These days, private schools are having to compete for each and every student enrolled. Oftentimes, families are looking for schools that can provide special services.   Our team has the knowledge and experience to help private school administrators who are interested in providing special services for struggling students. We can help you establish practices and procedures for: Identification of…

Assistive Technology (AT) tools can help accommodate your child or teen’s attention, learning, fine motor coordination, and executive functioning challenges while emphasizing his or her abilities. The use of technology is especially helpful when struggling students can use their strengths to work around their challenges. Assistive technology is defined as any device, equipment, or system…

Difficult classroom behavior is often difficult to manage. “Behavior” as it is used here includes not only over-activity and impulsiveness, but also distractibility and day-dreaming. For example, embarrassing a day-dreaming child in front of his peers is not positive behavior management. Writing comments in red ink on graded assignments like, “Didn’t you pay attention to the instructions in class?” is not positive behavior managment. Instead, consider these alternatives.

Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that is diagnosed based on a specific set of developmental and skill deficits related to reading and spelling.

In this article, Dr. Davenport shares knowledge of dyslexia gained from 13 years at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, one of the nation’s leaders in developing research-based assessment, remediation techniques, and accommodations for children with dyslexia.

Children and teens with executive functioning problems can have difficulty learning and often benefit from an education plan that addresses two specific needs: structuring and flexibility. In this series of articles, Dr. Davenport outlines research based suggestions for actively reading to comprehend details, cause/effect, compare/contrast, and inference.

Students who struggle with weak executive functions and related disorders often have trouble preparing consistently organized written sentences, paragraphs, and narratives. They can benefit from a structured and flexible approach to help develop improved skills. This series of articles outlines how you and your student’s educators can help your struggling child or teen.

In the United States, three federal laws provide for public school services and/or accommodations for eligible students with ADHD, Anxiety, & Mood Disorders.