by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2015 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
Open-ended writing can be dreadfully difficult for school-struggling children. Many kids, especially in the early grades, find the task of writing to be overwhelming on a variety of levels. Typically, schools recommend occupational therapy (OT) to address the issue....
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Jun 12, 2015 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
To finish out the week, I am going to make a simplistic point, but one that I think is often forgotten. Development rules. To illustrate, let’s forget disabilities for second. Let’s say your 7 year old is one of those Science Channel kids who knows everything about...
by Richard Selznick Ph.D. | Mar 6, 2015 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
When children struggle with written expression, “OT,” or Occupational Therapy appears to be the go to recommendation that is often given. Writing has been shown to be the single most complex skill domain of the academic process. The following quote from...
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. | Feb 15, 2012 | Writing Difficulty-Dysgraphia
I’m not sure what’s going on out there, but more and more I hear parents say that when their child (typically a boy) is resistant to school, the resistance is linked to anguish (hatred) of performing any type of writing. Writing is...
