents raise the question of dyslexia with the school, typically they are told that the...
by Dr. Selz | Mar 27, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Modern Childhood
“Children surrounded by fast-paced visual stimuli at the expense of face-to-face adult modeling, interactive language, reflective problem- solving, creative play, and sustained attention may be expected to arrive at school unprepared for academic learning—and...
by Dr. Selz | Mar 21, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Assessment
“‘I think the current diagnosis of ADHD is a mess and has been wildly overdone. It blames a variety of symptoms entirely on the child’s brain, and ignores the child’s environment and the interaction with it.” (Dr. William B. Carey, pediatrician, researcher,...
by Dr. Selz | Mar 14, 2025 | Assessment
Even though schools will tell parents that they need to see a neurologist to diagnose dyslexia, the following are essentials that must be considered in an assessment: Reading aloud from a graded word list to determine word identification skills and how automatically...
