Esra Simsek

“If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
― Gerald Durrell

“When a child can’t seem to control his behavior, there is a very real possibility that some of his attention controls may not be functioning as they should. That is to say, he is not evil, not a bad boy; he just needs to gain control. If you call someone bad long enough, he is apt to turn bad. Accounting for the behavior as a control issue and pinpointing the control(s) in need of repair can enable a child to determine what he has to do to stay out of trouble. I have seen children’s behavior improve markedly when the adult world has stopped making their actions seem criminal.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

“Reading problems may stem from dysfunctions of phonologic or phonemic awareness, deficient analysis or recognition of visual patterns, active working memory limitations, and/or reduced lexical access. The latter might be part of a much broader memory retrieval or language dysfunction.”
― Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time