What are the major causes of Learning Disabilities? About 85 to 90 percent of learning difficulties are due to poor underlying learning skills. These skills include: Attention/Concentration: the ability to stay on task or ignore distractions. For example, continuing to read a book while another group is in a discussion. Phonetic awareness: the ability [...]
04
Aug
P3 Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them
This week we discuss what to do if you do not know how to help your child with the subject matter causing stress. For example, with math, you may be a math wiz but your child's school is teaching math a totally different way than how you learned math. To add to this complexity, your [...]
04
Aug
P3 Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them
This week we discuss what to do if you do not know how to help your child with the subject matter causing stress. For example, with math, you may be a math wiz but your child's school is teaching math a totally different way than how you learned math. To add to this complexity, your [...]
28
Jul
P2 Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them
Last week I gave you some ideas for those families in crisis mode with dealing with homework meltdowns. The number one takeaway from last week is to be proactive, manage crisis situations and get your child's emotions down and under control. Your child most likely will not be able to tell why they cannot do [...]
21
Jul
Back-to-School Homework Meltdowns and How to Overcome Them
Well, it is almost back-to-school for our children. Some schools will be opening doors in August across our country. Others will start after Labor Day. The one thing they all have in common is homework. For those students who do get homework, this can be the most stressful time of the day. For families dealing [...]
04
Jan
Learning Difficulties are Hard to Understand
When your child has learning difficulties it can be hard for you to understand. The main reason for this is because; you don’t have a learning problem so you don’t understand what your child is going through. Not understanding is the worst thing you can go through with this problem. Teaching yourself how to [...]
05
Dec
11 Behavioral Similarities Between ADHD and Auditory Processing Disorder
ADHD is so readily diagnosed in many children today. However, clinicians are in a continual debate about the overlapping symptoms of ADHD and Auditory Processing Disorder. There is growing concern that some children are being treated with stimulants when what they really need is auditory skill strengthening. According to Dr. David D. Nowell, Ph.D: Clinical [...]
23
Oct
7 Differences Between Tutoring and The Student Transformation System
Tutoring (Similar to Sylvan and Huntington) Brain Training using The Student Transformation System additional academic instruction to help a student improve grades in school intensive, specialized training program designed to make learning easier and more efficient increases subject knowledge and related general knowledge improves the brain’s ability to process information in any academic subject helps [...]
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