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Category Archives: Educational Diagnostician
TEACHER, CAN YOU PLAY WITH ME?
Today is April 18, 2020. I’m only marginally stir crazy as Gov. Abbot announced yesterday that Texas will soon reopen for business, although it is beyond infuriating that the DISTRICT is using the Corona virus as its latest reason to … Continue reading
Aleczander November 2015-May 2017
November 2015: I met Aleczander when he was halfway through first grade and his parents asked me to help them figure out what was going so badly wrong for him at the public school. Aleczander’s articulation skills were less than those … Continue reading
First of All, Do No Harm
UPDATE to 8.29.17 post Aleczander, age 7, had been getting speech therapy for his entire first grade school year when this May 2016 language sample was done pro bono by a wonderful speech therapist who used to, but no longer, … Continue reading
Aleczander’s Communication Skills Midway Through First Grade
MIGDAS Preschool Diagnostic Interview 11/3/15 During the MIGDAS diagnostic interview conducted on 11.3.16, Aleczander played appropriately with sensory toys as well as his own familiar and favored toys. He never lined toys up, refused to share, or insisted on performing … Continue reading
Some Kids Just Break Your Heart
This little guy enrolled in one of the two bilingual PreK Classrooms on an Early Childhood Campus and was referred for assessment by his teacher and mother. My play-based early childhood assessment team (educational diagnostician, school nurse, school psychologist, bilingual … Continue reading
Why Isn’t My Child Talking, Acting, Playing Like Other Children?
Why isn’t my child talking yet? Why doesn’t my child play with (or like) other children? These are the two questions that I encounter most frequently when I talk with a concerned parent or preschool teacher. Thus, these are the questions that my … Continue reading