(Incentives) The Clinic For Emotional Wellness - Know More About Psycho Educational Assessment For Kids
No commentsBy Toan Dinh
If your child is suspected of having a learning disability or other challenge such as a language processing difficulty, an assessment is likely one of the first steps in dealing with the underlying issue or issues. Now that a new school year has started, parents may be seeing signals that things are not going well. Often, certain behaviours such as signs of stress, depression, anxiety, or unwillingness to go to school are strong indicators of underlying learning problems. Whenever a child exhibits these or other warning signs, parents need to assure their children that they have love and support and at the same time quickly begin the process to get to the root of the childs problem.
This often begins with a doctors visit to ensure that there are no physiological problems as well as discussions at the school with the teacher and perhaps the principal. If a psychological assessment is recommended, the earlier the assessment is done the better, and be aware that your child may face a long wait for an assessment through the school system.
According to the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada (LDAC), the assessment is to find out if indeed the child has learning disabilities, what the childs strengths and needs are and what supports are needed; all of these components are essential and a full understanding may require a battery of tests.
Keep in mind that your child may be experiencing anxiety, anger, and/or depression, and you need to be supportive and understanding of how all these feelings may affect your childs performance. By preparing your child for psycho educational testing, you can reduce anxiety and encourage cooperation through the upcoming tests. Reassure the child that the reason for the testing is to understand why school is a struggle despite hard work and attempts to do well. Explain that the tests will have a variety of questions, puzzles, drawings, stories, and games; reassure the child that the tests will not hurt them and let him or her know that you will be nearby. Be open and honest as much as possible.
Learning disabilities in Canada are common; according to LDAC, about 1 in 10 kids have a learning disability. A learning disability does not mean diminished intellectual capability. In fact, those with learning disabilities have average to above-average intelligence, and many are gifted. Some very famous people have dealt very successfully with learning disabilities, including Albert Einstein, Virginia Woolf and Nelson Rockefeller.
If you would like more information, or you would like to have your child assessed, The Clinic For Emotional Wellness offers many services which can be beneficial to you and your family. Contact us Today! Clients ranging from children through adults are welcome to The Clinics office located at 9983 Keele Street, in Vaughan, Ontario no referral is necessary and anyone calling the Clinic can speak with a Registered Social Worker at no cost.
For more information, visit www.TheClinicForEmotionalWellness.com
The Clinic for Emotional Wellness is a private mental health clinic providing counseling and treatment for a range of disorders, mental illness and related conditions. For more information, visit TheClinicForEmotionalWellness.com
5 Reasons Why Wikipedia is a Good Teaching Tool
By kelliew
Every once in a while, we here our students cite great facts or topics from relevant websites or blogs. Im sure youve heard Wikipedia being mentioned every now and then.
For those of you who havent visited the site yet, Wikipedia is:
A free multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning quick) and encyclopedia. Wikipedias 12 million articles (2.8 million in the English Wikipedia) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet.
So instead of the traditional large volumes of books you previously had in your shelf, the creators of Wikipedia have developed a system where a community of trusted editors (volunteers) works on informative articles on any available subject.
You might be thinking of adding this website as a magic wand in your teaching career and helping you with certain topics that textbooks may not have yet covered. But youre also probably thinking is it worth the try? Well, it certainly is.
Im not suggesting you consider Wikipedia as your sole source of information but as a valuable supplement.
Here are top 5 reasons why you should have Wikipedia as a good teaching tool:
Collaboration of Trusted Editors : There is a strict policy on editorial process for Wikipedia considering the fact that its an encyclopedia which is available for editing anonymously. But according to Wikipedia: Each entry in Wikipedia must be about a topic that is encyclopedic and thus is worthy of inclusion. A topic is deemed encyclopedic if it is notable in the Wikipedia jargon; i.e., if it has received significant coverage in secondary reliable sources (i.e., mainstream media or major academic journals) that are independent of the subject of the topic. With that in mind, you can expect topics and articles presented on Wikipedia to have that trusted credibility.
Selections of Languages : There are about 246 languages supported by Wikipedia. So if you want to have information to be derived in a non-English native language, the left Languages sidebar should help you translate in just one click.
Effective Search Engine : It may not be as competitive as Google, but Wikipedias search does have some useful results. For example if you search for teaching, aside from the article about teaching itself it also gives you: For university teachers, see professor. For extra-help teachers, see tutor. For Parapros, see Paraprofessional educator. These give you versatility when researching a topic and expand to other subjects of interest.
Notes and References to Different Sources : This is one of my favourite features in Wikipedia. At the bottom of each article you will have dozens or even hundreds of notes and references to the subject. These references could be from cited websites, online documents, newsletters, videos, etc.
Revision History : Although this feature doesnt get visits often, but it does help to know the timeline of revisions done to the article on the History section of Wikipedia. Especially for articles and topics which get updated or modified by certain events or other related facts.
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