Insights from an Educational Psychologist and mom
Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together: Executive Functioning, Self-Regulation, and Social-Emotional Skills by Melissa Mullin, Ph.D. What do students need so they can effectively plan and complete work? Executive functioning skills, a set of skills that work together to help students … Continued
What can be done this summer to prepare students with executive functioning deficits for the independence that they’re going to have at college? 1. Master an online calendar. Students need to know how to input their schedule, with all … Continued
Language and the ability to share thoughts is a basic skill. Children who have a difficult time with language organization skills miss many opportunities for development and friendships. Language serves many purposes. We use language to share our needs, our … Continued
The most common learning differences affect reading (dyslexia), writing (dysgraphia), math (dysgraphia), and attention (ADHD). While reading, writing and math are the areas where students demonstrate their abilities, it is important to understand the underlying processing skills that enable students … Continued
A concerned mother reached out to me regarding her son’s evaluation results and his writing skills. Her bright son, Max*, has strong verbal comprehension, visual-spatial, and fluid reasoning skills. However, his working memory and processing speed skills are in the … Continued
Reading easily makes reading more fun. People who read effortlessly, following the flow of sentences as they’d be spoken, have mastered reading fluency skills. Building reading fluency is crucial to learning because once the skill of reading is mastered the … Continued
The Domino Dilemma occurs when students start to compensate for a weak processing skill. Over time the compensation skills effectively allow the student to avoid learning the skills they need to become successful. The impact of the compensation begins the domino effect as students become cognitively overloaded.
by Nancy Bley, M.A., Special Education Consultant In recent years there has been a lot learned about how to teach math to all students. This article provides only a short introduction to the exciting and new things going on in … Continued
The goal of reading is to gain information, whether it is what happens to the characters in a story, or learning about the world. Reading fluency is the speed and accuracy of decoding words. Reading comprehension is the ability to … Continued
