by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Oct 17, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Dyslexia – “We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident” I am not pretending here to be the Thomas Jefferson of learning disabilities, but to borrow a phrase from that famous document that he authored (you know the one), where it was said “We hold these truths to be...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Oct 9, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
A dad came in this week to talk about his struggling 8 year old, Anna, who just started third grade. Anna has reading fluency issues, with particular difficulty managing words that are “low frequency.” Even in this early part of the school year Anna is welling up...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Sep 19, 2014 | Modern Childhood
By the upper elementary school grades, parents are given the message from the school that their child needs to do school work on his or her own without the parental support that was offered in previous grades. For many children, that’s exactly what should be...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Sep 12, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
A very common question that parents will ask me of their child who is showing signs of dyslexia is “Why? Where does it come from?” As suggested in International Dyslexia Association definition of dyslexia it states that it is likely to be of “neurobiological origin.”...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2014 | Parenting Misc
This week I glanced at my Twitter page and found that I was at 4,999 total tweets! Over the 5,000 tweets there are themes that emerged that are fairly consistent. These themes were summed up in my book, School Struggles, but I thought they would be nice here as a...
