Seeing your child struggle to learn can be a painful experience. This is especially the case if you as a parent struggled in school. All the memories come flashing back. Even if you did not struggle, then observing your own child frustrated when trying to read a...
My severe dyslexia was diagnosed by one of the most prominent psychiatrists in the field of dyslexia in the 70’s and 80’s, Dr. Carl Kline. Dr. Kline diagnosed hundreds of children with dyslexia in his remarkable career. He advocated strongly for teaching sound/symbol...
Several years ago I recall sitting at my office desk reviewing an assessment that our group of psychologists had conducted on a 12-year-old boy. This boy had a severe non-verbal learning disability, which impacted his written output abilities and ability to understand...
Knowledge about learning disabilities and the effects they had on an individual’s personality in the early 1960’s was much different than it is today. Few psychiatrists and psychologists were aware of dyslexia or reading disorders. Children were tested using standard...
Dyslexia and Arrowsmith Program: A Language‐Based Disability That Can Require More Than Just Phonological Awareness Training and/or Phonics Remediation There is no question that early phonological awareness training is critical for children who are learning to read....
