J.D. Michaels

J.D. Michaels A.K.A. Monika C. Csankovszky, graduated from the University of Windsor Ontario Canada, with a double major in Biology and Psychology. Michaels continued with her postgraduate education in the University of Windsor, focusing on Clinical Psychology with a heavy emphasis on Developmental and Educational Psychology. Michaels’ works significantly relied on other fields such as neuroscience, often involving standardised testing to find information about children’s learning skills and abilities.

Michaels’ insight enabled her to gain a unique understanding on how children learned and processed information. She has done this by utilizing different strategies to facilitate a growth experience that is both natural and gratifying, all the while, building powerful bonds between children and their parent/educator.

Throughout her career, Michaels’ passion for Educational and Developmental Psychology only grew. Along with her education, motherhood has also gifted her with an inimitable understanding and insight, to identify strengths and weaknesses not only in children, but also in different parental strategies as well.

While her teaching tactics are mainly focusing on classical behavioural approach, Michaels, also subtly utilizes aspects and concepts from Eye Movement Desensitization and Rehabilitation therapy. This combination allows children to grow and learn at an exceptional rate! This unique fusion may also be helpful to both parents and children that deal with learning related anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, depression, bipolar disorders, ADHD and general performance anxiety related stresses. This subtlety used method, allows parents/educators to tap into their children’s exceptional resources, thus giving the flexibility to personalize and build “unique-to-child” strategies, that will overcome children’s challenges and vastly improve their performances.

The books and educational materials created by Michaels, are carefully orchestrated to draw children into an irresistible world of knowledge. With masterfully spun stories, rhymes, poems, and carefully selected and color coordinated illustrations, Michaels was able to masterfully manipulate and coax brilliant learning moments into existence: allowing for an easy and natural development of lifelong skills.