Ways to Help and Ways Not to Help This is a matter of degrees. If your child’s disorganization is materially impacting grades and progress, consider taking action to build executive function skills. If, however, the disorganization is not to that level, read...
4 Videos That Put You in Your Child’s Shoes You know your child is having difficulties, but are you sure you understand just how much of your child’s day is impacted? I thought I did, but I was wrong. At my son’s first IEP meeting, a teacher recommended I...
From Bad Learning Habits to Self-Directed Learning Procrastination, disorganization, last-minute cramming, skipping words while reading, resisting new concepts, failing to check work, and engaging in negative self-talk. Do any of these bad learning habits describe...
Language Is Not A Strength For Children With APD You’ve heard the conventional wisdom. Learning a foreign language is fantastic for kids. However, that’s not necessarily true for all children. Auditory processing disorder and learning a foreign language do not go well...
5 Learning Diagnosis FAQ, Without the Jargon Your child is not keeping up. You are worried about learning readiness. What to do? Getting a learning diagnosis is traumatic. The terms are scary, and it feels insanely complicated. You have friends who have done it, only...
Recognizing and protecting your child from being bullied at school What do Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Spielberg and Justin Timberlake have in common? They’re all hugely successful, of course. They also each had a reading or learning difficulty at school and have talked...