Our Weekly Poll

Take our weekly poll and come back often to see the results. This week- Are you satisfied with your child’s reading level?  The latest report on standardized testing indicates little change in reading scores for students in 9-12th grade and a slight improvement in elementary scores. Do you agree?

 

Poll for May 26th- June 2nd, 2010:

Are you planning any activities this summer specifically to prepare your child for the next school year?                                                                                                                                   

0% of respondents said “No Way!, we’re on vacation.”

20% of respondents said “If we don’t do something they’ll forget everything they learned this year.”                              

20% of respondents said “Academic Summer school/camp, tutoring or therapy. We need help!”                                     

60% of respondents said “Maybe some grade appropriate workbooks or computer learning programs.”

 

Poll for May 19th-25th,  2010 :

” Are school budget cuts cutting into your child’s learning”?

Results are in:

33.3 % of respondents said “Yes”, school budget cuts are cutting into their child’s learning.

66.7% of respondents said “Not yet” but they admit to being worried about the impact of budget cuts on their child’s learning next year.

“But the doctor says hearing & vision are fine…”

The human brain is constantly receiving input from our environment. We use our 5 senses to gather that information. What the ears hear, what the eyes see, what the skin feels, what the nose smells and even what the tongue tastes is simply information received. What the brain does with that information after reception is defined as processing.

Understanding the difference between what information is received and what the brain does with it is critical in determining the root of the learning problem.

Let’s look at one scenario…

Your child is struggling in school, and the teacher says she constantly has to repeat directions and suggests having a hearing evaluation. The doctor says there is nothing wrong with your child’s hearing or vision. But you know there’s a problem.  

A passing vision  examination confirms the ability to take information in visually and with what degree of clarity the eyes are “seeing.” A hearing examination simply confirms that the ears are hearing sounds on a variety of frequencies.

It’s what your child’s brain does with the information it gets from the eyes and ears that makes the difference between learning like their classmates or constantly struggling to keep up academically.

The Therapy Group is comprised of professionals with specific expertise in recognizing processing deficits and designing programs to overcome weaknesses and build on your child’s strengths.

Don’t Wait! Let us help you help your child.

The root of the learning problem

The success that The Therapy Group has achieved is based on the premise of “getting to the root of the problem”. 

• Instead of putting a “band-aid” on the problem with a coping technique or compensatory strategy, we attempt to determine where the neurological problem is and design treatment approaches to strengthen and/or remediate these problems. 
• We have found that in most situations we can change the way a child learns by changing the way the brain processes, thus equipping him or her with the fundamental principles for reaching their full learning potential.
• No one program of intervention is ever quite all the child needs.  It is a combination of programs or parts of programs that works; and these combinations must be designed for each child specifically. 
• Teaching systems must be appropriately intertwined to achieve the best possible outcomes for each individual child. 
• We want to help you help your child with state-of-the-art technology and programming to bring your child to levels of achievement at a faction of the cost of direct professional intervention or other remedial services. 

Your child’s future is in your hands – Give your child the attention that he or she deserves!

Does this sound like your child?

At home does your child often:

• Misunderstand what you say?
• Request that information be repeated?
• Need to have requests or questions rephrased?
• Give slow or delayed responses?
• Have problems finding the right words to say?
• Seem reluctant to engage in conversations?

At school does your child often:

• Have difficulty remembering/following directions?
• Not remember the question when called upon in class?
• Seem to phase out or daydream?
• Do poorly in noisy situations?
• Have difficulty with phonics (sounding words out)?
• Struggle with reading and/or spelling?
• Have unexplained behavior problems?
• Have decreased organizational or note taking skills?
• Avoid assignments that include lengthy reading or writing tasks.

These learning challenges are often overlooked or labeled as “laziness”, day dreaming” or simply “your child’s not trying.”

You know your child is bright and is doing his/her best but they just don’t learn the way the other kids do.

You’re right!

Every child learns differently and by applying neurologically based therapeutic programs your child can overcome those learning challenges and be successful academically.

We can help your hard to teach child.
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The Therapy Group is here to offer you the tools necessary for your child’s individual learning needs.

Does this look like your child…Frustrated…Feeling Hopeless?

You know your child is bright, but he’s struggling to keep up at school.

The teachers say he’s just not trying, he’s daydreaming, or just not doing his work. He spends hours each night on homework, and still brings home Cs, Ds, and Fs.

Your child can succeed!

We’re here to help you help them.

You know your child has more potential, So why is school such a struggle?

 

The teachers say he’s just not trying, he’s daydreaming, or just not doing his work. He spends hours each night on homework, and still brings home Cs, Ds, and Fs.

Is it a learning disability? Could it be?

Wikipedia says: “In the United States and Canada, the terms learning disability, learning disabilities, and learning disorders (LD) refer to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information.

A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence. Indeed, research indicates that some people with learning disabilities may have average or above-average intelligence. Causes of learning disabilities include a deficit in the brain that affects the processing of information.”

According to The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) approximately 5% of children enrolled in public school in the United States have some form of learning disability.

Are you feeling the pressure to help your child succeed when others have failed?

You know your child is bright, but he’s struggling to keep up at school.

The teachers say he’s just not trying, he’s daydreaming, or just not doing his work. He spends hours each night on homework, and still brings home Cs, Ds, and Fs.

Is it a learning disability? Could it be?

Wikipedia says: “In the United States and Canada, the terms learning disability, learning disabilities, and learning disorders (LD) refer to a group of disorders that affect a broad range of academic and functional skills including the ability to speak, listen, read, write, spell, reason and organize information.

A learning disability is not indicative of low intelligence. Indeed, research indicates that some people with learning disabilities may have average or above-average intelligence. Causes of learning disabilities include a deficit in the brain that affects the processing of information.”

According to The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) approximately 5% of children enrolled in public school in the United States have some form of learning disability.

Language/Auditory processing.

“Processing” is a term we refer to often. Simply put, processing describes what your brain does with information it receives through your senses.

“Think of your brain as a huge file room with rows and rows of filing cabinets. When information is received, whether it be something you saw (visual) or heard (auditory), it is sorted and stored in your “file room”. For some people and for a variety of reasons the filing system used by their brain is not the correct order.

 

 

Imagine if your employer told you to go to the file room and retrieve an important file, you open the first filing cabinet to find none of the files are in alphabetical order. In fact the filing system makes no sense to you at all. How long do you think it will take you to find that all important file?

For people with processing deficits the filing system chaos in their brain can make even the easiest task difficult or at the very least laborious.

The programs used by The Therapy Group help to re-order that file system and strengthen the neuro-pathways (routes) from information intake to the correct file cabinet.

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