Does the clinician have an education in remediation and has she or he ever done remedial reading work with children or adults?
A neuropsychological evaluation will offer recommendations of how to best help the patient overcome his or her weaknesses. If the psychologist has never actually taught anyone to read, the recommendations are based on textbook knowledge and not personal experience, thus tending to be less specific. It is easier to understand how to help a child if one has actually practiced the recommended techniques that are being offered. Furthermore, if the psychologist has remediated children before, she will be able to work closely with a learning specialist or tutor to help the child’s learning process and offer suggestions when needed. I have extensive experience from graduate school, my private practice, and my hospital based practice in teaching pre-reading skills to kindergarteners, reading strategies to children of all ages, and tutoring dyslexic adults. Furthermore, I was the learning specialist at a residential treatment center for three years and I trained their resource room teachers on
