Reading, Improving Writing, and Study Skills As a parent you often find that your child need a boost with learning reading, writing, or study skills. I know I did! My kids, I have two sons and a daughter, and they are like everyone else's kids, they did drive me a bit crazy with the homework wars by the middle of November and I wondered if they'd ever stop. As a parent you also sometimes feel like you don't know how to help your child. Knowi8ng this, I designed a program with step-by-step video lessons to help you help your child, and I've added three live sessions for you to ask your questions too. When you have someone in your corner, helping you every step of the way, change happens. Because of this, I decided to run a contest and give away one of my Awaken the Scholar Within Reading, Writing, and Study Skills Programs ($997.00 value). So, enter our contest, it runs for 10 days only...Nov 11th through Nov 19th. You may just end up winning the program and improving those reading, writing, and study skills! Enter the Contest Here! Awaken the Scholar Within Learning Reading, Writing, and Study Skills Program (1st – adult) Students improve: 36 areas of learning Reading fluency & comprehension Sentence writing Note-taking skills Paragraph writing skills Research paper writing skills Planning skills Visual processing skills Auditory processing skills Tactile/kinesthetic processing skills 12 weeks, includes 22...

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Reading, Improving Writing, and Study Skills

 Reading, Improving Writing, and Study Skills  As a parent you often find that your child need a boost with learning reading, writing, or study skills. I know I did! My kids, I have two sons and a daughter, and they are like everyone else's kids, they did drive me a bit crazy with the homework wars by the middle of November and I wondered if they'd ever stop. As a parent you also sometimes feel like you don't know how to help your child. Knowi8ng this, I designed a program with step-by-step video lessons to help you help your child, and I've added three live sessions for you to ask your questions too. When you have someone in your corner, helping you every step of the way, change happens. Because of this,   I decided to run a contest and give away one of my Awaken the Scholar Within Reading, Writing, and Study Skills Programs ($997.00 value). So, enter our contest, it runs for 10 days only...Nov 11th through Nov 19th. You may just end up winning the program and improving those reading, writing, and study skills!  Enter the Contest Here!   Awaken the Scholar Within Learning Reading, Writing, and Study Skills Program (1st – adult) Students improve:   36 areas of learning Reading fluency & comprehension Sentence writing Note-taking skills Paragraph writing skills Research paper writing skills Planning skills Visual processing skills Auditory processing skills Tactile/kinesthetic processing skills  12 weeks, includes 22...

Enter our contest to win! As a dyslexia and ADHD expert I know kids often struggle with learning. And, I know that parents try their best to help their children. After all, I believe we as parents have two missions in life. The first is to be our best selves and the second is to help our kids be their best self. When you kids struggle with learning, it is difficult for both of you to be your best self. But what if it could be easier? Is it possible? What would it be like if your kids could learn with greater ease? What would it look like if homework time didn't take so-o-o long? That can happen! I finally decided to share the visual processing activities I've been using with my students over the last 35+ years. I've put those exercises into our Awaken the Scholar Within VAK Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Program. The program has video and audio lessons that come to you every week for 12 weeks. Doing the simple activities and exercises will improve visual processing, auditory processing, and tactile and kinesthetic processing skills that impact learning. The basis of the program is our understanding of how we learn, that we take in information through the senses: seeing (vision system), hearing (auditory system), and doing (tactile/kinesthetic system). When those systems are working well, learning becomes easier. So the Awaken the Scholar Within VAK Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Therapy Program does just that. It...

Enter a contest to win a free 12-week 'Awaken the Scholar Within' program designed to boost kids' visual, auditory, & kinesthetic learning.

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 Enter our contest to win!  As a dyslexia and ADHD expert I know kids often struggle with learning. And, I know that parents try their best to help their children. After all, I believe we as parents have two missions in life. The first is to be our best selves and the second is to help our kids be their best self. When you kids struggle with learning, it is difficult for both of you to be your best self. But what if it could be easier? Is it possible?  What would it be like if your kids could learn with greater ease? What would it look like if homework time didn't take so-o-o long? That can happen! I finally decided to share the visual processing activities I've been using with my students over the last 35+ years. I've put those exercises into our Awaken the Scholar Within VAK Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Program. The program has video and audio lessons that come to you every week for 12 weeks. Doing the simple activities and exercises will improve visual processing, auditory processing, and tactile and kinesthetic processing skills that impact learning.  The basis of the program is our understanding of how we learn, that we take in information through the senses: seeing (vision system), hearing (auditory system), and doing (tactile/kinesthetic system). When those systems are working well, learning becomes easier. So the Awaken the Scholar Within VAK Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Therapy Program does just that. It...

Enter a contest to win a free 12-week 'Awaken the Scholar Within' program designed to boost kids' visual, auditory, & kinesthetic learning.

Technology is revolutionizing the way therapy and treatment modalities can be provided. Webcams and the Internet are making it possible for therapists to help individuals with special needs all around the world, and Lexercise is one organization that offers online help for individuals struggling with reading, writing, and spelling. Lexercise offers a free dyslexia test to see if your child is having difficulty with reading and processing words, and they offer a full evaluation to develop an individualized treatment plan. How it Works Skilled clinicians use the Orton-Gillingham approach, which uses visual, auditory, and kinesthetic approaches to learning. Students are taught the structure of language before moving on to reading, and reading and handwriting are taught as one body of knowledge. Gradually, sequence and logic are taught to enhance literacy skills. This method has proven to be successful, and each clinician for Lexercise is given the proper special training for the program. Lexercise is convenient, and sessions take place inside your home or wherever you have access to the Internet. The site also includes video games, which makes learning fun and motivating. It costs $125 a week or $395 a month, which is a relatively low cost for therapy. Students receive webcam instruction once a week and up to seven online practice sessions. Lexercise Vs. Clinical Treatment Clinical treatment programs for dyslexia usually take place twice a week in a clinic setting. Depending on your location, Lexercise is a great alternative that does...

Lexercise offers online dyslexia therapy using the Orton-Gillingham approach, with webcam sessions and interactive games for $125/week.

Lexercise for Dyslexia

Technology is revolutionizing the way therapy and treatment modalities can be provided. Webcams and the Internet are making it possible for therapists to help individuals with special needs all around the world, and Lexercise is one organization that offers online help for individuals struggling with reading, writing, and spelling.  Lexercise offers a free dyslexia test to see if your child is having difficulty with reading and processing words, and they offer a full evaluation to develop an individualized treatment plan.  How it Works    Skilled clinicians use the Orton-Gillingham approach, which uses visual, auditory, and kinesthetic approaches to learning. Students are taught the structure of language before moving on to reading, and reading and handwriting are taught as one body of knowledge. Gradually, sequence and logic are taught to enhance literacy skills. This method has proven to be successful, and each clinician for Lexercise is given the proper special training for the program. Lexercise is convenient, and sessions take place inside your home or wherever you have access to the Internet. The site also includes video games, which makes learning fun and motivating. It costs $125 a week or $395 a month, which is a relatively low cost for therapy. Students receive webcam instruction once a week and up to seven online practice sessions.  Lexercise Vs. Clinical Treatment  Clinical treatment programs for dyslexia usually take place twice a week in a clinic setting. Depending on your location, Lexercise is a great alternative that does...

The majority of learning disabilities stem from underlying sensory processing disorder. When the child's sensory processing issues are addressed through sensory integration intervention, the road blocks to the way the child processes starts to come down, and the distortions are replaced with free flowing, faster, processing skills. When children have sensory processing disorders, they have distortions to the way they perceive their world, and learning becomes labored and delayed. Until the sensory processing is addressed with the brain being rewired with new neuro-pathways for increased processing speed and access to information retrieval, your child will struggle and shut down academically. It is important for caregivers to understand that the child with sensory processing disorder will not "grow out of it" on their own. These children need understanding and help, for no child can overcome the obstacles alone. They need to be treated by a pediatric occupational therapist specializing in treatment for sensory processing disorders. The earlier you treat the sensory issues the greater the results because the brain's ability to rewire and reorganize itself is more adaptable the younger the child. Our sensory system is made up of seven basic senses: smell, touch, taste, vision/visual perception, hearing/auditory processing, movement/balance, and kinesthesia/muscle tone. Sensory Integration (also called Sensory Processing) is the brain's ability to interpret, organize, and respond to the information that we receive through these senses for functional behavior. It receives sensory messages and turns them into responses. This helps us orient to the...

Sensory Integration intervention improves processing skills in children with learning disabilities caused by sensory processing disorders.

Sensory Integration: Building Blocks

 The majority of learning disabilities stem from underlying sensory processing disorder. When the child's sensory processing issues are addressed through sensory integration intervention, the road blocks to the way the child processes starts to come down, and the distortions are replaced with free flowing, faster, processing skills.   When children have sensory processing disorders, they have distortions to the way they perceive their world, and learning becomes labored and delayed. Until the sensory processing is addressed with the brain being rewired with new neuro-pathways for increased processing speed and access to information retrieval, your child will struggle and shut down academically. It is important for caregivers to understand that the child with sensory processing disorder will not "grow out of it" on their own. These children need understanding and help, for no child can overcome the obstacles alone. They need to be treated by a pediatric occupational therapist specializing in treatment for sensory processing disorders. The earlier you treat the sensory issues the greater the results because the brain's ability to rewire and reorganize itself is more adaptable the younger the child.   Our sensory system is made up of seven basic senses: smell, touch, taste, vision/visual perception, hearing/auditory processing, movement/balance, and kinesthesia/muscle tone.  Sensory Integration (also called Sensory Processing) is the brain's ability to interpret, organize, and respond to the information that we receive through these senses for functional behavior. It receives sensory messages and turns them into responses. This helps us orient to the...

Sensory Integration intervention improves processing skills in children with learning disabilities caused by sensory processing disorders.

I began homeschooling my son soon after he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, at 6 years old and in his second year of schooling. I quickly realized that his school knew even less than I did about Asperger's, and while I soon educated myself through free courses available to me and through the internet, I also knew the school had no strategies in place regarding my son's needs, and I did not have enough knowledge at the time, or the personal skill to negotiate that pioneering road with the school. And so I looked at alternatives.  Skepticism, Hurdles and Possibilities  It happened that I knew a couple of families who were homeschooling, one for different reasons, and another because of the same issues as I was now facing. The social resource of networking cannot be underestimated, and speaking to these homeschooling parents, I quickly realized that home education was a practical option, and unlike expensive private schools, it was possible to fit into my budget. Figuring I couldn't go too far wrong teaching the academic basics to a 6 year old, and that one-on-one attention and the ability to teach to his strengths and natural learning styles could only benefit my child, I made my decision. This is not to say I did not face opposition and/or skepticism from friends and family. Actually, as skeptics go, mine were reasonably mild, and I brushed aside the hesitance of the doubters, including my son's Remedial Teacher of Learning and Behavior–his...

A parent homeschools their autistic child using adaptive methods, leveraging visual/kinesthetic learning and online resources.

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A parent homeschools their autistic child using adaptive methods, leveraging visual/kinesthetic learning and online resources.

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