This month, the Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper offers tips for parents who have children struggling in school. Director of the Cooper Learning Center Richard Selznick, Ph.D., has extensive experience assessing and treating children with a broad range of learning problems. He has also written about children discouraged with school in his new book, The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child (www.shutdownlearner.com). Dr. Selznick coined the phrase “shut-down learner” to describe children who thrive with hands-on tasks requiring visual and spatial abilities, but who have difficulty mastering core skills such as reading and writing. Read the full story