by Susan Micari, MS.Ed, BCET & Annalisa Perfetto, Ph.D. Maybe you are surveying your class and notice one of your students, a boy or a girl, staring off into space, seeming to sit alone though surrounded by others. They are not quite up on the conversations...
by Susan Micari, MS.Ed., BCET When I think about teaching young adults with NVLD, I sometimes step into a situation that is fraught with past failure, misunderstanding, and frustration on the part of the client and his or her loved ones. We have to work skillfully to...
by Annalisa Perfetto, Ph.D. So you’ve just received a diagnosis that you have Nonverbal Learning Disability, or NVLD. Maybe right now you are feeling shocked; or maybe you had a feeling that something was “off,” and you’re relieved to finally know what it is. The big...
by Susan Micari, MS.Ed., BCET Long ago, in 2003, my mentor sent a beautiful teen-aged boy to my practice who needed help managing his homework and his writing, she told me. I met the family in their home, and the first thing I saw was how exasperated the father of the...
by Susan Micari, MS.Ed., BCET Executive functions are many cognitive processes that combine to help you manage time, materials, and your self-monitoring skills, all to serve the completion of a goal. Examples of executive functions are ability to break a project down...
by Susan Micari, MS.Ed., BCET You may have been recently diagnosed with non-verbal learning disabilities, or been told you are somewhere on the autism spectrum. Perhaps this is news; perhaps you suspected it. Perhaps you know about your issue but don’t know what to do...
by Annalisa Perfetto, Ph.D. ADHD is the name of another neurodevelopmental disorder that is divided into two types: inattentive and hyperactive (though a person may have symptoms of both types). The inattentive strand of ADHD often presents itself with symptoms that...
by Annalisa Perfetto, Ph.D. Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that results in difficulty reading. It is caused by neurobiological factors. Dyslexic individuals may feel that they are not intelligent. This is far from the truth, because the condition of...
by Susan Micari, MS.Ed., BCET S, a 6th grade adopted boy attending an excellent public school, began to work with me last spring the issue that presented itself was decoding uncertainty and poor fluency. S was adopted as an infant from a Central American country, is...
