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Is Your Child a Kinesthetic Learner with Executive Function and/or Visual Processing Issues — Assess for Success and for Disabilities
Many smart struggling students are either a Kinesthetic Learner, have Executive Function challenges and/or have a Visual Processing issue. Is your child a visual or kinesthetic learner with executive function &/or a visual processing challenge? Our comprehensive...
For the Kinesthetic Learner with Executive Function Issues, The Silver Lining in The Recent NAEP Reading Comprehension and Math Scores
Our expertise is with the right brain, visual or kinesthetic learners who often have executive function issues. These students often have visual processing issues, too. That is, they skip words and lines when reading and/or make mistakes when doing math work because...
How to Help Your Child Succeed and Get the Most Help from Your Child’s School
For Your Kinesthetic Learner with Executive Function and/or Visual Processing Issues How to Help Your Child Succeed (Assessment Special at the Bottom of the Page) Most students we see are a kinesthetic learner with some executive function issues. They often have...
For the right brain or visual learner, private schools can be a challenge
If your child is struggling at private school, especially in elementary school, there is a good chance they: Are a right brain or visual learner Are below grade level in reading comprehension Have executive function challenges May have anxiety and/or behavioral...
Does your child have reading comprehension issues?
How to significantly improve reading comprehension within 4 to 6 months Reading comprehension issues have become even more pressing since the pandemic started. As always, we are seeing students with dyslexia and learning disabilities who are far behind. With...
Using the power of pictures to help kids and parents stay calm
Words can confuse and overwhelm many children. Confusion inevitably leads to frustration, for both the students and their parents. This is especially true for kids who learn differently. Traditional written and verbal instructions are often the reason why smart...
How parents can make reading more fun and educational
Reading could and should be fun. Kids today are bombarded with visual input. Besieged behind a zoom screen, computer games, endless tv options, Tik Tok, YouTube, and more, reading is becoming a lost art, especially for kids who learn differently. It is so hard for a...
Understanding your child’s strengths and challenges.
Bright, creative kids with learning difficulties may underperform at school. They know they’re smart but somehow they can’t quite understand what the teacher is explaining. What is important to understand is that these right brain children often struggle with reading...
Halloween costumes make books come alive
With all due respect to traditional ghosts and witches, there are hundreds of creative costume possibilities inspired by books. Maybe your kids want to be Harry Potter or a character from The Magic Treehouse series. Whatever, they choose, this is a great opportunity...
10 things we wished we had known when we were teaching our kids to read
There are many reasons why a child may have difficulties learning to read. It could be as straightforward as shyness and discomfort in the classroom to a more complex diagnosis - such as dyslexia, ADHD, or visual processing issues. Different children learn at...