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Last Sunday on the front page of the New York Times was a major piece on the proponent of “balanced literacy,” offering some type of retreat for the philosophy behind “balanced literacy” that has been espoused for decades having failed […]
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Child A, we’ll call him Leo, a second grader, is in the 10th percentile of reading, spelling and writing. Depending on whether you are a “glass half full or half empty” type you can translate it that Leo is better […]
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Perhaps nothing is more frustrating and resulting in tremendous parental consternation than when they hear the following from me after I’ve done an assessment: “Yes, you were right. The results validate your concerns. Your child has a serious reading (spelling […]
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Parents will come to me loaded with terms that are only partially understood. Let’s look at one of the common ones – “504’s.” I will hear things like, “We just need to get him a ‘504.’ We just want to […]
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Probably not a week goes by where I don’t hear stories of parents frustrated that their struggling child is not receiving any services. At least in New Jersey, this is often because of the child’s overall FSIQ (i.e., Full Scale […]