To describe our students, tearms like dyslexia, a learning disability or not motivated are often used.
We see our students as bright right-brained learners, and our goal is to help your bright right-brained learner to be all they can be.
Our Goals
- To help students to significantly improve their reading comprehension and to enjoy reading
- To reduce homework time and stress while improving homework quality
- To improve standardized test scores by improving underlying skills
- To help the students become calmer, more confident and better focused
- To help parents make the difference in their child's life while freeing time and energy for their family and themselves
We tailor our program to meet your child's needs
3D Learner Program (R) Roots
In 1995, we were told our then eighth grade daughter Julie was not college material. Julie's mother Mira, who has her Masters in Education, developed the 3D Learner Program that helped Julie improve her reading comprehension 4.2 grade levels in 7 months and later earn her Masters in Education.
Julie "The Original 3D Learner"
The three key concepts behind the initial program were:
- Julie learned best when she saw and experienced information and could dramatically improve her comprehension if she could master sight words
- Julie had been frustrated by previous challenges and if she could be calmer, more confident and better focused life would be better
- As parents, we needed to learn how to more effectively coach and advocate for Julie, while teaching her to be a better self-advocate
Key Discoveries
- 33% of students are right-brained learners students like Julie, and another 29%are more right-brained
- Our students often come from the best families, who have struggled despite massive investments of time, money and effort
- Our students can make very dramatic gains in a reasonable time frame if we address the vision, attention, learning and self-esteem issues while partnering with parents. When parents are an integral part of the program we can get far greater results than traditional tutoring
Key Elements of The 3D Learner Program
Over the years, there are six areas we have improved significantly
1. We needed an assessment process that focused on how students learn best, their learning strengths and issues and whether they had underlying vision, attention and/or auditory issues. We have used the Structure of Intellect Assessment ® for the last nine years - it does an excellent job of assessing the student's learning style, learning strengths and issues and whether they have underlying vision and/or auditory issues. It often shows the student is smarter than they thought and has a very positive influence on self-esteem. We needed a way to assess attention issues and have used the Interactive Metronome ® since 2000. This provides a valuable assessment. Lastly, many of our students were having real vision problems when reading - we have used the Visagraph ® since 2002. It shows what the student's eyes are doing when reading and has often identified key issues that were previously missed.
SOI Assessment The Interactive Metronome + The Visagraph =
Assessment For Success
2. While only 1/3 of our clients had ADHD, many clients had underlying attention issues. Therefore we added four key elements:
a. The Interactive Metronome ® that significantly improves attention and self-control, reading and math fluency and sports skills
b. Brain Gym ® exercises that improve left and right-brain integration and also improve focus, attention and vision
c. An Internal Controller that allows both the students and parents to control their frustration, while getting work done more quickly
d. EmWave (R), a bio-feedback computerized system that calms the student, integrates their heart and their mind and improves performances, especially on high-stakes tests.
3. Close to 70% of our students have significant issues with either:
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Skipping words or lines when reading b. Copying off the board
c. Remembering math facts and/or spelling words
We therefore have developed an array of exercises to improve these skills while collaborating with like-minded vision specialists - we also use the Gemstone (R) Vision System - where appropriate.
4. Parent training has always been an integral part of the training and we have produced an excellent workbook that enables parents to provide the follow-up support. We also work with the students and parents to set goals and to provide a positive and effective way for parents and students to communicate. We also collaborate with schools.
5. Parents also wanted to make sure that:
a. Reading speed and comprehension gains were significant
b. Attention gains were sustained and continued improvement was made
c. They could afford what we do
We now offer Reading Plus ®, a software program to improve Reading Speed and Comprehension. We also leverage both Recording For the Blind and Dyslexic and Talking Books to provide books on tape.
7- Lastly, as parents and educators we want to see the student's self-esteem improved, the parent child communication to be even more effective and for the entire experience to be positive for the entire family - we have structured our program to be a work hard/play hard experience where parents and students experience transformational gains in a positive and relaxed setting.
8. Parents have also been very happy with our on-going coaching program - we offer both a pre-program call and 6 follow-up calls over the first three months as part of the program investment
Many of our students also have vision related issues and wanted us to provide an effective vision therapy option. We now offer the Gemstone Program ® as an option beyond our core program. This allows the student to get many of the benefits of Vision Therapy at a fraction of the cost - it also helps parents by both integrating the efforts with the other 3D Learner initiatives and reduces the logistical challenges.
For more information call Mira and Mark Halpert at 561-361-7495
Mira Halpert M.Ed.
3D Learner Program ® Developer
Partnering with Parents and Professionals to Make The Difference
Program includes:
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| x hours of student contact - dependent on our needs analysis |
| ½ day of parent training |
| School visit for IEP |
| Home System |
| Taylor Reading Plus ® software |