by Dr. Selz | Feb 7, 2025 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities, Parenting Misc
Anxiety over a child’s school-based problems can start very early. After reading The Shut-Down Learner, a mom contacted me. “My son’s drowning in in school. Do you think he could be a shut-down learner,” she asked. After asking a few more...
by Dr. Selz | Jan 30, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities, Modern Childhood, Parenting Misc
Those of you following this blog for some time know there are some recurring themes in these posts. Frequently, the blogs are my outlet for getting things off my chest that frequently come up in my interactions with parents. If you’re a relative newcomer, I will...
by Dr. Selz | Jan 23, 2025 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Parents frequently raise questions of dyslexia with their child’s school. When they report back to me how the conversation went, I get the feeling that the school goes into a sort of quiet hush mode, like they are talking about Voldemort – “He Who Must Not Be Named.”...
by Dr. Selz | Jan 16, 2025 | ADHD/ADD, Reading Comprehension
When Kids struggle with reading comprehension, often there is an overlap in “real life” and the way the child interacts in their personal world. In this era of automatically labeling and pathologizing an unwanted behavior as “ADHD,” this overlap is something...
by Dr. Selz | Jan 3, 2025 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
I am continually struck by the challenges struggling children face when it comes to their writing. At a very basic level, they have little to no idea what goes into the writing of a sentence, no less a paragraph or a typical three-paragraph essay. For children who...
