SPM and SPM-2 Quick Tips Case Study: What’s Behind Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom?

Lived experience reveals the emotional toll of developmental language disorder (DLD), a lifelong condition that significantly affects mental health. Learn how anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem often arise from daily communication struggles—and what can help.

Discover how autism affects speech and language through traits like alexithymia, echolalia, and hyperlexia. Learn why holistic evaluations and personalized communication strategies are essential for supporting neurodiverse individuals.

Discover a holistic approach to school readiness by exploring the child’s development, school support, and community involvement for academic success. Learn best practices for a successful back-to-school transition.

Discover how smooth transitions from preschool to kindergarten impact children's academic and social skills, based on a recent study in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Explore strategies to ease this critical shift and enhance educational success for young learners.

Explore the dynamic strategies outlined by Chris Rangel, Ed.D., 2022 Texas PTA Elementary Teacher of the Year, as she shares 6 powerful ways school leaders can champion early literacy. From prioritizing essential learning standards to fostering family engagement, discover the key to transformative outcomes in the rapid skill development of young learners.

Explore the challenges faced in ensuring equal educational opportunities for children with disabilities in the United States as WPS sheds light on the Department of Education's recent policy updates.

Place-based SEL can be the strong, firm rope that connects people to each other, to cultural resilience resources—and to the land on which everyone depends.

Despite the clarity of diagnostic criteria, identifying depression in teens isn’t always straightforward. At every age, depression can look different from person to person, with some people experiencing emotional symptoms and others having more physical ones.  

An experienced LCSW shares some common—and some surprising—signs of depression in young people.

Autism characteristics and behaviors can change as people mature. While some or all core features of autism may remain present from early childhood onward, the degree of impairment or the outward appearance of some traits and behaviors may change. Understanding how and when these changes may occur can be helpful to those who support autistic individuals.

Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Risky sexual behavior, substance use, and bullying decrease, but more students experience mental health problems, violence, and suicidal thoughts, according to CDC's Data Summary & Trends Report for its 2011–2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

To diagnose developmental language disorder accurately in girls, researchers say clinicians should work across disciplines to erase gendered language stereotypes. 

As we enter another winter with health experts predicting a “triple-demic” of flu, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), researchers are learning more about how the pandemic has affected students around the world. Here’s an overview of the changes many students are experiencing post-pandemic, and how they could still be affecting assessments and evaluations.