(that actually hold their children back!)
· “Maybe she just needs more tutoring.”
o Haven’t you tried tutoring already? If it didn’t fix the problem, maybe no one’s identified the full problem yet.
· “I was never good at math either. He must have gotten it from me.”
o Every child can succeed in school. If [...]
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How to Take the First Step
Understand Why Your Child Struggles in School
You have three options right now:
1. Continue what you’ve been doing. Next year’s Report Card will look the same.
2. Try tutoring. You’ve tried that before – it will only help in places.
3. Read Beyond Labels to determine what the problem actually is so that [...]
The brain grows in stages. Each stage lays the foundation for the next stage. In stage #1the cerebellum grows from birth to 7. In stage #2 the left and right hemispheres take their growth spurt from 7 to 13. The cortex starts its rapid growth spurt at 13. At 17 the frontal lobe begins its [...]
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Q: Thank you for responding to my inquiry so quickly. My daughter is 11 years old. She has been diagnosed with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalcula, other language and auditory processing deficiencies, ADD – I think you can get the picture. We have tried different therapies including neurofeedback. Are you familiar with that? It actually helped
her a [...]
I wondered: Is knowing how to learn and pay attention impossible?
I knew I was not the only parent to face this frustration.
The worst part was: the teachers and tutors really had no idea how to help or what to do. I worried that my child would start to believe what their teachers thought — that she was stupid, hopeless, inattentive and lazy.