Alex I think the gap year programs are highly sort of underutilized. What do you think about the gap year program?  Rana I think the gap year program is right for a lot of kids. I think sometimes parents are...

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Alex I’m joined today by Rana Slosberg. In addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering from New York University, Rana has an independent educational consultant certificate from University of California, Irvine. She established her organization, Slosberg College...

Alex What do you think the future of education looks like for students with anxiety? And how has the global pandemic sort of changed that?  Ellen It’s really hard for me to know exactly how the global pandemic has changed...

Alex Now, you mentioned there the kids with sort of slower processing speeds and results of anxiety with that, and then the kids with higher processing speeds and different forms of anxiety with that. What are the treatments look like?...

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Alex So your other book, Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids, does a deep dive on how psychological testing works and how parents can use it to help their kids. Could you talk about this a little bit? Specifically,...

Alex When our children are struggling with anxiety or managing learning disabilities, it can feel instinctual as parents and caregivers to jump in and fix it, to tell them it’s fine, and to use the skills we have as adults...

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