Modern Family Matters, a podcast hosted by Steve Altishin, director of client partnerships at Pacific Cascade Legal, interviewed Betsy Hill about the book she co-authored with Roger Stark, Your Child Learns Differently, Now What? The conversation explored he importance of a child’s cognitive readiness to learn, how to identify a child’s cognitive skills, and how co-parents can work together to help their child develop a growth mindset. In this interview, Betsy answered the following frequently asked questions:
Why do we need to know how a child learns?
What are cognitive skills?
How can parents support their children who learn differently?
Why is it especially important for co-parenting families to understand how children learn?
What is the relationship between learning struggles and anxiety/stress?
Are there any learning or intellectual disabilities that don’t respond to building cognitive skills?
How does childhood trauma impact cognitive skills?
