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Questions of an Assessment – Part I

In this day and age of ready information at your fingertips, what I find is that parents are frequently armed with confused notions or misinformation that they’ve gotten from all kinds of sources. For example, there frequently is a great deal of confusion or misguided...

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Practicing an Academy

It may not be the best time of the year to start one, but right after the New Year, how about you try an “Academy” with your child. Some time ago I went to a training given by the psychologist Ray Levy who talked about the use of “Academies” to address challenging...

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Part II: Ryan & His “Quasi-ADHD

Last week we talked about Ryan and his “Quasi-ADHD,” inspired by a by 7th grader I had recently met who had been previously diagnosed with ADHD (see Ryan & His Quasi ADD). Ryan was “diagnosed” following an interview with his mom and the completion of a checklist...

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Ryan & His “Quasi-ADD” – Part I

Over the last couple of decades ADHD (commonly referred to as “ADD") seems to be pretty casually diagnosed from all I can tell.  It doesn’t take much to get “diagnosed.” The parent fills out a rating scale, which usually comes up positive for things like distractible...

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“Almost Heaven…”

                                                                                          "Almost heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River"                                                                                                            ...

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