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Interview With Kelli Sandman Hurley – “Dyslexia Advocate: How to Advocate for a Child with Dyslexia within the Public Education System”

by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jan 7, 2021 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities

[podcast_episode episode=”5368″ content=”player”] In this latest installment, we talk with Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D. regarding her book, “Dyslexia Advocate: How to Advocate for a Child with Dyslexia within the Public Education...

Dyslexia – Labeling or Describing

by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Oct 1, 2017 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities

“Identifying a label for student’s type of learning disability is not the key issue.  Use of the label dyslexia may not even be necessary.  Describing the phenomena observed in the child should be the goal of the diagnostic assessment, especially in an area as muddled...

The Decade of Dyslexia

by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 21, 2016 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities

Every decade has a new emphasis.  In the mid 1970’s “learning disability” was a scalding hot term.  Following the 1970s, ADHD was the topic of the decade.  This was followed by autism (or children “on the spectrum”). We are now in the decade of...

“Evidenced Based?” What about unmotivating?

by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 18, 2016 | School/Special Education Misc

As a psychologist specializing in dyslexia and learning disabilities, I have always valued and embraced reading instruction that has been referred to as “bottom-up” (skills based) for teaching struggling kids how to decode and read more fluently. Over the years I have...

“Smarts Draining From the Kid’s Ears”

by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 12, 2016 | Modern Childhood

This week I met a real cute, spunky, spirited 7 year old second grader, Noah, who was having the common struggles with reading, spelling and writing. When asked about three wishes he told me, “to be Superman, to fly, and to be able to teleport.” Once he wrote down his...
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