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		<title>4 Strengths Every Child Must Possess to Comprehend Successfully</title>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>One of the most common concerns that a parent will present to me is their child&#39;s weak comprehension skills.</strong>&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">When we talk together, we cover many areas of concern where each variable plays an important role in impacting their child&#39;s specific challenges.&nbsp; However, in general, I will always review the 4 strengths every child must possess in order to comprehend successfully.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>The first strength, as you can probably guess, is strong cognitive skills</strong>.&nbsp;<span _fck_bookmark="1" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"> </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Strong cognitive skills, in this case, means making sure, <a target="_blank">through assessment</a>, that your child has the skills needed to remember and recall.&nbsp;</span></span><span _fck_bookmark="1" style="display: none;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"> This translates into having the ability to visualize pictures in their head in order to capture the story for retelling.&nbsp; It means making sure your child&#39;s ability to process the words and sounds they are reading without errors so they are reading and &quot;hearing&quot; the correct word.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>Having strong cognitive skills for reading comprehension means making sure your child has several strong foundational strengths.&nbsp; </strong>This means having the ability to attend to the content, can process at a speed necessary so their short-term memory can make sense of the information; your child&#39;s memory areas (visual/auditory/working) are strong and large enough to hold the incoming information for recall and processing and that your child can make sense (understand) of what is being read.&nbsp; Phew, that is a lot to digest.&nbsp; All of these skills lay the foundation for reading comprehension.&nbsp; There are other cognitive skills that play into comprehending well but the above skills are crucial.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>Once your child&#39;s cognitive skills are strong, your child now has the &quot;ability&quot; to comprehend.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp; This still doesn&#39;t mean, necessarily that your child knows how to comprehend yet.&nbsp; That is why my<a target="_blank"> Student Transformation System</a> not only strengthens your child&#39;s ability to learn but also makes sure your child has the basics on how to learn.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>The second strength every child must possess is the ability to decode what is being read.</strong>&nbsp; Your child needs to be secure in sound-to-code and code-to-sound.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; If your child cannot decode a word to read it, most likely they are skipping over it entirely.&nbsp; This alone will leave your child with only parts of the story for recall.&nbsp; Worst case scenario is that the word or words that they skip over or decode incorrectly may be the adjective or verb that is leading to a climax or the main idea of the story.&nbsp; The sentence won&#39;t make a lot of sense with words missing so when your child reaches for the recall, it will be choppy at best.&nbsp; When I work with your child, I make sure they are able to decode/encode successfully. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>The third strength every child needs for successful comprehension is the ability to recognize those words that cannot be decoded through strategy</strong>.&nbsp; Some reading programs have pages and pages and pages of these words which will require your child to have strong memory skills (auditory/visual/working and long-term memory) to retain and recall these words.&nbsp; Processing skills and speed along with attention need to be strong for the memory to be successful.&nbsp; When I work with your child, all these skills are strengthened.&nbsp; I use Master the Code which only has literally one page of words that are exceptions.&nbsp; Once your child has these irregular or sight words integrated into their memory and can recall them, you need to make sure they understand them.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>The fourth strength I always talk about with a parent is the ability to understand language.&nbsp; </strong>Your child&#39;s purpose for reading may start out for entertainment reasons but as he/she gets older the purpose becomes more towards gaining information to learn.&nbsp; Your child needs to be able to read to learn; to gain benefit from the words and content.&nbsp; To be able to do this task, your child needs to understand the language, not just read decode it correctly. &nbsp;</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>Your child&#39;s expressive vocabulary, the words and meanings understood when your child is speaking or writing may be strong.&nbsp;</strong> However, a crucial piece for comprehension is your child&#39;s <em>receptive vocabulary</em> skills. Receptive vocabulary refers to your child&#39;s ability to understand the meaning of the words that are spoken verbally.&nbsp; This counts for the words given to your child when reading content from a teacher&#39;s notes, test questions or when participating in a discussion in class.&nbsp; If your child doesn&#39;t understand the meaning of the word than there is a good chance your child will not know what is being asked by the teacher.&nbsp; This is when your child can answer a literal factual question and get it right but when the data is presented along with words your child is not familiar with then they get the answer wrong.&nbsp; When I work with your child, we work through the first three steps and then touch upon this step using receptive vocabulary interventions.&nbsp; I will assess your child&#39;s receptive vocabulary skills and together we create a road map for success.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong>The above 4 strengths are required for your child to comprehend successfully.&nbsp;</strong> Each step is a small jaunt towards a bigger life-long journey.&nbsp; <a href="https://my.timedriver.com/7DQTH" target="_blank">Set up your free 30 minute consult with me today </a>and we can begin to pinpoint what is sabotaging your child from learning and comprehending.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a year in the classroom with female teachers who say they are anxious about math, girls are more likely to share that attitude &#8212; and score lower on tests, researchers say. January 26, 2010&#124;By Karen Kaplan &#160; &#160; Girls have long embraced the stereotype that they&#39;re not supposed to be good at math. It [...]]]></description>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">After a year in the classroom with female teachers who say they are anxious about math, girls are more likely to share that attitude &#8212; and score lower on tests, researchers say.</span></span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Girls have long embraced the stereotype that they&#39;re not supposed to be good at math. It seems they may be getting the idea from a surprising source &#8212; their female elementary school teachers.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">First- and second-graders whose teachers were anxious about mathematics were more likely to believe that boys are hard-wired for math and that girls are better at reading, a new study has found. What&#39;s more, the girls who bought into that notion scored significantly lower on math tests than their peers who didn&#39;t.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">The gap in test scores was not apparent in the fall when the kids were first tested, but emerged after spending a school year in the classrooms of teachers with math anxiety. That detail convinced researchers that the teachers &#8212; all of them women &#8212; were the culprits.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">&quot;Teachers who are anxious about their own math abilities are translating some of that to their kids,&quot; said University of Chicago psychologist Sian Beilock, who led the study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">The study is the first both to examine the math attitudes of teachers and to show that those feelings can spread to students and undermine their performance, said coauthor Susan C. Levine, also a psychologist at the University of Chicago.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Experts said the findings could have implications for policymakers seeking to draw more women into careers in science, engineering and technology. Instead of focusing their efforts solely on female students, they could devise interventions for teachers as well.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">&quot;We always need more excellent scientists and mathematicians,&quot; said University of Wisconsin psychology professor Janet Shibley Hyde, who examines gender differences in math performance and wasn&#39;t involved in the study. &quot;They are the force that drives the nation&#39;s economy. You don&#39;t want to dismiss 50% of the potential scientists because they&#39;re girls rather than boys. That&#39;s just crazy.&quot;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Beilock and her colleagues recruited seven female teachers from a Midwestern school district and assessed their level of math anxiety &#8212; a condition in which the prospect of doing math evokes unpleasant physiological and emotional responses. Such anxiety is more common among women, but isn&#39;t related to math abilities.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">The researchers also gave math tests to 117 of the teachers&#39; students and assessed their beliefs about math and gender at the beginning and the end of the school year.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;"><strong>So what are learning skills anyway?&nbsp;</strong> Most of us were never taught about these underlying mental skills that lay the foundation for our ability to learn.&nbsp; We were always taught that we could learn if we set our mind to it.&nbsp; </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;"><strong>Between home and school we should be fine.&nbsp;</strong> If not, just see a tutor for a bit and you will be good to go.&nbsp; Unfortunately, not everyone is able to learn in this type of scenario.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Well,<u> </u>how easily and efficiently we learn is based on how strong our underlying learning skills are.&nbsp; This definitely turned out to be the case for my daughter who suffered from a traumatic brain injury at the early age of 11 months. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;"><strong>The skills we use to learn with are technically known as working memory, attention, processing, auditory analysis (including auditory processing), visual processing, word attack and logic and reasoning.</strong>&nbsp; We see these skills play out everyday based on how well we can pay attention, how well we can remember, how well we can process what we hear(we hear fine &#8211; its the processing of the sounds), how well we can process what we see (letter reversals, etc.), how well we can read unknown words (beyond the words we may have memorized) and how well we can plan, organize and problem solve.&nbsp; For each of these learning skills there are sub-categories that exist, too.&nbsp; <br />
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	Lets explore an example of attention as a weak learning skill.&nbsp;</strong> In this example, we have a student is able to attend to one thing at a time only.&nbsp; However, the student will state that they get distracted very easily.&nbsp; After I work them through a series of exercises I can tell whether or not this is truly the case.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;"><strong>9 times out of 10 it is not the case.&nbsp;</strong> You see, students like this one tend to hyperfocus on their targeted input.&nbsp; They zone in on the teacher and everything else around them disappears.&nbsp; So, when an additional task is being introduced that requires processing, they are conflicted because they can only attend to one thing at a time and state they get distracted.&nbsp; In actuality, their &quot;divided attention&quot; skill is very weak along with their ability to process more than one thing at a time.&nbsp; <br />
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	A student with the above weakness will state easy distractability but will also have great difficulty with remembering information coming from different inputs at the same time, especially if one is auditory.</strong>&nbsp; This student is able to take notes and process the input in the brain.&nbsp; However, if the teacher begins &quot;discussing&quot; the topic of the notes on the board, the student is lost.&nbsp; Similarly, if the teacher started to talk first, the student would be able to process this input but once the teachers asks the student to start writing notes along with the teacher speaking, the student would be unsuccessful. They are unable to share processing within the brain.&nbsp; </p>
<p>	<strong>The good news is that the above weak skill is just one of many that you are able to strengthen due to the brain&#39;s ability to develop and grow.</strong>&nbsp; A student doesn&#39;t need to struggle with this weak skill set any longer.&nbsp; </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;"><strong>Science has proved through research that our brains have the ability to strengthen their existing weak skills, build new pathways and strengthen existing connections.&nbsp;</strong> This is life changing news &#8211; it was for my daughter.&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;">My daughter was 10 years old when introduced t brain training, residing in a self-contained 4th grade classroom and trying to learn with the skill level of a 5 year old.&nbsp; </span></strong><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;">Brain training enhanced my daughter&#39;s ability to learn, created new pathways, strengthened her learning skills from mostly a 5 year old up to a 9 year old level in most areas measured.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">Last week, we began to understand what learning skills are and how they impact &nbsp;a student on a daily basis.&nbsp; If you recall, we stated that learning skills are the underlying mental skills formally known as <span style="">attention, visual/auditory processing, memory, processing, word attack and auditory analysis</span>.&nbsp; Most of our children experience these skills through <span style="">reading, writing, spelling, paying attention, remembering, recalling and how quick we can respond to a request.&nbsp; </span></p>
<p>	To continue our discussion around the <span style="">&quot;attention&quot; learning skill</span>, we recall our student from <span style="">last week&#39;s example</span> was having trouble paying attention to more than one thing at a time.&nbsp; We said our student had <span style="">weak divided attention</span> and in our example, this student also displayed weak ability to process more than one item at a time.&nbsp; There are definite exercises to work our student through from last week that will strengthen the weaknesses cited.&nbsp; Divided attention can be identified, measured and strengthened.</p>
<p>	<span style="">This week, we will talk about selective attention</span> and cite an example.&nbsp; Selective attention is the skill that enables us to literally <span style="">choose what we will pay attention to</span>.&nbsp; We can still take in everything in our visual span but we only &quot;select&quot; one thing at a time to pay attention to.&nbsp; Let&#39;s begin.</p>
<p>	<span style="">Mike is a 10th grade </span>student in his local public school district where the number of students in his <span style="">science classroom is now approaching 28 fellow peers, </span>thanks to school budget issues.&nbsp; The <span style="">teacher is a bit overworked </span>and underpaid, the students in the class are a good mix of high performers, middle of the road workers and average to slightly below average students.&nbsp; The <span style="">student population</span> just happens to be <span style="">mostly young ladies</span> and only a few young men.&nbsp; &nbsp;Mike is the pick of crop according to the young ladies in his class.&nbsp; The few males in the class cling to Mike for dear life to try and survive the uneven balance of gender population.&nbsp; They also see Mike as their leader because he presents so cool and collective. &nbsp;&nbsp;This semester the class is <span style="">exploring Human Biology.</span></p>
<p>	A typical <span style="">class scenario</span> in his science class is <span style="">Mike arrives</span> and the <span style="">girls swarm</span> to him.&nbsp; The remaining <span style="">males follow</span> along and hope for some attention.&nbsp; The teacher tries her best to gain control, separate the students and get everyone organized and focused.&nbsp; The <span style="">teacher begins</span> first with<span style=""> lecture to prep </span>and gain interest in what will be a long <span style="">&quot;lecture&quot; with visuals on basic genetics and chromosomes.</span>&nbsp; Yawn &#8230; is what Mike begins to hear himself think.&nbsp; However, <span style="">Mike needs this class</span> and a good grade too because he thinks he <span style="">may pursue science as a career</span>.&nbsp; He knows <span style="">he cannot afford to drift off </span>and lose track of the discussion.&nbsp; In order to be successful, Mike needs to pull away from his friends, his fellow peers, stop the internal thoughts about the discussion that was just occurring and quiet his overall mind to begin focusing on the teacher. &nbsp; </p>
<p>	<span style="">Mike engages his selective attention</span> and literally blocks out the noise in the classroom.&nbsp; The <span style="">girls giggling, the guys whispering, the pencils falling, the teacher coughing, the students walking by the room in the hallway </span>are just a few <span style="">distractions that Mike chooses not to attend to</span> with his focus.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mike&#39;s <span style="">prefrontal cortex</span> has just kicked into gear.&nbsp;&nbsp; This <span style="">area of the brain decides what will receive attention, which cognitive resources will be used to analyze the incoming information and which distractions will be eliminated.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; Lucky for Mike, <span style="">his selective attention skills are strong</span> and he is able to focus on the teacher speaking, ignore the distractions around himself and his classroom and process the incoming information that will be on the next test.&nbsp; Not many students are as lucky as Mike and find it very difficult to block out distractions.</p>
<p>	</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4&amp;NR=1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">TRY A SELECTIVE ATTENTION TEST YOURSELF DIRECT FROM YOUTUBE.COM.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">&nbsp; Experience it from two different perspectives.&nbsp; One from being successful and paying attention to what was asked of you and nothing else.&nbsp; Second, from the perspective of weak selective attention and not being able to pay attention to what is being asked of you no matter how hard you try to focus and you understand what you are to pay attention to.</p>
<p>	<span style="">Selective attention is one of three types</span> of attention in the broad sense.&nbsp; This skill <span style="">can be easily identified, measured and strengthened.</span>&nbsp; Do not wait to <span style="">have your child&#39;s selective attention skills assessed today</span>.&nbsp; </span><a href="mailto:colleen@els4kids.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">Email</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;"> now and save 50% off the cost.&nbsp; Everything you need to help your student is provided in my </span><a href="http://els4kids.com/student-transformation-system" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">Enhanced Learning Skills System.&nbsp; </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;"></p>
<p>	<span style="">The good news is that the above skill is just one of many that you are able to strengthen due to the brain&#39;s ability to develop and grow</span>.&nbsp; A student doesn&#39;t need to struggle with this weak skill set any longer.&nbsp; </span><a href="http://www.els4kids.com/student-transformation-system" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black; text-decoration: none;">The Enhanced Learning Skills System </span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">was designed to strengthen learning skills required to learn and read easier and more efficiently.&nbsp; Call me today for an </span><a href="http://els4kids.com/assessments" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">assessment</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;"> and let&#39;s begin working together to help your child learn with ease. </p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colleen</dc:creator>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: black;">So far, we have been discussing what learning skills are and how they impact a student on a daily basis.&nbsp; If you recall, we stated that learning skills are the underlying mental skills formally known as <span style="">attention, visual/auditory processing, memory, processing, word attack and auditory analysis</span>.&nbsp; Most of our children experience these skills through <span style="">reading, writing, spelling, paying attention, remembering, recalling and how quick we can respond to a request.&nbsp; </span></p>
<p>	Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing the three types of attention.&nbsp; Selective, Sustained and Divided Attention were seen as necessary cognitive skills for students.&nbsp; Without these cognitive skills as strengths, the student has great difficulty within the classroom and in his life.&nbsp; This week, we will learn about <span style="">working memory</span>.&nbsp; </p>
<p>	<span style="">Working Memory works with attention</span> to make it possible to process information that is given to us.&nbsp; For those with <span style="">Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), </span>that are cognitive based symptoms, experience <span style="">difficulty with all three types of attention </span>which impacts the <span style="">strength of their working memory</span>.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because attention and working memory go hand in hand.&nbsp; When <span style="">attention is not held long enough</span> to process information into working memory, the skill does not get worked thus presents weak.&nbsp; Parents of students with ADHD usually receive comments from teachers that their child <span style="">gets distracted too easily</span> and the student needs help with memory.&nbsp; The teachers will state that the student <span style="">cannot remember information</span> from one day or week to the next.&nbsp; </p>
<p>	Working memory is needed for math, reading, comprehension, test taking and follow directions.&nbsp; Students use their working memory when reading and trying to comprehend.&nbsp; When they take tests and read the questions, if their working memory is weak, by the time they read all the possible answers for a multiple choice question, they forget the question and have to reread it again. Students will be unable to follow directions that have multiple steps because they cannot store the information long enough to follow through.&nbsp; Weak memory skills prohibits successful learning.&nbsp; Weak attention prohibits successful learning.&nbsp; See the pattern yet?&nbsp; All of our learning skills are interconnected.&nbsp; If just one cognitive skill is weak, our ability to learn is negatively impacted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">So far, we have been discussing what learning skills are and how they impact a student on a daily basis.&nbsp; If you recall, we stated that learning skills are the underlying mental skills formally known as attention, visual/auditory processing, memory, processing, word attack and auditory analysis.&nbsp; Most of our children experience these skills through reading, writing, spelling, paying attention, remembering, recalling and how quick we can respond to a request.&nbsp; </p>
<p>	Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing our learning skills.&nbsp; Selective, Sustained and Divided Attention, and Working Memory, Processing Speed and included Visual and Auditory Processing.&nbsp; Without these cognitive skills as strengths, the student has great difficulty within the classroom and in his life.&nbsp;&nbsp; Last week we tried an exercise from <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/enh-20/detail/1424344417" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Unlock the Einstein Inside:&nbsp; Applying New Brain Science to Wake Up the Smart In Your Child.</span></a>&nbsp; Dr. Gibson is the creator of Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE) and Master the Code (MTC). <br />
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<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">This week we will discuss visual processing in a bit more detail.&nbsp;&nbsp; Visual processing relates to the brain&rsquo;s processing to make sense of information taken in through the eyes. This is different from the mechanics of the eye that would lead to glasses. &nbsp;Visual Processing issues usually impact a child so they will find anything requiring spatial relations (keep in the lines, ordering the math problems on a paper within the space, not bumping into objects when they walk, etc.) a big challenge.</span></span></p>
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<p class="style35"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Reading</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> and math are two subjects where accurate perception and understanding of visual processing is important.&nbsp; For example, spatial relationships are very important. Both Math and </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Reading</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> rely heavily on the use of symbols I Most students I work with have this area impacted to a point.&nbsp; Some students are more severe than others.&nbsp; Visual processing issues will impact the child&rsquo;s reading ability and thus academics.&nbsp; Math and </span></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Reading</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> are the two subjects that are directly impacted.&nbsp; </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Examples </span></strong>of how difficulty with visual processing could pose a challenge would be discerning between the many symbols within both subjects.&nbsp; Within reading, words must be perceived as separate units, directionality in reading left to right, similarly shaped letters of &ldquo;b&rdquo;, &ldquo;d&rdquo;, &ldquo;q&rdquo; and &ldquo;p&rdquo;.&nbsp; The importance of being able to perceive objects in relation to other objects is often seen in math problems. To be successful, the person must be able to associate that certain digits go together to make a single number (14), that others are single digit numbers, that the operational signs (+,x,=) are distinct from the numbers, but demonstrate a relationship between them. The only cues to such math problems are the spacing and order between the symbols (LD Online, 2008).&nbsp; Additionally, just being able to space and shape the flow of the equations to the space on the paper can be a challenge for students where they require graph paper to complete the work.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">When you have visual processing difficulties, visual motor integration is often a spillover effect.&nbsp; This is the ability to use visual cues (sight) to guide the child&#39;s movements (LD Online, 2008). This refers to both gross motor and fine motor tasks. Often children with difficulty in this area have a tough time orienting themselves in space, especially in relation to other people and objects. These are the children who are often called &quot;clumsy&quot; because they bump into things, place things on the edges of tables or counters where they fall off, &quot;miss&quot; their seats when they sit down, etc. This can interfere with virtually all areas of the child&#39;s life: social, academic, athletic, pragmatic. Difficulty with fine motor integration effects a child&#39;s writing, organization on paper, and ability to transition between a worksheet or keyboard and other necessary information which is in a book, on a number line, graph, chart, or computer screen.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">A funny story with visual processing weaknesses goes back to when I became certified and licensed in Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE). &nbsp;First, I have to give you the background to the story.&nbsp; &nbsp;When I arrived in </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Colorado Springs</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> for my week of training, I admit that I was probably the biggest doubting Thomas in the room.&nbsp; I came to </span></span><st1:state w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Colorado</span></span></st1:state><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> because I wanted help for my children, especially </span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Shannon</span></span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"> who sustained cognitive injury from her autoimmune disorder.&nbsp; The Gibson Family, creators of PACE and MTC, picked up on my doubts.&nbsp; Perhaps it was because all I kept asking was &ldquo;where&rsquo;s the data?&rdquo;, &ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the Research?&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp; So, the family brought in their GURU .. Dr. Ken Gibson himself to speak to all of us that came to learn and get certified.&nbsp; Anyway, Dr. Gibson recognizes that a.k.a. Brain Training is still in its infancy relative to being mainstream intervention but its not in its infancy relative to research and proven results.&nbsp; So what&rsquo;s the best way to prove something works?&nbsp; Yep &hellip; you guessed it!&nbsp; Dr. Gibson used the program on me!&nbsp; LOL.&nbsp; What happened was the best trainers for this program are the Gibson Family.&nbsp; They literally visit learning centers around the country to train/monitor the PACE/MTC trainers.&nbsp; So, I volunteered at this point, to get this over with.&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s just say after the fact, I found out no one wanted to volunteer and they were happy I did so.&nbsp; Okay, next is the funny part.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">I get up in front of the room of people and sit in the middle with the trainer.&nbsp; Then, I &lsquo;m instructed to stand with the trainer and the metronome begins echoing in the room.&nbsp; I have not done anything at this point with a metronome.&nbsp; First, I&rsquo;m instructed to not only catch the ball being thrown to me but do so on beat.&nbsp; Next, the trainer starts saying a sentence to me and we have to each say a word in the sentence within beat on each throw of the ball.&nbsp; Finally, I begin to stumble because I am using all my skills at once.&nbsp; My visual processing to visualize the sentence she spoke to me, my auditory to process what she said, my processing speed to hurry up and get the info into working memory, my working memory to hold onto all these directions and finally attention to make sure I am able to use all my attention skills and be successful.&nbsp; Whew!&nbsp; What a wake up call that was for me!&nbsp; Just doing that exercise alone woke up my mental skills and kept me alert for a while.&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Another exercise the team used me for was learning the President&rsquo;s forwards and backwards.&nbsp; I knew this was going to be tough because I couldn&rsquo;t remember the name of the President who came after </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Washington</span></span></st1:place></st1:state></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">.&nbsp; After they stopped giggling in good jest, of course, they worked with me and sure enough, they strengthened my skills within one session and I remembered the Presidents.&nbsp;&nbsp; You can&rsquo;t imagine how proud I was to tell my husband, the history buff, that I could state all the President&rsquo;s forwards and backwards.&nbsp; He said, If they got you to memorize the President&rsquo;s, then I&rsquo;m sold!&nbsp; He was sold and so was I because I personally felt the power of this training program.&nbsp; By the end of the week, I had renewed confidence in my own abilities!&nbsp; All the students that I work with feel the same way I did.&nbsp; More importantly, the goal of this one exercise is not to remember the President&rsquo;s but to begin strengthening your cognitive skills.&nbsp; Learning the President&rsquo;s is an added bonus.&nbsp; I hope you can &quot;see&quot; how visual processing and all the learning skills are so important for learning successfully.]&quot;<br />
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<p class="style35"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Visual Processing:&nbsp; If visual manipulation or visual imagery is poor then those tasks that require seeing in your heard (math word problems, and comprehension, etc.) will suffer.</span></span></p>
<p class="style44"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">Your child may be experiencing similar difficulties while learning because one or more cognitive skills are weak.&nbsp; The best way to find this out is to have your child&rsquo;s cognitive skills tested.&nbsp; The good news is after a student works with the <a href="http://els4kids.com/student-transformation-system" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Student Transformation System,</span></a> they will have strengthened all of their cognitive skills.&nbsp; ADHD symptoms, that are cognitive based, disappear to the point the teachers and family take notice.&nbsp; Recognize that there is hope and a solution.&nbsp; Call today for more information on your choices!&nbsp; Call me at (908) 285-8352.&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;">We will delve into Auditory Processing next week because it too is such a core skill that will impact across all subjects and environments (home/school).</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="style35"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">So far, we have been discussing what learning skills are and how they impact a student on a daily basis.&nbsp; If you recall, we stated that learning skills are the underlying mental skills formally known as attention, visual/auditory processing, memory, processing, word attack and auditory analysis.&nbsp; Most of our children experience these skills through reading, writing, spelling, paying attention, remembering, recalling and how quick we can respond to a request. &nbsp;</p>
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<p>	Auditory Processing is really an important underlying mental skill.&nbsp; This week I wanted to provide you with some background details around this one mental skill.&nbsp; The National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders states the following on Auditory Processing:<br />
	Auditory processing is a term used to describe what happens when your brain recognizes and interprets the sounds around you. The &quot;disorder&quot; part of auditory processing disorder means that something is adversely affecting the processing or interpretation of the information.<br />
	Children with Auditory Processing issues often do not recognize subtle differences between sounds in words, even though the sounds themselves are loud and clear.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Symptoms</span></strong> of Auditory Processing Disorder can range from mild to severe. Here are some questions you can ask yourself about your child&#39;s processing of sounds if you think there is a problem:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Are noisy environments upsetting to your child?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Does your child&#39;s behavior and performance improve in quieter settings?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Does your child have difficulty following directions, whether simple or complicated?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Does your child have reading, spelling, writing, or other speech-language difficulties?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Is abstract information difficult for your child to comprehend?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Are verbal (word) math problems difficult for your child?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Is your child disorganized and forgetful?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Are conversations hard for your child to follow?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p class="style35"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="style53">Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is an </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">often an unknown problem and often not diagnosed because</span></strong><span class="style53"> many of the behaviors noted above can also appear in other conditions like learning disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), </span><span class="style461">dyslexia, autism, autism spectrum disorder, specific language impairment, pervasive developmental disorder, or developmental delay.</span><span class="style53"> It is also possible to have APD&nbsp;and have these same disorders.&nbsp; If that is the case, then most of the time the major disorder like autism is found and treated and </span><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">APD goes undetected.</span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Audiologists </span></strong>(hearing specialists) can determine if a child has APD. Only audiologists can perform auditory processing testing and diagnose your child.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Problem Areas for Kids With APD (taken from kidshealth article):</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="style35"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The five main problem areas that can affect both home and school activities in kids with APD are:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Auditory Memory Problems:</span></strong> This is when the child has difficulty remembering information such as directions, lists, or study materials. It can be immediate (i.e., &quot;I can&#39;t remember it now&quot;) and/or delayed (i.e., &quot;I can&#39;t remember it when I need it for later&quot;).
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Auditory Discrimination Problems:</span></strong> This is when the child has difficulty hearing the difference between sounds or words that are similar (COAT/BOAT or CH/SH). This problem can affect following directions, reading, spelling, and writing skills, among others.
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Auditory Attention Problems:</span></strong> This is when the child can&#39;t maintain focus for listening long enough to complete a task or requirement (such as listening to a lecture in school). Although health, motivation, and attitude might also affect attention, among other factors, a child with CAPD <em>cannot</em> (not <em>will not</em>) maintain attention.
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Auditory Cohesion Problems:</span></strong> This is when higher-level listening tasks are difficult. Auditory cohesion skills &mdash; drawing inferences from conversations, understanding riddles, or comprehending verbal math problems &mdash; require heightened auditory processing and language levels. They develop best when all the other skills (levels 1 through 4 above) are intact.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: times new roman,times,serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Your child may be experiencing similar difficulties while learning The best way to find this out is to have your child&rsquo;s cognitive skills tested.&nbsp; The good news is after a student works with the </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 115%; color: black;">Student Transformation System</span></a></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> they will have strengthened all of their cognitive skills including auditory processing.&nbsp; ADHD symptoms, that are cognitive based, disappear to the point the teachers and family take notice.&nbsp; Recognize that there is hope and a solution.&nbsp; Call today for more information on your choices!&nbsp; Call me at (908) 285-8352.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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