Last week we sat together with dysgraphia. This week I want to take you one step further out, to the children whose ideas are rich and whose writing still will not come. That is written language disorder. This time I am going to do more than tell you about it. I am going to show you, and have you...

Sally came home in tears from school again. When her mom asked her why, she replied: "My teacher made me stay in from recess to redo my work because she said she couldn't read it. But I had tried my best to get it all done before recess. I can either write neatly and not get done on time, or I ca...

Every week in elementary school, the routine was the same. The teacher wrote the week's spelling words on the whiteboard, and each child copied the list, tucked it into a folder, and brought it home. Simple enough. Practice all week, test on Friday. For my son (name withheld for privacy), it was ...

When a child avoids just one subject, he is telling you something. Homework goes fine. Reading, done. Spelling, done. Then you slide the math worksheet across the table, and the whole evening changes. He slumps. He wanders off. He sharpens a pencil for five minutes. Suddenly he is exhausted, or s...

Introducing my new newsletter, Beyond The Label Do you ever want just a quick strategy to help your child get through the day, or even  the next hour? That is going to be the focus of this newsletter. One useful idea at a time — nothing overwhelming, nothing you need a degree to understand — that...

 It didn't stop working. It got put away     I want to tell you about a small moment in my office that I have seen more times than I can count. A mom came in worn out. A few weeks earlier, she and I had set up a simple visual schedule for her child, a row of pictures showing how the day would go...