December 2016 – Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig

“She’ll always be deaf, you know…”

I hear (and see — on social media) this phrase all the time. Parents who choose amplification and listening and spoken language for their children are reminded by not-so-kind strangers, “She’ll always be deaf, you know…”

Ready, Mindset… GROW!

In 1975, psychologist Carol Dweck and her team conducted an experiment with a group of low-performing elementary school aged math students. The students were given a very difficult math assignment. These students had a poor self-concept about their ability to succeed in math and a history of bad grades. The students were given a veryContinue reading “Ready, Mindset… GROW!”