by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 22, 2016 | Parenting Misc
Last week we talked about the “Anger River” that resides, often unseen, beneath the “ADD Swamp. ” Control battles, punishments and other attempts at compliance feed the river. (See Anger River: https://shutdownlearner.com/the-anger-river-below-the-add-swamp/)...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 15, 2016 | ADHD/ADD
Do you know about the river that lies below the ADHD/ADD swamp? It’s the Anger River and it lurks down below, often unseen, but detected at times by certain actions or behaviors from either child or parents. How do we detect the Anger River? Punishments have...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 8, 2016 | Executive Functioning
Flexibility of thinking and problem solving are two interacting skills impacting academic and social functioning. Children who have difficulty with these also have trouble with “self-monitoring,” that is the ability to be aware of the correctness of your output to a...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 1, 2016 | ADHD/ADD, Assessment
Rating scales frequently are used as the “tests” to determine whether or not the child has ADHD (as if ADHD can be diagnosed like a broken bone). (“Yep, it says here on these scale that your child has ADHD.”) The fact of the matter is the vast majority of kids...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 25, 2016 | School/Special Education Misc
Those of you have read my blogs or the books know that there are certain aspects of this business (e.g., the over use of worksheets, lengthy IEPs that really aren’t individual, the way writing is taught, the rapid “diagnosing of ADHD, calling dyslexia a medical...
