Selecting a Program to Teach Keyboarding to Young Children
Many children who come to our clinic struggle with poor handwriting issues. We have a successful handwriting program and many children demonstrate great improvement after receiving this treatment…
“He can read just fine – he just can’t RETAIN it!”
The title reads “Not all reading disabilities are dyslexia”. It certainly caught my eye. Plenty of the students we see can read the words just fine. They can spell anything. What they can’t do is understand what they are reading…
Dysgraphia – Part 4
We’ve looked at three reasons why writing skills don’t develop as they should. Remember Tim, the first grader who struggled to process spatial information so he “melted down” over tasks that required writing on paper? Then there was Sophie. She had a phonological processing deficit, or dyslexia, that made spelling accuracy a “hit or miss” proposition…
Dysgraphia – Part 3
Dysgraphia – “difficulty writing”. Remember Tim and Sophie? Tim was the first grader with the visual-spatial processing deficit making it hard for him to write legibly, and Sophie was the 4th grader with dyslexia who couldn’t spell very well so “hated” to write…
Dysgraphia – Part 2
Remember Tim? He’s the little first grader with a visual-spatial processing deficit making it hard for him to develop writing skills. He had a form of dysgraphia – difficulty writing. In this article I want to describe another child with a form of dysgraphia. Sophie was in 4th grade when we started working with her. She was behind in reading and “hated to write”…
Dysgraphia – Part 1
Does your child struggle with writing? Do you suspect she has dysgraphia? There are several reasons why children fail to develop good writing skills, and it might take a little digging to figure out which one is giving your child fits when it comes to getting her thoughts down on paper…
Learned Helplessness
When we receive calls from parents, we frequently hear them telling us not only about their child’s struggle with academic performance, but also their emotional struggles in the classroom. Frequently comments are made like, “He’s lazy”, or “He is just not trying hard enough.”…
Parental Concerns About Social Skills
Parents often voice concerns about their child’s social skills. One mother described her 7-year-old son as very out-going and social, but he only plays with children several years younger than he is. One father watched his daughter try to socialize with other girls at church but described her interactions as “immature and inappropriate” for her age…
What Homework Time Should Be Like
Everybody with kids in school is back to the homework–dare I call it “grind”? You’ve probably seen a bujillion articles on how to facilitate your child’s homework — Things like:
Set up a special spot –OR– Change up the spot a lot…