Join Andrew Fuller as he chats with guest Professor Mark Boyes on the socioemotional wellbeing of children with language and literacy difficulties.

  • Mental health assessments may be overlooking key struggles
  • Limited internal dialogue can quietly intensify anxiety and emotional dysregulation in young people facing communication challenges
  • Transition to high school dramatically amplifies the academic and social pressures
  • New intervention approaches are uncovering how teaching the language of emotion can unlock better coping and self-advocacy for vulnerable teens

Listen now below:

Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical Psychologist and Family Therapist, Speaker and Founder of My Learning Strengths

Guest: Professor Mark Boyes, Educational and Developmental Psychology, Curtin University; Co-Lead, Mental Health Research Domain, Curtin enAble Institute, Academic Editor, PeerJ; Editorial Board Member, Dyslexia and Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies

Total time: 28 mins

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