Category Archives: Learning Disabilities

Finally An Educational Program That Conveys Meaningful Academic Benefit

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Janis Arnold

Kids like Aleczander need multi-sensory instruction utilizing Orton-Gillingham time tested methods in order to learn to read and write. In addition to being enrolled in a third grade classroom at a private school, Aleczander was able to attend an after school dyslexia program … Continue reading →

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9.1.17 Third Grade Begins

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Janis Arnold

  9.1.17          Third Grade Begins Aleczander, age 8,  has dyslexia, dysgraphia, and oral motor disfluency, something speech therapists call apraxia. He’s been struggling to learn to read, write and talk like other boys and girls all … Continue reading →

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Aleczander November 2015-May 2017

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Janis Arnold

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 →

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First of All, Do No Harm

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Janis Arnold

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 →

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Multisensory Teaching in Action

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Janis Arnold
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Aleczander’s Communication Skills Midway Through First Grade

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Janis Arnold

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 →

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Some Kids Just Break Your Heart

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Janis Arnold

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 →

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Why Isn’t My Child Talking, Acting, Playing Like Other Children?

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Janis Arnold

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 →

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