We’ve all been there. As school psychologists, we know all too well the feeling right before we have to tell a child that she has…
Read MoreDid You See The Memo About…Interventions?
I’m starting a new series on this blog, called “Did You See The Memo?” because there are so many things I have to say in…
Read MoreYou Got Served.
I used to have a math phobia that continued to produce math anxiety dreams well into my 20s. Phobia is a strong word. I’d say…
Read MoreMarch Madness Comes Early This Year
Ha Ha! All you basketball sports fans who googled “March Madness” got to my blog about how grade retention and social promotion decisions have come…
Read More"Strategery"
Many of my posts are about the glamorous side of being a school psych, the fun n’ games dealing with bureaucracy monsters*, and the general…
Read MoreStrategies for Visual-Motor Integration Problems
You would not believe how many people search Google for “visual-motor integration” and stumble upon my blog. Or maybe you would, as visual-motor integration problems…
Read MorePsychoeducational Part VI – Visual Processing
I see a group of fuzzy hairs attached to a medium sized four-legged creature. A large pink object attached to a smaller portion of the…
Read MoreAn Ounce of Prevention costs $2650
Now that it’s summer break, I have time to do those pesky little things that get shoved to the bottom of the to-do list. I…
Read MoreAuditory Processing (Psychoeductional, Part V)
This next post in the series on Psychoeducational Assessments (Background History, Testing Observations, Intelligence/Cognition, and Visual-Motor Integration,) has been extraordinarily daunting for a number of…
Read MorePsychoeducational, not Psycho-Educational—Part III
This post could be an entire blog, book, or career. I will try to do it justice. The cognitive/intelligence portion of the pychoeducational assessment is…
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