The Journal
What Is Dyslexia?
Wondering whether your child has dyslexia? Learn what dyslexia is, common signs, why bright children can struggle with reading, how dyslexia is diagnosed, and how effective intervention can help.
What Is Autism?
Wondering whether you or your child may be autistic? Learn what autism is, common characteristics, why autism looks different from person to person, how masking can affect diagnosis, and what happens during an autism evaluation.
Should My Child Be Evaluated for Dyslexia?
Reading shouldn’t require extraordinary effort. Learn common signs of dyslexia, when testing may be appropriate, and how a comprehensive evaluation can help identify the reasons for reading difficulties.
Learning Disabilities: Signs, Testing, and Support
If your child is bright but struggles with reading, writing, or math, you may wonder whether a learning disability is the cause. Learn the signs of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, what else can cause academic difficulties, and when a comprehensive evaluation may be helpful.
What is Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning refers to the mental skills that help us plan, organize, manage time, regulate behavior, remember important information, and complete everyday tasks. Difficulties with executive functioning can affect school, work, relationships, and daily life, even in highly intelligent and motivated individuals.
What is Phonological Dyslexia?
When people think about dyslexia, they often imagine someone who reverses letters or simply reads slowly. In reality, one of the most common patterns involves difficulty connecting sounds to letters, sounding out unfamiliar words, and decoding efficiently. This pattern is often referred to as phonological dyslexia.
Why Autism Is Often Missed in Girls and Women
Autism has historically been identified more often in boys, causing many autistic girls and women to go unrecognized. Learn why autism may be missed and how it can present differently in women.
What Is Dyscalculia?
What is dyscalculia? Learn the signs of this math learning disability, how it differs from simply struggling with math, and how a comprehensive evaluation can identify dyscalculia and guide effective support.
How Do You Know It’s Time to Be Evaluated for ADHD?
Many people spend years wondering why everyday tasks seem harder than they should. If attention, organization, procrastination, forgetfulness, or chronic overwhelm are interfering with daily life, an ADHD evaluation can help clarify what is contributing to these struggles and identify effective supports and strategies.
What Is OCD?
OCD is much more than cleaning and checking. Learn how obsessions and compulsions work, why OCD feels so convincing, and how evidence-based treatment helps people break the cycle.
How Effective Is CBT-I?
Does CBT-I really work? Learn what the research says about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia, why it’s considered the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia, and what you can realistically expect.
What Is ADHD?
Wondering whether ADHD could explain problems with attention, organization, procrastination, or impulsivity? Learn the symptoms of ADHD in children and adults, how ADHD affects daily life, and how comprehensive evaluations help distinguish ADHD from other conditions.
What Are the Three ADHD Presentations?
ADHD does not always look the way people expect. Learn the differences between Predominantly Inattentive, Predominantly Hyperactive-Impulsive, and Combined Presentation ADHD, and why symptoms may change across development.
My Child Refuses Therapy. Can SPACE Still Help?
What happens when a child refuses therapy for OCD or anxiety? Learn how SPACE treatment helps parents reduce accommodation, support change, and move treatment forward even when a child isn’t willing to participate.
Understanding Tinnitus: Why It Happens and Why It Becomes So Distressing
Tinnitus is more than a ringing in your ears. Learn what causes tinnitus, why it becomes so distressing for some people, what treatments are supported by research, and how many people eventually stop noticing it.
What Is Emetophobia?
No one likes to vomit.
For individuals with emetophobia, the fear goes far beyond ordinary dislike or discomfort. The fear can become intense, consuming, and life-altering, affecting daily decisions, eating habits, relationships, travel, parenting, school, work, and physical health.
Emetophobia is a specific phobia involving an intense fear of vomiting. For many people, the fear also extends to seeing others vomit, feeling nauseated, or being exposed to situations associated with illness or vomiting.
Why Is Uncertainty So Hard to Tolerate?
Do you feel like you need to know for sure before you can move on? Learn what intolerance of uncertainty is, why it plays such an important role in anxiety and OCD, and how treatment helps people stop chasing impossible certainty.
Is My Child’s Anxiety Running Our Family?
Is your child’s anxiety beginning to affect your family’s routines, relationships, or daily decisions? Learn how family accommodation develops, why it can unintentionally maintain anxiety and OCD, and how SPACE treatment helps parents respond in supportive, effective ways.
Understanding Psychological and Psychoeducational Testing
Wondering whether psychological or psychoeducational testing is right for you or your child? Learn what these evaluations involve, the questions they can answer, and how comprehensive testing helps clarify learning, attention, emotional, and behavioral concerns.
When AI Becomes Part of the OCD Cycle
AI can be a valuable source of information, but for people with OCD it can also become part of the obsession. Whether it takes the form of reassurance-seeking, compulsive research, rumination, or endless self-analysis, AI can unintentionally reinforce the very cycle people are trying to escape.