Rates of anxiety and depression among teens in the U.S. have been rising for years. According to one study, nearly one in three adolescents (ages 13-18) now meets the criteria for an anxiety disorder, and in the latest results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 32 percent of teens reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.
Recently my reflections on the gracious death and the beautiful birth of close family members, astonishingly falling on the same day, evoked some poignant teaching memories of guiding young children with their study and ultimate discoveries of the ‘cycles of life’.
Research over the past twenty years, in particular, has cemented the relationship between spoken and written language in the acquisition of literacy. Difficulties underlying the development of literacy in both spoken and written forms, most likely involve one or more of the components, or strands of language…
In the early 1990s I coined the term “Social Thinking” and began creating a teaching/ treatment methodology that is today being used in schools, clinics, and homes across North America and around the world.