There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the assessment process, whether it’s a dyslexia assessment, an executive functioning assessment, or something else. In these columns, Dr. Selznick breaks through the myths and misinformation, giving you simple, concrete steps you can take to help your child.
Here’s some of our top blog posts about the assessment process:
Questions to Ask in an Assessment Part I
Questions to Ask in an Assessment Part II
Ryan and his Quasi-ADHD Part I
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A frustrated mom named Jan, who I spoke to some time ago really reduced things to its basic terms. Discussing her 12 year old sixth grader, Jackson, she went through a list of issues: resistant to homework hates reading frequent […]
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Whenever I do an assessment I know that in many ways I am swimming against the tide in the way that I approach things. Parents are focused on “the diagnosis,” largely supported by the medical model. Such a model embodies […]
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This is a follow up to a recent blog post – “Back in the Zone (of No Zone): Back in the Zone (of No Zone). Parents frequently talk to me about their frustration (insistence) that schools diagnose their child’s dyslexia (or […]
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Today I chatted with parents about their 10 year old fifth grade child, Lianna. Since kindergarten they have watched her struggle. They saw other children in Lianna’s peer group progressing, while she seemed stuck, barely moving forward. Even though they […]
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When a children have a learning disability like dyslexia, typically this impacts their reading fluency, spelling and writing. For those who have been “diagnosed” as ADHD/ADD their central features are distractability, inattentiveness and impulsivity. Quite often children have combined features […]