by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 13, 2009 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
This week I met James, age 7 and a half. In my assessment of James, I found him to be extremely bright, with excellent higher level reasoning skills and a lively spontaneous personality. His reading skills were developing nicely, matching his strong...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 2, 2009 | Executive Functioning
By the upper elementary school grades, the message parents often get from the school is their child needs to do schoolwork on his/her own without parental support. For many children (those that can do work on their own), that’s exactly what should be happening....
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jun 24, 2009 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Anxiety over your child’s school-based problems can start very early. A mom recently contacted me after reading The Shut-Down Learner. “My son is drowning in school. Do you think he could be a shut-down learner?” After asking a few more questions, I was struck by the...
