Jill Stowell is the founder and executive director of the the Stowell Learning Center which helps children and adults with dyslexia, learning disabilities, and other learning and attention challenges. For 30 years, they’ve helped thousands of students with a variety of learning challenges become successful learners.
She is the author of At Wits End A Parent’s Guide to Ending the Struggle, Tears and Turmoil of Learning Disabilities. She has trained hundreds of public and private educators in specialized learning programs and provides consultation and clinical support to a worldwide network of learning centers working to eliminate learning challenges.
In this episode we covers topics like masking children and its effect on learning, partnering with other professionals to unpack root causes of learning challenges, and what we can do to change our approach to trauma in children.
https://youtu.be/PQtY18jtzHs
Show Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:25 Effects of masking children
4:13 The Learning Skills Continuum
11:06 How masks effect learning
14:22 Who Stowell Centers help
16:30 Working with Dyslexia
20:20 The challenge with labels
24:35 Working with other health professionals
37:10 Mental health professionals and Stowell Centers
39:38 Primitive reflexes and learning challenges
53:45 Resources for practitioners working with children
54:58 Testing for visual and auditory processing challenges
1:03:24 Executive function and covid challenges
1:06:32 Connection between executive function & social media addiction
1:11:39 Resources & Connecting with Stowell Learning Center
Resources:
Website: https://www.stowellcenter.com
Phone Number: (877) 774-0444
LD Expert Live with Jill Stowell - YouTube (our weekly broadcast - Tuesdays at 10am Pacific): https://www.youtube.com/c/LDExpert
SLC Mom Squad (our private Facebook Group for parents of kids with learning and attention challenges to find resources and community with other parents who “get it”): https://www.facebook.com/groups/SLCMomSquad
Facebook: @learningdisability - https://www.facebook.com/learningdisability
Instagram: @stowellcenter - http://instagram.com/stowellcenter/
Twitter: @stowellcenter - https://twitter.com/stowellcenter
LinkedIn: @stowell-center - https://www.linkedin.com/company/stowell-center/