When you have a child who is struggling in school, nobody really understands. You can end up feeling so tired, helpless and judged by others. It’s a roller coaster between: “I want to help my amazing child SO MUCH” – and total frustration. You just want something to work fast or at least to know that you are on the right track. If you really want to know how to help your child I think you will find our approach refreshing.
Almost all tutoring programs are teaching the same way the teacher is teaching in school – all you’re doing is making them do more of the same, which isn’t working.
If your child is behind, it’s because they don’t learn the way it is taught at school. At Hardy Brain Training, we focus on identifying how your child learns and pinpointing the reasons in the way the brain is working that cause your child to fall behind.
Our SMARTS tutoring programs are all based on our simple formula for success:
We’ve developed a measurement that actually discovers the processing areas where your child’s brain isn’t working as well as the brains of peers the same age. We’ve developed sensory based tutoring programs that make learning fun as they engage your child with movement and sensory based teaching methods that get to the root of the processing weakness and teach your child’s brain how to learn as they catch up with the academic work that is below grade level.
They get caught up with reading, math, spelling and writing AND their brain has learned how to process that information optimally so they can keep up in the future.
We find what works for the individual and then tailor what we do specifically to them – it’s not a cookie cutter process.
SMARTS Tutoring programs are designed just for your child’s learning, attention, behavior, and motivation challenges that have kept them from performing at their best.
SMARTS Tutoring programs are perfect for students who:
You’ve wondered many times – perhaps for years – why aren’t they where their peers are and why hasn’t anyone been able to help? There is a reason. Teachers are taught how to teach academics. They are not taught how to pinpoint why your child isn’t learning or to correct those problems. Our expertise is in identifying the missing pieces in how the brain is thinking so your child can close the gap in the classroom.
We identify the mental component – the missing brain skill – that’s preventing your child from absorbing information when it is taught in the classroom.
We specialize in correcting the missing step for your child that is natural to the other students who are doing well in class.
The SMARTS Tutoring programs help students who are behind in class, have learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger’s, autism or simply get frustrated with learning.
Along with the SMARTS tutoring programs, we offer cognitive brain training programs to improve thinking speed and the ability to absorb information more quickly so learning gets faster and frustration goes away.
We only accept students into our programs who we believe we can help. We offer programs in our center in Camarillo, California and all across the United States in your home via video conferencing. All SMARTS programs are taught one-to-one with a credentialed teacher who has had SMARTS training to make your child’s learning experience a positive one.
We begin by gathering information from you on our on-line checklist. When you submit your information, we’ll set up a consultation at no charge. You’ll let us know a good time to talk and we’ll schedule our consultation to get acquainted with your child’s needs and determine if SMARTS can help with your child’s success. If we decide to move ahead and design a program for your child, we’ll set up your child’s assessment.
Depending on your child’s difficulties, the SMARTS Tutoring Assessment might include:
Your child’s program will be designed based on the academic needs and processing weaknesses that are at the root of the problems. This is not a cookie-cutter program.
The two basic components at the core of your child’s SMARTS program will be multi-sensory academic programs (like SMARTS Reading, Wilson Reading, Lindamood-Bell, Touch Math, SMARTS Spelling, SMARTS Math , SMARTS Comprehension/Visual Memory) for improving academic areas where your child has fallen behind combined with our stimulating sensory-motor activities for improving and speeding up the way your child’s brain is processing information.
Small group programs and one-to-one sessions are designed to help the home-schooled child achieve more quickly and overcome the academic logjams that can frustrate parents as they work with their children. Help with academics, learning how to organize and carry out a project, and writers workshops are available to move your child quickly through the curriculum you have designed for your child’s needs. Daily instruction, two, three or four times a week meetings can be tailored to meet your needs.
The SMARTS program offers a course that helps parents understand and identify ways to help their children. You’ll discover the important processing skills that make children successful and how to spot the signs that your child is missing one or more of these key processing skills.
To get started helping your child or to get more information so you can make a decision if this is the right program to help you, please request the Hardy Checklist by entering your name, email, phone and concerns here:
After you have entered your information, you will go to a new page with a checklist for you to fill out that will guide us in learning about your child. Please fill out the checklist and we’ll be in touch with you to set up a consultation where we can talk about where your child is behind and what you imagine for your child’s future.
Imagine a night without homework battles, where the other family members get attention too and where your child is smiling again.
I’d like to help you dissolve the frustration over how to help your child succeed and permanently correct the problems that cause your child to lose ground at school.
In support,
~Sherrie Hardy
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