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When Students Don’t “Get It”: Is it Auditory Processing Speed, Listening Comprehension, or Slow Retrieval?
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Students who are unable to keep up with orally presented information are often experiencing problems with auditory processing speed. This may be manifested by difficulties simultanenously listening and taking notes, Read more
The Importance of Differentiating Instruction for Success
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Differentiating instruction may be the key to academic success for many students whether they are classified or in the mainstream. The principle behind differentiation is simple: different students process information Read more
Surviving Your Child’s Academic Struggles: The Value of a Neuropsychological Perspective
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

One of the most painful and anxiety inducing experiences parents have to endure is when their child is not making it at school. The realization that something is wrong may Read more
The Impotence Impasse: Surviving Unmotivated and Disaffected Children
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

One of the most difficult challenges for parents, teachers, and therapists is dealing with the unresponsiveness if unmotivated or disaffected children. Impasses develop because there is an absence of connectedness Read more
Executive Function: The Engine that Could
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Everyone is talking about executive function or “executive function disorder” these days to try to explain difficulties their child may be having at school or in life. It is not Read more
Response To the Right Intervention (RTRI): Marrying Neurocognitive Science to RTI
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

In an excellent chapter, “Linking School Neuropsychological with Response to Intervention Models,” in Best Practices in School Psychology, Della Toffalo (2010) asserts that “…educationally relevant cognitive neuropsychological assessment…can and should occur Read more
Emotional Attunement in Teaching and Therapy: Some Things Do Not Change
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

As the fields of education and psychotherapy continue to evolve toward an increasing reliance on “evidence based practices,” it is of equal or even greater importance not to forget that Read more
Summer is Almost Here: A Perfect Time for a Neuropsychological Evaluation
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

If your student has had a difficult year, summer is the time to consider an evaluation to understand the roots of the difficulties and to develop a plan to address Read more
The Importance of Understanding before Doing: Fixing Response to Intervention (RTI)
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Anyone who reads the RTI literature will see the word “fidelity” in the context of implementing interventions. This is, of course, common sense in that any interventions need to be Read more
Peeling Back the Onion: The Value of a Neuropsychological Approach to Assessment
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Neuropsychological assessment has historically been the province of evaluating individuals with some kind of brain trauma. However, in recent decades, the value of understanding cognitive processing skills and executive functions Read more
Let’s Make NJMTSS a Success
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Coming in January, 2018, the state DOE will be pushing out its’ Multi-Tiered Support System (NJMTSS) initiative to bolster efforts to support ALL students. It will be essential to infuse MTSS Read more
Academic Anxiety and Keeping Kids Safe at School
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Feeling safe at school involves much more than providing a physically safe environment. Kids need to feel safe academically as well. Over the last decades, increased academic demands-particularly those that Read more
Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Emotional Communication: A Necessary Marriage
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

While the prevailing evidence in the professional literature is that cognitive behavioral therapy is the gold standard in addressing problems like childhood anxiety disorders, the eminently reasonable principles of exposure Read more
Training Teachers to Understand the Links between Cognitive Abilities and Learning Difficulties
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

Teachers can greatly benefit from the advances in our knowledge about the connections between cognitive processing abilities and instructional strategies. Without this kind of framework to understand students’ learning problems, Read more
Living on the Edge: Emotional Attunement and Working with Kids
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

In the recent movie, “The Edge of Seventeen,” Woody Harrelson plays a teacher who, while eating lunch, finds himself face-to-face with one of his adolescent students who just wanted him to Read more
Screening for Dyslexia: What Dyslexia is and How to Assess It
posted: Oct. 28, 2020.

One of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “Can you perform a dyslexia screening?” While I evaluate children, adolescents, and even adults for the presence of dyslexia, it Read more

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