A student can know letter sounds, pass spelling quizzes, and still struggle when words stop making sense on the page. Another can understand a story aloud but freeze when asked to write a paragraph. Reading and writing are not single skills. They depend on sound, symbol, imagery, language, memory, and reasoning working together. Lindamood-Bell programs are often used when learners need targeted help with those underlying processes. Seeing Stars, Visualizing and Verbalizing, a

A child may be bright, inquisitive, and hardworking, yet still struggle when it comes time to completing her assignments. She may even get the math problems correct at the dinner table, yet miss the problem on the quiz the next day. Very often this disconnect is very confusing for families, causing some concern and worry? Why does she struggle so much with her schoolwork? She is clearly bright but does not perform to her potential. Where is the disconnect occurring? Question

Learning a new language or a new subject can be challenging. It requires commitment, organization, focus, and perseverance. In order to be successful, we have to practice and study on a regular basis. We need to create a study schedule and stick with that schedule. Sometimes we will feel successful, like we are making progress. Other times, we will feel like we are not making any headway and our efforts are useless. This can be frustrating for us. We need to toughen up a bit

Consistency is essential to achieving our goals. The more consistent we can be, the more progress we will make.

We all love doing things that we are good at. When we are good at a certain task or activity, we tend to succeed often which makes us feel good. This motivates us to want to practice the task in order to get that wonderful feeling of success. When we are not very good at something, we tend to get more frustrated because it is more difficult. We don't get that feeling of sucess and may even feel that we are a failure or just not very competent. This experience can make us wan

Parents often exclaim to us, “Why can’t she just get his act together? She seems so discouraged lately. What happened to that positive, confident child we used to know?” We hear these statements pretty often nowadays. Parents come to us wondering why their child has become so unmotivated and unengaged over the last several months. No parent wants to see their children struggling in school, failing to turn-in their assignments, and falling further and further behind. Parents i

With the help of a competent and knowledgeable instructor, he can adapt to the learning challenges and begin to excel.

To optimize student learning outcomes, it is important to facilitate good communication among all team members. The parents, therapists, teachers, coaches, and tutors must try to work together to help the students. When dealing with a child with learning challenges such as Attention Deficit Disorder, teachers often implement specific interventions designed to encourage new, healthy behaviors or skills while extinguishing certain maladaptive behaviors. Chris is a sociable elev

Whenever we meet a new student to assess her present levels of performance, we always ask for the parents’ observations and insights regarding the child’s behavior and performance at school. We have learned that parents, therapists, teachers, and coaches can provide very useful feedback and insight into what is going on with the kids and students. The more perspectives that we can include in the conversation, the better able we are to make informed, prescriptive decisions reg

Learning how to analyze passages and compose essays can be very challenging for a lot of students. They often have terrific ideas but find it difficult to get those ideas onto paper and translate them into coherent sentences and paragraphs. This can lead to frustration and a dependency on AI sources for ideas and, sometimes, the entire essay. Nowadays, kids have access to several programs (ChatGPT) which can literally compose complete essays, without requiring them to do any

An Executive functioning coach will suggest ways that the students could enhance or improve their study and organizational habits.

When students are first diagnosed with learning differences, they may find themselves feeling a bit discouraged.

When we are able to fully comprehend what we are learning, the process becomes more satisfying and enjoyable. It can even become motivating

The goals of all of this work is to teach the student how to manage their workload independently.

The term neurodiverse, coined by Judy Singer simply means that the person’s brain works differently than the majority of people's brains.

It is easier for the student to digest concepts presented in bite-sized pieces.

They find themselves waiting until the very last minute, often starting the assignment the day before it is due and cramming