by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Aug 11, 2016 | Parenting Misc
I know you’re feeling it – that little twinge that is starting to form with the end of summer and the start of the school year. You’ve had a bit of a welcomed respite from some of the school anxiety and worries. You know, the stream of stuff running through Worry...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Aug 4, 2016 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
The scars stay with you. This week while explaining to a dad and his high school age daughter the difficulty that she was having reading complex words and how there might be some associated embarrassment, the dad was brought back to a painful memory from his...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 28, 2016 | Parenting Misc
“Vitamin P” A five year old boy I evaluated recently, Ari, seemed very sweet, although perhaps a little on the shy and a awkward side. After I tested Ari, when I told his mom my largely positive impressions of her son, one of the things she was very...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 21, 2016 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Every decade has a new emphasis. In the mid 1970’s “learning disability” was a scalding hot term. Following the 1970s, ADHD was the topic of the decade. This was followed by autism (or children “on the spectrum”). We are now in the decade of...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
A mom called this week to talk to me about the school district offering a computer program (“Orton-Gillingham based, was the claim) that was providing “direct instruction.” The mom questioned whether the program was “direct instruction,” as the school was...
