Evidence-Based Intervention - Tatyana Elleseff

A Reading Program is NOT Enough: A Deep Dive into the Dyslexia Diagnosis

Leave a Comment / Dyslexia and Reading Disorders, Evidence-Based Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Reading Programs, Special Education Disputes, Speech Pathology, Wilson, Orton Gillingham, Lindamood Bell & Barton Comparisons / Tatyana Elleseff / March 9, 2022

In August 2021, I did an outreach webinar for Georgia IDA which discussed the importance of appropriate language and literacy testing in the remediation of reading-based disabilities. I reviewed current controversies regarding the dyslexia diagnosis, and described the role of language as a contributing factor to reading and writing deficits. But the major focus of […]

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Is “Dyslexia” a Useful Label for Diagnostic and Treatment Purposes?

Leave a Comment / Dyslexia and Reading Disorders, Evidence-Based Intervention, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), Learning Disabilities, Special Education Disputes, Speech Pathology / Tatyana Elleseff / March 6, 2022 / dyslexia, dyslexia assessment, reading disability, reading programs, special education

Last year I administered a comprehensive language and literacy reassessment to a bright 12-year adolescent with persistent reading deficits. When asked to discuss self, he readily offered, ‘I am dyslexic’, when describing some of his self attributes. This took me by surprise a few weeks later, as testing was way underway and I had the

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Why Are My Child’s Test Scores Dropping?

“I just don’t understand,” says a parent bewilderingly, “she’s receiving so many different therapies and tutoring every week, but her scores on educational, speech-language, and psychological tests just keep dropping!” I hear a variation of this comment far too frequently in both my private practice as well as an outpatient school in a hospital setting,

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