Dr. A Jordan Wright, Ph.D., ABAP, Faculty and Director, Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing New York University, specializes in psychological assessment (including learning disabilities and ADHD) and is the author of five books on psychological assessment, discusses online neuropsychological assessments. He answers common questions about …

Dr. Jane Aronson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, Director of International Pediatric Health Services, PLLC, Founder and former CEO of Worldwide Orphans 1997-2019, and Director of Global Behavioral Health Network for Children and Young People, who is also known internationally as the Orphan Doctor, reflects on …

Dr. Jan Wasowicz is an ASHA-certified, IL-licensed, and FL-licensed speech-language pathologist with 35+ years of experience as a language, literacy, and learning specialist working with students who have language-based reading, writing, and spelling difficulties and disorders. She has taught numerous university-level courses and is frequently invi…

Academy Award winner, Peggy Stern, who produces and directs documentaries, who struggled with dyslexia as a child, discusses how she created SuperDville, a media channel for students 7-12 years of age with dyslexia and learning issues. The SuperDville curriculum was developed by seminal researchers, therapists, and educators, and stars actual stude…

Kaity Broadbent, Head of Learning from Prenda, discusses micro-schooling! Kaity is an ardent believer in equity and Prenda's approach to learning. Prenda believes students of different ages can learn collaboratively at their own pace. Flexibility helps students learn through fun engaging activities. Finding each child's internal drive, allowing aut…

Preetika Mukherjee, who grew up in India, is a pediatric neuropsychologist in private practice in New York City. She specializes in neuropsychological evaluations of children and adolescents. In India, she received her master's in Applied Clinical Psychology. Knowing that she wanted to advance her studies in understanding human behavior, she studie…

Due to a sudden pandemic, a new set of online social norms are being established between educators/therapists and their students/clients. Netiquette is acceptable online behaviors within a network of individuals. Sharon Baum, a NY licensed speech-language pathologist, explains netiquette and its connection to social-emotional learning while virtual…

Patty is a Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn resident, mother of three girls, helps her hustler husband run one of their local businesses, a restaurant, and is the Math Department Head at a Manhattan public school, The Institute for Collaborative Education, 6th-12th grades. Come learn about progressive education, portfolio-based approaches, and how to enco…

James, a Brooklyn middle school student, discusses his first week of all remote learning from the comfort of his home. Come learn what James enjoys about his online learning setup, what he misses from being physically at school, and what he predicts will happen to his online curriculum as the school year progresses. He also offers several suggestio…

Fara Jones, MA, LCSW is a Psychotherapist and Creative Arts Therapist. During this podcast, she discusses how the pandemic is impacting our mental health and provides suggestions for how to best care for ourselves. COVID-19 is best understood through understanding the stages of grief. Acceptance helps us deal with loss. We need to learn to adapt to…

Language is all about being able to communicate expressively and effectively not only through sounds but also through listening, reading, and writing. And for many children who struggle with language, this can lead to further issues with literacy, such as learning to write as well as peers. Watch this video with Dr. Anthony Koutsoftas, Ph.D., CCC-S…

Lavinia Mancuso, native New Yorker, teacher, principal, and currently Executive Director of Everyone Reading, joins us to discuss her favorite topic- literacy! She explains why students are still illiterate in the US, and how we can solve this problem. Here are some of her tips: Parents and teachers must teach the five pillars of literacy and tackl…

In many instances, learning disabilities are invisible. What many consider as typical behaviors, such as acting out or lack of focus, could turn out to be warning signs of underlying learning or attention difficulties. We have seen parents get caught off-guard when their child is diagnosed with a learning disability, and the process of seeking assi…

Hearing your child talk for the first time is one of the most magical moments of parenthood. In this episode of the Craig Selinger Podcast, Dr. Michelle Macroy-Higgins, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, speech-language pathologist and associate professor of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Program at Hunter College, New York, talks about how to diagnose a…

In this episode of the Craig Selinger Podcast, Micaela Bracamonte, founder of the first 2e (Twice Exceptional) friendly school in New York City talks about how The Lang School started sixteen years ago when her son was diagnosed as 2e at the age of four. She discusses the evolution of the Lang School and how it incorporates social-emotional learnin…

Dr. Deara Espinoza, author of Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere!, discusses five ways to engage students, based on her doctorate research at the University of Southern California - Los Angeles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/craig-selinger7/support