Fall Activities That Build Your Child’s Academic Skills by Dr. Emily Levy, Founder & Director, EBL Coaching


Fall is a festive time of year, filled with colorful leaves, pumpkin flavors, apple cider, and candy corn. It is also a great season for learning! Help your child develop stronger reading, writing, and math skills with the fall-themed activities detailed below. Reading Rhyming Your child can develop stronger phonemic awareness skills - a ...

Tips to Help Your Child Get a Positive Jumpstart on the School Year by Dr. Emily Levy, Founder & Director, EBL Coaching


Summer is a time for fun in the sun, relaxing days, and outdoor play. Yet the school year is just around the corner and many children have trouble with the transition from a laid back summer to a more structured fall. Try some of the ideas below to help your ...

Tips to Help Your Child Love Reading by Dr. Emily Levy, Founder & Director, EBL Coaching


[caption id="attachment_32688" align="alignleft" width="200"] .[/caption] Reading is one of the most important skills for success in school. When students read regularly, they tend to perform better academically and demonstrate stronger comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and writing skills - skills that affect nearly all aspects of school. For some children, the idea ...

Special Kid to Super Kid by Ruthangela Bernadette (Book Excerpt)


The 10 Secrets of Unleashing Your Child’s Superpowers Hey, Ruthangela, it’s your future self here. How’s it going? I bet you’re wondering why I’ve contacted you out of the blue like this. Well, it’s pretty simple, you sent me. Your future self wanted you to know a few things that you ...

GUEST BLOG POST: Flipsides by Annette Herfkens, Later Mom and Author, Turbulence (Book Excerpt)


Once upon a time, I wanted to go see my fiancé in Vietnam. I had to postpone the trip. Unlucky.I went one month later. Via Hong Kong. Uncharacteristically, I did not miss my flight, even though it left two hours earlier than planned. Lucky. If I had missed it, I ...

Book Reviews: ADHD Titles & Giveaways by Robin Gorman Newman


If you are parenting an ADHD child, as I am, and especially as they start to get older and understand more about how their bodies feel and are able to express, having them read books that offer explanation and also engage and amuse are great finds. I'd like to share ...

GUEST BLOG POST: Preconception Health Tips by Dr. Robert Melillo, author, Autism


Just two decades ago, the likelihood of having a child with autism was 1 in 10,000. Today it is 1 in 88. No wonder doctors are now calling the rise in autism a public health emergency. Yet when it comes to tackling this difficult issue, it seems that most people are ...

Autism Awareness Month


An Interview with Debra Hosseini on her book - The Art of Autism:  Shifting Perceptions By Amy Wall Lerman Last year, I came across a book called Artism:  The Art of Autism: Shattering Myths about Those Living on the Spectrum by Debra Hosseini - an eye-opening collection of work by artists ...