Musings of an Urban School Psychologist

A reader on my Fa cebook page asked: "How [do you] ease the anxiety teachers may feel when students are doing well and you are recommen...

Another marvelous guest post, and very timely  since April is Autism Awareness Month! Today, we discuss best practices for Autism evaluation...

As the middle of March hits, if you're like me, you're kind of drowning. March and April are crazy busy months in education, especia...

This was fun the last time I did it , a nice fluffy interlude while I try and wrap my head around some upcoming blog posts! Listening: ...

Since Husband had eye surgery yesterday and Winter Storm Nemo is bearing down on Northeast, I thought today would be an excellent day to sta...

Yesterday, we had a Committee on Special Education meeting on an interesting, and tough, case. Although, if I'm blogging about it, it...

The last week before February break was an uber test-a-thon for me. I was on a mad dash to finish testing four kiddos before the time off, w...

The most common type of learning disabilities I see in my work are verbal learning disabilities , meaning that they affect the way a student...

Now that I've finally finished working summer school, I can enjoy my summer vacation. Granted, I was only working half days, but there...

As the school year is drawing to a close, I'm going to be doing a lot of looking back and making observations on my first year as a scho...

I was supposed to have yet ANOTHER training today, but instead the psychologists were given a reprieve and allowed to return to their buildi...

I've spent 3.5 of the past 6 days in trainings... sitting in a window-less conference room, breathing in 70 other colleagues carbon diox...

Get ready for a Debbie Downer post. Wah waaaahh... (that was the Debbie Downer noise, by the way) We had some rough CSE meetings today. T...

In checking my blog "stats," I discovered that some people have found my blog recently by Googling how school psychologists presen...

I had a tough conversation with one of my buddies yesterday. T is in 5th grade for the second time and is having a lot of trouble. He's ...

After a few serious and informative blog posts, I figured it's time to get back to business. It's time to tell you about Squirmy McA...

In my entry about B , I referred to him as having average IQ. But, what is considered "average"? Brace yourselves, I'm about t...

I'm currently working on a reevaluation of a young man's special education program to see if it is still the right fit for him. B...

I've been exchanging phone calls with M, a psychologist from our Central Committee of Special Education (CSE) building, this week to arr...