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Under Pressure: Helping Your Child or Teen Cope with School-Related Stress
Too much stress can take a toll on your child’s or teen’s mental and physical health. Read more >>
Teachers are an important part of establishing and maintaining healthy environments for students to learn and grow. Read more >>
Balancing Well-being with Academic Demands
In this Voices of Compassion podcast, we talk with Dr. Pardis Khosravi, Clinical Director and Licensed Psychologist at CHC, about academic pressure and its impact on teens. Tune in to learn how to help your teen thrive both in and Read more >>
10 Hacks to Boost Teens’ Executive Function Skills and Manage Screen Time
Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. In schools, multiple distractions across the classroom create an almost impossible task of staying on topic and Read more >>
Distracted Students? Understanding These 3 Myths of Attention Span Can Help
How many times per day do you check your phone? According to Gloria Mark, psychologist and author of Attention Span, people swipe from screen to screen about 566 times per day, and about half of those switches are self-motivated, meaning Read more >>
6 Ways Educators Can Bolster Boys’ Social Skills
At a time when rates of loneliness are rising among young adults and researchers report that 15- to 24-year-olds spend nearly 70% less time socializing in-person with friends than they did two decades ago, boys face some distinct challenges. Read more >>
Kids have a lot to learn in their first five years of life. They learn to walk, talk, and eventually to start reading. But while kids can pick up walking and talking naturally, they must be taught how to read. Read more >>
7 Strategies to Help Gifted Autistic Students Succeed in College
About 1 out of every 100 students in American public schools has autism. A subset of these students also have academic gifts and talents in a broad range of areas, including math, science, technology, the humanities and the arts. These Read more >>
Teachers: A Pivotal Piece of the ADHD Diagnosis Puzzle
by Pardis Khosravi, PsyD, Clinical Director, Catherine T. Harvey Center for Clinical Services, CHC Next to their parents, who spends the most time with kids? Teachers. Educator, mentor, nurturer, inspiration…teachers play many roles in their students’ lives. They are also Read more >>
My Child Is a Strong Reader But Struggles with Writing. How Can I Help?
by Julie Abbott Olsen, MA, CCC-SLP, Speech and Language Pathologist, CHC Reading and writing are closely related skills, and they often go hand-in-hand— that is, they support each other in language development. However, they are also distinct skills with some Read more >>
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CHC Palo Alto:
650 Clark Way, Palo Alto, CA 94304
650.326.5530
CHC South Bay:
2280 Kenwood Avenue, San Jose, CA 95128
408.831.7512
CHC Ravenswood:
1765 E Bayshore Rd, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
650.702.2487
