Evidence-Based Intervention - Tatyana Elleseff

Free Webinar: Evidence Based Executive Functions Interventions for Struggling Learners

Leave a Comment / Dyslexia and Reading Disorders, Evidence-Based Intervention, Executive Functions, Learning Disabilities, Speech Pathology / Tatyana Elleseff / September 30, 2022

On September 29th, 2022, I did a free outreach webinar for Georgia IDA, on the subject of effective evidence-based interventions for children with language disorders who struggle with executive functions as well as concomitant literacy needs. In the webinar, I discussed how to provide effective evidence-based practice (EBP) language and literacy interventions aimed at improving […]

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Free Webinar: The Controversy of the Auditory Processing Disorder Diagnosis

Leave a Comment / Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia and Reading Disorders, Evidence-Based Intervention, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), Learning Disabilities, Special Education Disputes, Speech Pathology / Tatyana Elleseff / March 22, 2022

In June 2021, I did an outreach webinar for Georgia IDA, which reviewed current controversies pertaining to the validity of assessment and treatment of auditory processing disorder (APD). Its major focus was on how this diagnostic label frequently results in professionals discounting true language and literacy deficits in students who require appropriate language and literacy

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Help, Student Tested Average on ALL Standardized Tests but is Still Struggling

Leave a Comment / Discriminant Accuracy, Dyslexia and Reading Disorders, Evidence-Based Intervention, Independent Educational Evaluations (IEEs), Learning Disabilities, Special Education Disputes, Speech Pathology, Standardized Tests / Tatyana Elleseff / March 21, 2022

Recently, there has been an uptick of posts and comments from parents and professionals on social media with the following message: “The student tested average on all standardized tests but still struggles with XYZ deficits characterized by (insert language-based difficulties here). So today, I wanted to delve a little deeper into what it means to

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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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