Learning Disabilities

With the school year up and running for most students, September is typically the month where parents and students begin to settle in for the year.  Classrooms are established, students’ schedules are solidified, and the novelty of a new school year is wearing off. September is historically the slowest month for me for evaluations.  Since 2018, when I first began offering neuropsychological evaluations, I have consistently seen fewer students in September than any other month of the year.  This is true for ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other learning disabilities. So, does this mean it is a good time for your [...]

About this time last year, I wrote a post outlining five reasons one may consider a virtual neuropsychological or psychoeducational evaluation.  At the time, COVID-19 was still very much disrupting the way we interacted, and schools were faced with tough decisions regarding in-person versus remote learning once again.  For many parents, virtual evaluations still made sense given the continued dominance of COVID-19. Fortunately, we are in a much better place as we enter the 2022-2023 school year.  COVID-19 is under control, and children as young as 6 months are now eligible for a vaccine.  Talk of remote learning has pretty [...]

Well, it’s been a few months since I last posted…and a lot has changed during that time!  Late last spring, I decided to leave my principal job and pursue EdPsyched full-time.  And so far things have been going great!  There is a HUGE need for psychological services in Austin right now, and I’ve been keeping plenty busy conducting neuropsychological evaluations and providing academic mentoring. Another big change over the summer is that unfortunately COVID is back.  It looked like we were almost back to normal earlier this summer, but the delta variant has taken over and thrown a wrench into [...]

Welcome back to our deep dive into IQ and its various components.  Previously we examined Verbal Comprehension and Visual Spatial and what they both have to do with one’s overall intelligence.  Understanding these domains gives us a good insight into an individual’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, which can set a student up for success down the road. In today’s post we will look at Fluid Reasoning.  As a reminder, I am using the WISC-V for my basis of these posts.  The WISC-V is administered to younger students (ages 6-16).  The WAIS-IV is a similar assessment that is used to test [...]