FREE CONFERENCE CALL WITH DR. RICHARD SELZNICK,

AUTHOR OF THE SHUT-DOWN LEARNER

When: Tonight, Thursday, February 3, 2011 @ 9 pm EST

Phone number: Call (661) 673-8600

Use Access Code: 899615# (remember the #)

Length: Approximately 1 hour

Professor Selznick is a licensed psychologist, nationally certified school psychologist, university professor of pediatrics, Director of the Cooper Learning Center, Department of Pediatrics, Cooper University Hospital, and author of The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child. In this call, he will discuss shut-down learners and answer your questions about how to motivate discouraged children.

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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities

A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis

What’s wrong with him? In most cases, nothing. Lots of struggling readers resist reading. After years of failure, they expect to fail; they’ve given up, they’re protecting themselves from more failure and embarrassment. From their perspective, resistance is rational. Here’s Dr. Sebastian Wren’s explanation:

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If a struggling reader’s motivation is blocking her reading progress, her motivation must be systematically and knowledgeably evaluated, which tests cannot do. Evaluating motivation and its components shouldn’t be sidestepped, but often is. As Robert Sternberg, a leading expert on intelligence and motivation, so aptly noted, “Motivation is perhaps the indispensable element needed for school success. Without it, the student never even tries to learn.”

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