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Our Explanations & Theories of Struggling Children

While meeting with parents to discuss the concerns they have regarding their  children’s struggling, numerous theories and explanations are often offered as to why children do what they do. Typically, the theories are linked to medical explanations or what I refer to...

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Getting a Roadmap

When it comes to their  children struggling with reading, parents could use some road maps. An “old-school” concept  not discussed much anymore, but that is still quite relevant has to do with the “stages of reading development.” The stages provide a type of road map,...

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Feeling the Twinge

Sometimes I can feel the twinge coming on.  It usually occurs when I hear the misinformation parents are given from schools or have heard through the grapevine. Here’s a small sampling of what parents are frequently told regarding dyslexia: “Well, we really don’t know...

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“Just Use Spell Check”

Let’s say your 12-year-old sixth grader, spells the following words: bref  (brief) susess  (success) edcccate  (educate) resolt  (result) kicten  (kitchen Then he writes the following story to a picture prompt:           “Once a o pon a time there was a kid that was a...

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