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Janice 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
I first saw Janice Jeffries when she was twelve. A thin, shy, serious girl with long dark hair, she sat in my waiting room intently reading The Odyssey. She was a gifted child, precociously articulate...
Family Fun Fosters Language Development 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
By: Sara Brown, M.A., CCC-SLP/L Parents and caregivers frequently ask me how they can help encourage the development of their child’s language skills, especially over the summer months when academics...
These ‘Academic Enablers’ Lead to Better Relationships & Achievement 25 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
By: Jaclyn Russo, M.A. A 2005 article in the New York Times entitled No Emotion Left Behind highlighted the importance of bridging academic and social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculums in scho...
Simon: A Scholarship Success Story 25 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
By: Anne Howard, Ph.D. As a clinician and scholarship manager at RNBC, I have the honor of seeing firsthand how our program impacts the lives of the children we serve. Earlier this month, I was a pro...
How To Talk to Camps About Your Child 25 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
By Leslie Baer Cohen, Ph.D. With summer upon us, many parents are actively exploring summer programs for their children. As a child psychologist, one of the more common questions that I hear from pa...
Increase Your Child’s Potential This Summer 29 May 2013 | 01:30 am
By: Terese Burk, M.A. & Jacy Herman, M.S. Rush NeuroBehavioral Center’s Educational Services Department has developed an Executive Functions curriculum based upon organizational strategies that help a...
Finding A Passion 29 May 2013 | 01:30 am
Some children find their passion in the course of the school year: they begin to learn to paint in art class or become fascinated with physics or discover they have an aptitude as distance runners or ...
Changes in the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders 1 May 2013 | 01:30 am
By: Andrea Victor, PhD The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) provides the criteria for diagnosing mental health disorders and is used throughout the medical community by ther...
Understanding ADHD in 2013 1 May 2013 | 01:30 am
In the past ten years the number of children regarded as having ADHD has risen by 53% to more than 6.4 million. In the past five years, sales of stimulant medications have risen from 4 billion to 9 bi...
Q&A: ASD and ADHD Increases 1 May 2013 | 01:30 am
The latest version of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will be released soon, and contains updated criteria that may impact autism spectrum disorder and ADHD diagnoses. Cl...
