The Florida Empowerment Scholarship For Unique Abilities – FES UA Voucher Program and Others Expanded for New Students Through December 15th, 2023 at 5pm

The Florida Empowerment Scholarship For Unique Abilities – FES UA Voucher Program and Others Expanded for New Students Through December 15th, 2023 at 5pm

Sign up for one hour of training and we will provide valuable insights on whether your child has dyslexia, their present reading comprehension level and more.

Our focus is on the visual learner, kinesthetic learner or neurodivergent learner, who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information.  We also identify and address dyslexia, ADHD, visual processing issues and executive function challenges.

We are Dyslexia certified trained for the UFLI ® Program — the University of Florida’s Reading Intervention that incorporates a Core Assessment, and an engaging and effective dyslexia treatment.  This is an Orton-Gillingham based program.

Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss your situation or to schedule a time to
Discuss How Your Child Can Make Significant Gains in months

The Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities (FES – UA) has been changed.  They are now accepting new students through December 15th, 2023.  This is for homeschool and private school students with a qualifying disability.   Here is a list of qualifying disabilities.  Parents can register at https://www.stepupforstudents.org/scholarships/unique-abilities/ (FES UA).  

According to our sources, those granted the FES – UA scholarship now will be given the full scholarship amount for the year.  This will allow for an intensive and game changing effort.

We provide integrated, engaging and effective training – both live in Coral Springs and Boca Raton and via zoom.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how we can help your child and you, call 3D Learner at 561-361-7395 or click here to schedule  a Conversation on How The Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities can help your child    

3D Learner is a provider for this program

Homeschool successes with 3D Learner. We have helped:

7 ways 3D Learner is different than any other provider:

  1. Our hands-on program is designed to help the right brain learner, kinesthetic learner or neurodivergent learner who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information,
  2. We address both reading fluency and reading comprehensionWe have had students make 2, 3 and even 4-year gains in their reading comprehension in 4 to 6 months.  While we are a hands-on program, we also address phonemic awareness and reading fluency with the University of Florida’s UFLI Program ®.
  3. We identify and address executive function, visual processing and related issues,
  4. We strive to ignite a love for learning, while boosting self-esteem
  5. We help parents to be even more effective coaches for their child,
  6. We tailor our program to meet the individual child’s needs.  We can also address math and writing issues.
  7. Our assessment, that can be done live or online, will show a parent:
    • How your child learns best
    • Their learning strengths and challenges
    • Whether there is an executive function or visual processing issue
    • The child’s present level of performance for both reading fluency and reading comprehension

Note, we do provide our services in Boca Raton and Coral Springs, FL and via zoom.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how we can help your child and you, call 3D Learner at 561-361-7395 or click here to schedule  a Conversation on How The Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities can help your child.

3D Learner is best known for helping bright right brain kinesthetic learners succeed.  These are the students who learn best when they see and experience information and who are often a lot smarter than present results would indicate.

3D Learner has helped many homeschool and private school students improve their:

  • Reading fluency
  • Reading comprehension — often, but two, three or even four grade levels in months
  • Self-confidence and so much more (e.g. attention, executive function skills, math etc.)

Our first goal is to help parents with a child who learns differently to realize their child can do far better with strength-based training.  We often start with a no cost Stress to Success Conversation parents can have by either calling us at 561-361-7495 or clicking on Stress to Success Conversation and finding a mutually agreeable time to talk.

Our second goal is to help you as a parent to understand your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension levels and to determine where your child is at, what help they need, and to tailor a solution to help your child to be all he or she can be.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss how we can help your child and you, call 3D Learner at 561-361-7395 or click here to schedule  a Conversation on How The Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities can help your child              

A Dyslexia Treatment is Often Not Enough for a Bright Right Brain Learner with Dyslexia To Improve Reading Comprehension

A Dyslexia Treatment is Often Not Enough for a Bright Right Brain Learner with Dyslexia To Improve Reading Comprehension

A dyslexia treatment that follows the Science of Reading will help Reading Fluency but may not significantly improve reading comprehension.

The challenge is that many students with dyslexia are also a right brain kinesthetic learner, who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information.  For the right brain kinesthetic learner with dyslexia, additional strategies and interventions may be necessary to address their specific challenges.

The Science of Reading is an evidence-based approach to teaching reading that emphasizes phonics, phonemic awareness, and other foundational skills. While it is effective for improving reading fluency, it’s important to note that reading comprehension is a multifaceted skill that involves various cognitive processes beyond just decoding words.


Note, if your child does not have dyslexia but learns differently, all the other efforts discussed below to improve visual processing, executive function skills and reading comprehension may be needed.


Note, these students’ profiles often include a combination of 2, 3 or 4 of the following: the student often learns differently, has auditory or visual processing issues, and very often has more than one executive function challenge that may include attention, working memory, processing speed and …


Most students with dyslexia are also a right brain, visual or kinesthetic learner with a visual processing and/or executive function challenge. 

 

Specific problems we see in right brain kinesthetic learners with dyslexia may include:

 

Problems recognizing words they have seen and not mastered.

Vocabulary instruction: Enhancing word knowledge is crucial for understanding the meaning of texts. 

Sight word vocabulary — where the right brain kinesthetic learner does not have a picture for what the words mean.

Visual processing issues frequently occur in this population.

Working memory.  A dyslexia treatment and building language skills often requires students to learn and remember rules.  This can be difficult for a student with a weak memory.                   

Processing speed.  Many students with dyslexia process information slowly, but it can be improved.

Reading comprehension strategies: Teaching specific strategies, such as visualizing, summarization, questioning, and making connections to their own experiences, can help students with dyslexia improve their comprehension skills.  For the right brain kinesthetic learner, the student will often benefit from a hands-on and visual approach that teaches them what the word looks like and creates a visual for what the words and passages mean.

Text structure or sequence awareness: Understanding how different types of texts are structured can aid comprehension. Explicit instruction in recognizing and understanding sequences can be helpful.

Background knowledge development: Building background knowledge using pictures or videos can improve comprehension. Reading a wide range of texts on different topics and relating to their own experiences can contribute to this.

Explicit instruction in comprehension skills: Providing direct instruction in specific comprehension skills, such as identifying main ideas, drawing conclusions, and making predictions, can be beneficial.

It’s important to recognize that dyslexia is a neuro-biological condition that affects the way the brain processes written and spoken language. As such, a comprehensive and individualized approach to intervention is often necessary, taking into account the unique needs and strengths of each student with dyslexia.  

To improve reading fluency and reading comprehension for students with dyslexia who are right brain kinesthetic learners, the student often needs:

  • A dyslexia treatment to improve reading fluency.
  • A more visual kinesthetic approach to word recognition, spelling and vocabulary.
  • Auditory and/or visual processing issues identified and addressed.
  • Executive function issues identified and addressed.
  • Reading comprehension strategies that utilize relevant text and that leverage the student’s ability to learn best when they see and experience information.

 If you would like to discuss your situation, you can either call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to find a time on our schedule to discuss “Your Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner with Dyslexia”.

Summer Program to Improve Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Executive Function and Boost Confidence

Summer Program to Improve Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Executive Function and Boost Confidence

(Call us at 561-361-7495 if you would like to discuss how your child can make significant progress this summer)

70% of our clients contact us to improve their child’s reading comprehension and executive function skills.  30% of our clients want to improve reading comprehension and executive function skills and have a Dyslexia Treatment to improve their child’s reading fluency, too.

As of July 1, we will be entering our 27th year in business.  What is really troubling is that more students than anytime in our career are further behind in reading fluency, reading comprehension and math. To make matters worse, more students lack the foundational skills and confidence needed to succeed.  Our goal is to help our students to make significant gains in months, to address the relevant academic skills and to identify and address the key foundation skills that are missing. We also strive to reduce anxiety, boost confidence and instill a love for learning.

If you want to have a conversation on Creating a Pathway from Stress to Outrageous Success for your child,
– Call us at 561-361-7495 or
– Find a mutually agreeable time on our schedule by clicking on Let’s Schedule a Conversation.

On Thursday May 4th, we will be hosting a webinar at 8:30 pm on a
Summer Program to Dramatically Improve Reading Fluency, Reading
Comprehension, Executive Function Skills and Confidence. 

Click here to register for our  Parents make The Difference Webinar

What makes 3D Learner a unique offering:

  • We tailor our program to meet the key goals we set with parents.  These might include: improving reading comprehension by 2, 3 or even 4 grade levels in 4 to 6 months; improving reading fluency; improving attention, working memory and/or processing speed; addressing visual processing in a way that improves academics and athletic skills: and/or reducing anxiety, building confidence and igniting a love for learning
  • Our assessment process evaluates reading fluency, reading comprehension, executive function skills, visual processing, how your child learns best, where your child is strong and where they struggle.   We then incorporate a debrief that results in setting goals for the next 4 to 6 months.  If you would like, we then provide program options that can address some or all of the relevant issues.  

Our process allows us to identify the bright right brain kinesthetic learner, who is often much smarter than present results would indicate.  We also provide an in-depth look at how your child’s eyes track when reading; whether your child has an attention, working memory and/or processing speed issue; and to what extent there are issues with decoding, phonemic aware, and reading fluency

Our process starts with an assessment that identifies: the right brain kinesthetic learner; whether there are a visual processing, working memory, processing speed and/or attention issue; whether dyslexia is present; and your child’s present level of reading comprehension.

We also provide parent training that helps you to become even more effective coaches and advocates for your child.

  • We use the UFLI Program ® to improve decoding, phonemic awareness and reading fluency, where needed.  This program moves at a faster pace than most, but reinforces what the student has learned throughout the process.  This is a dyslexia treatment that fits well into our program.
  • We target the areas of greatest need.  Often this includes some combination of reading comprehensionreading fluency, executive function, visual processing and reducing anxiety, while building confidence.  Note, the length of our program depends on your child’s needs and your goals.

It is important to note, that while a number of our students have made considerable gains, these are not possible for all students.   We see the most significant gains in the student with above average and even gifted IQs who are performing well below their potential. We strive to be BOLD but realistic when we set goals.  

Note, our program was designed for our daughter who was able to improve her reading comprehension 4.2 grade levels in 7 months.  Today, our clients are mostly between the ages of 6 and 17.

What delights us is that we can help students to make significant gains.  The first place we really make the difference is with our initial conversation.  Three examples:

  • Mom called with a problem that is impacting many students today.  The private school her son attended suggested she find a different school for her son, based on his reading comprehension being 2 years below grade level.  She called us and after 10 minutes she commented, “How is it you know my son better than anyone at his school who have known him for 4 years”.  She came to us from out of state and her son improved his comprehension 3 grade levels in a year.  His teacher said, “Thomas made more progress in a year than any student I have had in 27 years of teaching
  • Mom called from the state of Washington.  She had been told her son was a right brain visual learner, who learned best when he saw and experienced information.  She too was surprised how well we knew her child.  Her son was able to improve his reading comprehension 4 grade levels in 7 months and blossom as a student.
  • A local mom called us.  She heard about us from a friend, where we had helped her friend’s gifted son go from the 58th to the 99th percentile in reading comprehension.  Note, he later went to MIT.  Mom had a son who was smart, but his reading comprehension was 4 years below grade level.  Her challenge was that her son did not realize how smart he was.  Our assessment showed that as he was about to enter 9th grade, he was at college level on 9 out of the 26 skills we assessed and only had 4 areas where he was weak.  For the first time he saw himself as a smart kid who learned differently.  In less than 4 months, he was able to improve his reading comprehension from the 5th to the 9th grade level and increase his reading speed from 200 to 360 words per minute.  He went onto get several full college scholarships

All this starts when the parents engaged in a conversation to discover how her child could succeed.

Click here to register for our  Parents make The Difference Webinar

If you want to have a conversation on Creating a Pathway from Stress to Outrageous Success for your child,
– Call us at 561-361-7495 or
– Find a mutually agreeable time on our schedule by clicking on Let’s Schedule a Conversation

 

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Complete a Comprehensive Assessment in May and receive the Safe and Sound Protocol ® — ordinarily a $300 investment — that will help your child and you reduce stress and anxiety
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Beating Dyslexia for Your Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner

Beating Dyslexia for Your Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner

Beating Dyslexia is really hard.  This is especially true if your child is a Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic  Learner with Dyslexia.  Note, it is far easier for these kids to succeed if you:

    • Address the dyslexia and
    • Leverage experiential learning to capitalize on their strengths
    • Identify and address their executive function and/or visual processing issues that are often present
    • Ignite a love for learning
    • Help the parents to be the coach and advocate their child needs

Beating Dyslexia with an Integrated Solution

Lisa had spent over $30,000 on an excellent dyslexia treatment for her daughter.  The challenges included:

    • A year later her daughter’s reading comprehension was still at the 1st grade level as she was about to enter 5th grade
    • Homework was taking 2.5 hours a night for both her daughter and Lisa
    • Her daughter was a slow reader and avoided reading
    • Both mom and daughter were anxious, frustrated and exhausted

Lisa visited our website and then scheduled a no cost Beat Dyslexia conversation.  Our first 5 questions all resonated with Lisa:

    1. Does your child remember places visited, even from years ago?
    2. Does your child learn best when she sees and experiences information?
    3. Does your child skip words and/or lines when reading
    4. Is your child a lot smarter than present results would indicate?
    5. Would you like to know how your child can make significant gains in months?

Lisa asked if her prior investment in a dyslexia treatment had been in vain.  We assured her it was not.  She then asked, “How is it that you know my daughter so well, without even meeting her?”

We explained that we had been in a similar situation with our daughter. When we were told our daughter was not college material, her mom, Mira Halpert, who has her Masters in Education from the University of Michigan, became a Mom on a Mission.  With what has become known as the 3D Learner Program ®, our daughter improved her reading comprehension 4.2 grade levels in 7 months and went on her earn her Masters in Education From the University of Florida, become the teacher she never had, and is on track to get her Doctorate in Education.  

We also shared with Lisa that we had helped hundreds of dyslexic students succeed with our integrated experiential learning approach.

With our help, Lisa’s daughter was able to:

  • Improve her reading comprehension 4 grade levels within 6 months
  • Double her reading speed from 115 to 229 words per minute
  • Reduce her homework time from 2.5 to 1.25 hours per night.
  • Decrease the amount of time mom had to spend doing homework with her daughter from 2.5 hours to 15 minutes — saving over 11 hours a week
  • Lower the anxiety level and improve her daughter’s self-esteem.
  • Ignite a love for learning

3D Learner Partners with Parents Who Want To Do Far More Than to Just Beat Dyslexia

3D Learner has helped many bright right brain learners with dyslexia to significantly improve their reading, reading comprehension, attention and working memory and so much more.  For immediate help, either:

Call us at 561-361-7495 or
–  Click here to schedule a no cost Beat Dyslexia for Your Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner Conversation

Is Your Child a Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner with Dyslexia?

We know that most smart struggling students with dyslexia:

  • Are Right-brain, visual or kinesthetic learners (hands-on) who can do far better with experiential learning that leverages their strengths
  • Have some combination of working memory, processing speed, visual processing, attention, and/or anxiety challenges
  • Often have a visual processing issue — where they read slowly and/or skip words and lines when reading.  Note, there are many articles that say that dyslexia is not caused by a visual processing issue.  That is true, but in our experience 
Over 70% of the students we have had with dyslexia had a visual processing issue. These are two very different conditions that often coexist in the same child.

Beating Dyslexia and Preparing Your Child for Future Success Can Best Be Done
by Leveraging Your Child’s Strengths and Identifying and Addressing Their Challenge

  • Are much smarter than present results would indicate

At 3D Learner, we have helped many students to:

  • Beat dyslexia improve their reading and reading comprehension 
  • Rediscover their natural love of learning
  • Improve their executive function skills, their visual processing  and their self-esteem
  • Improve their attention and emotional regulation
  • Achieve far greater success than their parents even thought possible

Our programs can help the right brain, visual learner or kinesthetic learner with dyslexia to make significant gains in months.  3D Learner’s comprehensive educational assessment reveals important issues that many other assessments miss. 


For instance, one parent had a recent psycho-educational test that indicated her daughter had dyslexia, attention, working memory and processing speed issues. After her daughter completed our assessment, she was surprised to learn that her daughter:

  1. Was a right brain, visual learner or kinesthetic learner 
  2. Was a lot smarter than present results would indicate
  3. Had a significant visual processing issue,  skipping words and lines when reading
  4. Struggled with reading comprehension and sequencing
  5. Had significant attention and emotional regulation issues
  6. Was very strong in 5 of the 11 skills we assessed — she had a great visual memory, was very creative and had a larger vocabulary than most
  7. But she had a real problem with the small words that often change the meaning of a sentence (i.e. words like the, but, what, if)

When Lisa’s mom saw the results, she asked “Why do schools not teach the way the right brain kinesthetic learner learns best?”  We explained that schools, like most learning centers, focus on a child’s weaknesses.

Schools often do not:

  • Leverage the student’s strengths and interests
  • Identify and address issues like working memory, visual processing, or processing speed
  • Ignite a love for learning, which is an essential part of the 3D Learner Experiential Learning Process.
  • Help parents to be the coach and advocate their child needs

For immediate help, either:

Call us at 561-361-7495 or
–  Click here to schedule a no cost Beat Beat Dyslexia for Your Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner Conversation

Dyslexia Treatment for the Right-Brain Kinesthetic Learner

Dyslexia Treatment for the Right-Brain Kinesthetic Learner

(Located in Coral Springs — In Person and Zoom Training Available serving clients
from Parkland, Boca Raton, Coral Springs, South Florida and Nationwide)

Many students with dyslexia are a right brain kinesthetic learner.  We start with 7 key premises:

  • The right brain kinesthetic learner learns best when they see and experience information.  
  • A dyslexia treatment needs to address phonics and phonemic awareness
  • The right brain kinesthetic learner often has a visual processing issue.  They tend to have good peripheral vision, but their eyes often have difficulty converging.  This results in their skipping words and lines when reading.  We identify and address this issue, and work with optometrists.
  • Working memory, processing speed and/or attention issues are quite common in this population.  These are often the kids who can hyper focus on a video game and know the rules but have difficulty paying attention to that which is boring.  
  • Too often the right brain kinesthetic learner is defined by what he or she cannot do.  These kids are often much smarter than present results would indicate
  • Many of these kids fall further and further behind, but significant progress can be made in months
  • Informed, Empowered and Proactive Parents Make The Difference

If this sounds like your child, we offer a no cost Stress to Success conversation you can have by either:
–  Calling us at 561-361-7495 or
 –  Clicking here to schedule a Stress to Success Conversation

A Mom on a Search for a Dyslexia Treatment That Works

A bright right brain kinesthetic learner had never come up in three years of her searching.

Mom was searching for a better dyslexia treatment.  Her dyslexic daughter was really struggling with:

  • Reading comprehension
  • Dyslexia
  • ADHD
  • Homework time and stress — where it was often taking 2.5 hours to complete in 4th grade
  • Self-esteem and anxiety

We asked mom what she had tried.  The first dyslexia treatment was done by a traditional dyslexia tutor.  The second was an investment of over $34,000.  The challenge was her daughter’s reading comprehension was still at the 1st grade level as she entered 5th grade.

She knew her daughter had dyslexia and ADHD but was unsure what would help.

When she read an internet article on the right brain learner with dyslexia she was intrigued.  Her daughter did learn best when she saw and experienced information.

It surprised her that most students with dyslexia are what we call right brain kinesthetic learners.

The terms right brain learner, kinesthetic learner and visual learner — are often used to describe the same child.

When she completed our visual learner screening tool, it was clear her daughter was a visual learner and would benefit from an approach that played to her strengths.

Mom was really surprised when she did our visual screening tool.  Her daughter’s answers showed she appeared to have a significant visual processing issue.

But mom was confused.  How could her daughter:

  • Be a right brain kinesthetic learner without anyone ever identifying it
  • Have what appeared to be a visual processing issues that no one ever identified
  • Be struggling for years, without the right help — despite a massive investment of time and money

Mom then scheduled a no cost Stress to Success Conversation with 3D Learner, and learned that …

A Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner with Dyslexia, Executive Function and/or a Visual Processing Issue – is More Common Than You Might Think

Mom asked if Dyslexia, Executive Function challenges, and Visual Processing issues were often present in a right brain kinesthetic learner. One or both are often present. The Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner often has executive function and
visual processing issues, and may have dyslexia

Mom’s concerns included:

  • Reading comprehension that was at the first-grade level — and her daughter was in 5th grade
  • Her daughter was a slow reader and avoided reading
  • Homework was taking 2.5 hours a night for both her daughter and mom
  • Anxiety was rising for both of them
  • There was no time to be a kid and enjoy life
The family was from Texas, and we are in Florida.

They came to Florida for a week and there were some clear issues and opportunities:

  • We confirmed that her daughter’s reading comprehension was at the first-grade level
  • Her reading speed was 115 words per minute, much slower than normal
  • Attention was an issue
  • The visual processing issue was real
  • Mom dad and their child were eager to succeed

Over the next 6 months, their daughter improved as follows:

  • Reading comprehension improved 4 grade levels 
  • Reading speed doubled
  • Homework time decreased as follows:
    • 50 percent for their daughter — saving over 6 hours a week
    • 2 hours a night for mom — saving 10 hours a week
  • Visual processing improved
  • Their daughter learned how to learn as a right brain kinesthetic learner

If You Suspect Your Child is a Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner

Download our “Is your child a visual learner” screening tool”  

If your child has 10 or more of the characteristics, your child may well be a visual learner

Download our “Does my child have a visual processing issue” screening tool. Score one point for each infrequently, two points for sometimes, three points for fairly often and four points for always.  A total of 16 points or higher indicates a visual processing challenge may exist.

Then, if you would like to discuss how to Transform Stress to Success, schedule a conversation by either

Calling us directly at 561-361-7495
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