by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 11, 2014 | Parenting Misc
The Parenting Dance That We Do Parents often need help in learning how to communicate with their child. Children with learning disabilities or ADHD can be very frustrating and difficult to manage. Negative and irritable patterns of communication often play out in a...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 28, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
Kids who are struggling feel like they are constantly running up hill while the other kids are on an easy downward slope. In this day and age of Student Growth Percentiles, Common Core and PARCC testing what is the one thing that the struggling kids need...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 21, 2014 | Assessment
Many times a parent (usually the mom) senses that something is amiss with her child and wants to have and evaluation conducted in school. If the child is getting decent grades, the response to the request is often denied. The parent may hear a version of the...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 7, 2014 | Parenting Misc
Change does not come easily for any of us. Think about how deeply ingrained our personalities, habits and proclivities are. Fundamentally, we are who we are. Parents spent a lot of time trying to change children and I sometimes find that their efforts may be a bit too...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 28, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
When parents come in to talk about their kids and why they are struggling there are the common list of factors that are usually discussed. Some of these include: Poor phonemic awareness Limited decoding skills Weak fluency Family predisposition toward dyslexia...
