by jenny | Nov 8, 2021 | Executive Functioning
What is response inhibition? This crucial executive function is the ability to think before taking action. Young children can be impulsive and rely on caring adults to guide them and role-model response inhibition. For example, they might just step out into the road...
by jenny | Oct 13, 2021 | Academic
Reading decoding is the key to recognizing known words, then using that knowledge of familiar letters and sounds to quickly determine what new words say, when seeing them for the first time. It is an important indicator for diagnosing dyslexia, as people with dyslexia...
by jenny | Sep 17, 2021 | Additional Blogs & More
How many of these statements resonate with you? I am concerned about an increase in the number of referrals for special education assessments. Our school / district still has a backlog of assessments from the 2020-2021 school year. There are a lot of...
by jenny | Sep 17, 2021 | Additional Blogs & More
There are many tools that school psychologists can use to help determine eligibility for special education as well as gather information on the whole child to support parents, teachers, and other caregivers in a child’s learning...
by jenny | Aug 3, 2021 | Additional Blogs & More
Beyond the Basic Battery: Digging Deeper with the Woodcock-Johnson® IV Tests of Cognitive Abilities Many school psychologists have their favorite assessment battery. If they are assessing a student with a suspected learning disability in reading, they likely...
