Manhattan Executive Functioning & Academic Coaching Tutoring Services Our learning specialists and tutors come to your Manhattan home and work with students of all ages (elementary, middle, high school). Our tutoring services include working with students in need of help with language, reading, writing, and math....
Emergency Homework Kit: Quick, Life-Saving Help for School Assignments This guide provides quick, life-saving strategies to help students in middle and high school and college finish homework assignments. There are strategies related to writing papers, studying for tests, completing math homework, writing history papers, reading in...
For many students and parents, however, returning to school can also be a time of great stress. There can be anxiety about making new friends, adjusting to a new school or class, separating from family members, facing expectations of new teachers, not to mention sitting...
An Ancient and Proven Way to Improve Memorization by Austin Frakt, March 24 2016 Reprinted from The New York Times In January, I devoted every walk from my home to the train to the contemplation of work details, hoping to improve my recall of them. That was my...
Why Kids With ADHD and Executive Functioning Issues May Rush Through Homework By Kate Kelly for Understood.org At a Glance Many kids with ADHD rush through homework. Issues with executive functioning are a frequent factor. Rushing leads to sloppy, incorrect or incomplete homework. All kids rush through homework...
On October 23, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) clarified the use of these terms in a Dear Colleague letter. That letter encourages states to remind their districts to use the terms in IEPs, at IEP meetings and in evaluations used in determining eligibility...
Children who have poor executive functioning, including many with ADHD, are more disorganized than other kids. They might take an extraordinarily long time to get dressed or become overwhelmed while doing simple chores around the house. ...
Yes, I Get Extra Time to Take Tests. But No, You Don't Want My Learning Disability. I vividly remember the first time I had to justify getting extra time to take a test. It was my sophomore year of high school, and the other special kids...
Parents Homework Help Causes Math Anxiety From the New York Times, an article about how math-anxious parents can actually harm their children's homework. http://nyti.ms/1MJ42W7...
Researchers at the University of Washington presented findings that suggested that providing the same sort of special educational support for students with dyslexia and students with dysgraphia may not be effective. ...