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...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2014 | Parenting Misc
This week I glanced at my Twitter page and found that I was at 4,999 total tweets! Over the 5,000 tweets there are themes that emerged that are fairly consistent. These themes were summed up in my book, School Struggles, but I thought they would be nice here as a...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Apr 1, 2013 | School/Special Education Misc
I recently met parents of a child named Cameron who is showing all of the signs of early school struggling. As parents will often do, they brought in sample of the child’s work. The picture attached to this blog represents all of the worksheets that...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Feb 23, 2013 | ADHD/ADD
There are competing agendas out there within the professional realms that I operate. On one hand there are the parents and the schools trying to get a segment of the population (ADHD boys) to get on track and be connected to the mandated curriculum. Within that...