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Hi everyone,
I'm uploading for your reading pleasure the latest issue of The Harp Chronicle. This newsletter comes from The Harp Learning Institute Lodi Center which uses Lisa's brain retraining program. In this issue I talk about dyslexia. Enjoy and if you have any comments or questions please leave me a post.
Kristi,
Director of The Harp Learning Institute Lodi
At 5:00 PM today Lisa and Liz will be doing a blog talk radio show on IEP experiences. We've been gathering numerous experiences from parents, students, teachers and advocates and have quit a lot of information on the subject.
If you'd like to participate and call in for the show we'd love to hear from you
IEP (Individualized Education Program) on Blog Talk Radio
The listing of experiences can be found at this link
IEP (Individualized Education Program) Experiences
If you'd like to add your own experience please do so here
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein
I am always amazed when I find someone trying to fix poor academics with more academics. Think about it. If you have done something for seven hours each day that wasn't working, would you spend several more hours each afternoon and evening doing the same thing? Certainly not. You would think of a new strategy, a different method of trying to get the job done. Yet, every evening parents sit at kitchen tables trying to help their kids overcome learning differences by adding more academics to these students' plates. Schools do the same thing with summer school and after school intervention programs.
And the sad truth of it all is that this just isn't working. If it worked, the students would have mastered it at school. Too many kids are dying a slow death every day at school, attending after school and summer learning programs, and then going home to more of the same thing. So what is a parent to do?
Well, to start with, we need to address why the student isn't doing well academically. We need to look at the learning systems and find out where weaknesses are. Most of the students I work with are right brain dominant tactile learners. Because of this they are failing in the left brain dominant primarily auditory modern American classroom. Are these kids dumb? No. But they don't learn in the same way that the teachers are presenting the information.
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I have an 11 yos who's gifted and has juvenile diabetes. He's very verbally advanced but struggles with reading small print, struggles with spelling, and occasionally still can't distinguish a lower case b and d. He's artistic, he's a daydreamer, and struggles with memorizing math facts and other facts. It seems the brain retraining and some memory issues need to be addressed. What materials should I buy? Thanks.
I initially was trained to do brain retraining with the use of muscle testing. I, too, found it to be confusing for both the student and myself. I also felt it was somewhat invasive, especially for teens. I do believe in muscle testing and I believe that it works.
Hi,
I had learned a little bit about brain retraining in the past and it involved muscle testing. I found this part very difficult. Do you find that it is a necessary part of brain retraining or are you finding success without using that???
Thanks :)
I have a bright little 12 year old. The problem right now is that we are behind in our academics. She says she feels 'stupid.'
We had some very rough times over the last few years and guess what got put one the backburner a lot of the time?
I am so overwhelmed I do not know where to start===we do keep going forward a little at a time but, I believe there is a better way of doing things. Illnesses and worse caused a halt and now I need to start going forward a little faster.
What is a 12 expected to know? Especially in math.
Jeannie
Humans by nature are visual creatures. As a matter of fact, 75 to 90% of all that we learn comes to us through visual pathways.
Knowing this, it’s important to identify children who may have weakened visual processing skills and give them a method to overcome these weaknesses. First, understand that 20/20 vision has very little to do with this. Second, you should have a general understanding of the anatomy of the eye. And finally, you will need some basic exercises to help the student overcome any of these problems.
