by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 22, 2019 | School/Special Education Misc
So often, in the work that I do with parents regarding their kids, there comes that squeamish point, where the parent asks the inevitable dreaded question… “So, what do we do about it?” Why it’s dreaded is there is almost never, and I mean never (at least from my...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 15, 2019 | Reading Comprehension
When Kids struggle with comprehension it is interesting that often there is an overlap in “real life,” that is in the way the child interacts in his personal world. In this era of quickly labeling and pathologizing behavior automatically as “ADHD,” this overlap is...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 8, 2019 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
Open-Ended writing is usually not difficult for children on the “smooth road,” the ones without the myriad of variables leading to school struggling. For the “Smooth-Roaders” their sentences are complete and varied in style. There is flow to their written stories...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 1, 2019 | School/Special Education Misc
I’m sure you know the old school expression, that something “sticks in your craw.” Probably not a day goes by where something is not sticking in my craw. The only good that comes of it is I usually get inspired by the stuck craw to generate something to write about...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jan 25, 2019 | School/Special Education Misc
This week my “Annoy-O-Meter,” which is usually running pretty high (like at a level of 70 out of 100), was up in the high 90s. What pushed it into the upper end of the dial was a run of girls that I either evaluated or met with their parents to discuss their girl’s...
