...the fact that your child is a right-brained learner with tracking issues?
We have read hundreds of psycho-educational tests and frequently read:
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Your child has a learning disability and/or dyslexia
- Your child has ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and an Orton-Gillingham Program and ADHD medication are recommended
The three things that are often true but not often mentioned are:
- Your child might be a right-brained learner -- who will do better with a hands-on approach that plays to their strengths
- Your
child has tracking issues -- where they skip words and lines when
reading -- this is not true in every case where a child has Dyslexia
or a Learning Disability -- but we have found tracking issues in 72% of
our clients
- There are non-medication options to address ADHD that include the Interactive Metronome (R) and Brain Gym Exercises (R)
My name is Mira Halpert. I have a Masters Degree in Education. I have
two children who were diagnosed with Dyslexia, a Learning Disability
and ADHD. initially, I realized my daughter was a right-brained learner
and needed a right-brained program that allowed her to master
sight-word vocabulary, pattern recognition and transferring words into
pictures into meaning.
Many Dyslexia Programs are Orton-Gillingham based, and focus on phonics.
My daughter had mastered phonics -- and the challenges were:
- The sight words -- where she knew the word, but could not transfer it into a picture
- Pattern recognition -- she did not always remember words she had "learned"
- She had not been taught to transfer words into pictures into meaning
Later, when I was helping other right-brained learners, I realized that
over 70% of the children I was seeing had significant tracking issues
-- that is, they skipped words and lines when reading.
When I discussed this with psychologists, optometrists and like-minded professionals I got strange responses:
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Many pediatricians and psychologists downplay the tracking issues. That
bothers me a great deal, because the Visagraph (R) we use shows the
student's eyes skipping, not tracking, and moving in different
directions at times.
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Optometrists are likely to find the tracking issue. but rarely see the
need for the parents to check for a learning difference, which is a
problem for parents and students, because students with tracking issues
are much more likely to be right-brained learners.
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Despite the fact that recent students show that ADHD Medication appears
to have little long term benefits, there is not yet a marked shift to
natural solutions for ADHD.
If you are a parent of a child with reading issues, I strongly recommend your finding out the following:-
Is your child a right-brained learner? If he/she is, consider right-brained program.
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Does your child have tracking issues? If the answer is yes, do address them.
- Does your child have attention issues? Consider natural and effective interventions.
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Many
right-brained learners have either a tracking issue, an attention
issue, or both. To get the maximum results we recommend:
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A program that teaches the way your child learns best.
- Identifying and addressing vision and attention issues.
- Working with professionals who look for and address the right-brained learner, tracking and natural solutions to ADHD.
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Mira Halpert, M.Ed. is the
director and developer of the 3D Learner Program (R). Her passion is
to help right-brained learners to be Outrageously Successful with an
integrated effort between school-based professionals, outside
professionals and parents. For more information go to Parents Make The Difference or call Mira at 561-361-7495.