{"id":4514,"date":"2012-06-22T10:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T14:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2012-06-25T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:07:07","slug":"4514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2012\/06\/4514\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling in School Often Linked to Reading\/Writing Deficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/2012\/06\/4514\/0625_selznick_main\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4515\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px;\" title=\"0625_selznick_main\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/0625_selznick_main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a>In his new book, \u201cSchool Struggles: A Guide to Your Shut-Down Learner\u2019s Success,\u201d Dr. Richard Selznick, psychologist and Director of the Cooper Learning Center provides several insights to the complex and multi-layered issues inherent in children who have trouble in traditional classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>One of those insights involves problems with literacy \u2013 reading, writing and spelling \u2013 and the role those play in the child\u2019s attitudes toward school.\u00a0 From the pages of \u201cSchool Struggles:\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of children referred for special education are sent for assessments because of struggling in reading.\u00a0 If this problem could be addressed earlier, through low-cost screenings, great sums of money would be saved through prevention.\u00a0 Research emphasizes early identification and treatment using sensible, structured, direct-instruction methodologies that target skill areas of concern.<\/p>\n<p>Children can be identified as \u201cat risk\u201d for reading (and spelling and writing) at four and five years of age.\u00a0 Too often, though, there is a wait-and-fail mindset.\u00a0 Parents raising issues in kindergarten and first grade are often dismissed as being needlessly worried.\u00a0 The vast majority of children who struggle later and cost school districts a great deal of money could have been identified as at risk in kindergarten and first grade with powerful screening tools that would take approximately fifteen minutes to administer.\u00a0 While screening and identifying children early will not eliminate all of the problems schools face, many children will be placed on the right path and not face the devastating defeat that the wait-and-fail approach yields.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Selznick addresses these and many other characteristics of students who struggle in school in his book, being released July 15 by Sentient Publications.\u00a0 Learn more about unmotivated learners in this and his previous book, \u201cThe Shut-Down Learner,\u201d and at the Cooper Learning Center\u2019s web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/departments-programs\/cooper-learning-center\">http:\/\/www.cooperhealth.org\/departments-programs\/cooper-learning-center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, \u201cSchool Struggles: A Guide to Your Shut-Down Learner\u2019s Success,\u201d Dr. Richard Selznick, psychologist and Director of the Cooper Learning Center provides several insights to the complex and multi-layered issues inherent in children who have trouble in traditional classrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-mmanibo","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-4514","7":"format-standard","8":"category-announcements","9":"category-in-the-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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