by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Oct 9, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
A dad came in this week to talk about his struggling 8 year old, Anna, who just started third grade. Anna has reading fluency issues, with particular difficulty managing words that are “low frequency.” Even in this early part of the school year Anna is welling up...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Sep 19, 2014 | Modern Childhood
By the upper elementary school grades, parents are given the message from the school that their child needs to do school work on his or her own without the parental support that was offered in previous grades. For many children, that’s exactly what should be...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jul 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I ask parents of children who are struggling with reading what is being done to correct the problem, I frequently hear something like, “he’s getting in-class support.” When pressed further to explain what remedial method is being used, I usually don’t get much...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jun 13, 2014 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
Writing rubrics are familiar to most parents these days. The rubrics are the criteria used to assess a range of writing skills for a child. Here’s a writing rubric that was handed to me recently for David, a child who I was going to assess. On a four scale rubric,...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | May 30, 2014 | Dyslexia/Reading & Learning Disabilities
A mom came in this week to talk about young Caroline, age 7, a second grader. The mom had a stack of material to show me. There was the math worksheet filled with word problems with the red 34% at the top of the page, with all kinds of ‘X’ marks throughout....
