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Defeating Dyslexia
If the end of the academic year brings with it concerns about your child’s poor performance and disappointing exam results, know that you are not alone. Many parents are scratching their heads in despondency having watched their child struggle through the year only to end up with a poor report at the end of it. Good news for these parents is that many learners, even those that are doing very poorly at school, can be helped to improve their grades and their school performance dramatically through the correct interventions. Read more…

Improved Cognitive Abilities Are Key to Better Reading, Spelling and Learning
Cognitive abilities are the brain-based skills we need to carry out any task from the simplest to the most complex. They have more to do with the mechanisms of HOW we learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention rather than with any actual knowledge. Read more...

Ready for School, Ready for Life
A person’s ability to cope in the adult world, have a career and take charge of their financial affairs depends largely on their mastery of reading, writing and arithmetic during childhood. Unfortunately many people fail to develop these skills adequately and grow up battling dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia. Read more...

Brain Training Helps Children with ADD and ADHD
It seems as if all and sundry are being diagnosed with “Attention Deficit Disorder” (ADD) or “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (ADHD) these days. It is all too easy to put a label on behaviours that don’t conform to the norm; what do these behaviours actually mean and what can be done to treat them? Read more…

New Research May Change the Face of Dyslexia
According to popular belief dyslexia is a neurological disorder in the brain which causes information to be processed and interpreted differently, resulting in reading difficulties. Historically, the dyslexia label has been assigned to learners who are bright, even verbally articulate, but who struggle with reading; in short, whose high IQs mismatch their low reading scores. However, with the advancement in technology and extensive research, this notion has recently been challenged. Read more…

Dear Diary... A Mother’s Story of Despair, Hope,
Perseverance and Success
Based on real events — this is the mother’s side of story of helping her child with his reading problem as she confided to her diary. Read more...

Early Warning Signs for School Failure
How is your child coping at school? Is he struggling to grasp new concepts and cope with the workload? Three areas of human develop influence a child’s ability to learn. Physical, emotional and cognitive areas are separate and different in many ways, yet similar and connected in others. Your child may present with a problem in one area, but its cause may lie in another. Read more...

The Foundational Skills of Reading
Before building a house, one needs to lay a foundation. Unless there is a strong and solid foundation, cracks will soon appear in the walls, and with no foundations, the walls will collapse. In the same way one needs to lay a proper foundation before it becomes possible for a child to benefit from a course in reading. If this foundation is shaky, learning "cracks" will soon appear. Read more…

Memory Fundamental to Reading, Spelling and Learning
Memory is the retention of information over time. Although the word memory may conjure up an image of a singular, "all-or-none" process, it is clear that there are actually many kinds of memory: sensory register, short-term memory, long-term memory, visual memory, auditory memory, and sequential memory, to name but a few. Read more…