Third Grade Retention Laws, What You Need to Know is a good article written by Andrew Lee of Understood.

The three key takeaways from the article are:

• Many states have laws that require students to repeat third grade if they can’t read at a certain level.
• These third-grade retention laws differ from state to state.
• In some states, the law offers exceptions for some students.

If your child is at risk for third grade retention, we recommend you:

• Take our Success Assessment with your child
• Call us for a no cost Stress to Success Strategy Session at 561-361-7495
• Take actions starting today to improve your child’s reading comprehension and future success

The Florida third grade retention law has been in place since 2004, and there are three things a parent show know:Third Grade Retention is mandatory if your child does not either pass the third grade English Language Assessment or meet one of the Good Cause Exemptions

Opting out of the third grade English Language Assessment means your child must meet one of the Good Cause Exemptions. These are all harder to meet for the struggling student. For a student who is at risk for third grade retention, we recommend parents fully understand the risks before optiong out.

Improving reading comprehension and reducing test anxiety are two excellent ways to both avoid third grade retention and to prepare your child for 4th grade and beyond

Understanding Third Grade Retention Risks and Your Options

We offer three ways to learn more about how you can help your child to understand why your child may be at risk for avoid third grade retention.  These include:

• A no Cost Success Assessment that screens for a learning difference and attention and eye-teaming issues.  Do this assessment with your child — their answers may surprise you
• Call us at 561-361-7495 for a no cost Stress to Success Assessment where we will explain the risks and ways you can help your child succeed
• We offer an in-office Focus Assessment that includes:
  • Assessing your child’s present leading comprehension level – we often find that a child at risk for third grade retention has a reading comprehension level that is well below grade level — the good news we can often significantly improve your child’s reading comprehension in months not years
  • Assessing for an attention, eye-teaming and anxiety challenge. Parents have been shocked to see how quickly their child loses focus, that their child skips words and/or lines when reading, and/or that their child’s heart rate spikes when we even mention the third grade reading test.  We have seen heart rates go from 90 to over 140 beats per minute when we just mention the test.  Go to Focus Assessment to see the attention and eye-teaming assessments in action.
  • A review of the situation where we provide strategies to help your child succeed and ways we can help

Take action today by either taking our Success Assessment and/or calling us at 561-361-7495 and put your child on his or her Pathway to Success.

Why We Assess for Success vs Assess for Disabilities

“You can assess for success, because parents come to you to help their child succeed.  We are often being asked to identify qualifying conditions for services, so we have to assess for disabilities”, said one frustrated psychologist.

He was right.  At 3D Learner our focus is on helping every student to reach his or her potential.  Identifying disabilities may help students get services from schools.  We help parents to both expedite school based assessments and with referrals to professionals we know, like and trust for assessments for disabilities.  (e.g. On our RTI Trap Page, we provide ways to expedite public and charter school evaluations, while doing the Response to Intervention process and the school-based assessments simultaneously)

When a parent needs a psycho-educational test, we can refer them to a psychologist we know, like and trust — just call us at 561-361-7495 and we can give you options that fit your needs and your budget.

At 3D Learner, we have a 3 tiered process to Assess for Success

1- Our experience with tens of thousands of parents shows us that most smart struggling students have two or three of the following:

• Most smart struggling kids learn differently — that is, they learn best when he or she sees and experience information and are what we call a visual learner
• The majority of students we assess have an attention challenge
• The majority of students we assess have an eye-teaming issue

We have designed a no cost Assess for Success Assessment that screens for the visual learner and whether the student has an attention and/or eye-teaming issue.  We make this available to every parent — with immediate feedback and the opportunity to discuss the results and their child’s specific strengths and challenges

Many local parents start our Assess for Success Process with the Success Assessment and then come into our office for our Focus Assessment

2-  We offer a Focus Assessment where we assess for your child’s present level of reading comprehension and whether they have an attention, eye-teaming and/or anxiety challenge.  Visit our Focus Assessment page where we show how we assess for attention and eye-teaming issues

3- We also offer a Comprehensive Assess for Success Process that includes the all elements of the Focus Assess and the Structure of Intellect Assessment (R) that assesses for how your child learns best, where your child is strong, where your child struggles, and we provide a strategy session to help you understand your child’s profile, and where we discuss what you can do with your child’s school and we discuss program options.

The two best ways to start our Assess for Success Process are to:

• Take the Success Assessment with your child, you will get immediate feedback and we can discuss potential next steps
• Call us at 561-361-7495 to discuss how you can help your child go from Stress to Success in Months Not Years

Dyslexia Treatment For Your Parkland Child

Many Parkland FL Parents who had a child with Dyslexia consider both a Dyslexia Tutor, a Dyslexia Treatment like Lindamood Bell (R) and the 3D Learner Program (R) – a Targeted, Integrated, Engaging and Effective Dyslexia Treatment that address the whole child.

We have had

-Many parents try to find a way to Beat Dyslexia, but are frustrated by the lack of success.  After a number of failed dyslexia treatments, we discovered our child was really a right-brain learner — who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information – teaching to a right-brain learner’s strength can often yield quicker, more significant and longer lasting gains. That gave birth to the 3D Learner Program (R) – that helps smart students who learn differently and is a Boca Raton Dyslexia Treatment — where we do help students from all over the country,

Mom’s Pathway from Dyslexia Stress to Right-Brain Success in Months Not Years

Sarah, a Boca Raton mom,  looked for a Boca Raton Dyslexia Treatment and found two very different solutions – one, the Bright-Solutions option and our 3D Learner Program. 

–  Bright-Solutions where they said:

IMPORTANT: There is no quick fix or silver bullet for dyslexia. It can take from 1 to 3 years to get a dyslexic child reading and spelling at grade level, depending upon their level of severity, the frequency of their tutoring or intervention, and other issues.

We have heard this – and we think there is some truth to this.  If you have your child go for dyslexia testing and then you pursue a traditional dyslexia treatment it could take 1 to 3 years to get your child back to grade level.  This program requires a dyslexic child to master each skill before the students can move on.

–  3D Learner — where we say, most students with dyslexia can achieve Success in Months Not Years with strength-based training.  Note, we are careful to say this is not true for every student.  The vast majority of our students can get back to grade level in months, but for the low IQ student or where compliance is poor, the results will not be as quick or as significant.

Now let’s look at Matthew

Matthew’s mother pursued Dyslexia Testing which confirmed the dyslexia and the recommendations were for three dyslexia Boca Raton Dyslexia Treatments.

Progress was slow with the first two dyslexia treatments and then two different friends told her about 3D Learner.

Mom did our Success Assessment,  that showed her child learned different and had attention and eye-teaming issues.  She called and …

Mom asked us, “I have heard  that dyslexia is not caused by vision problems, but your assessment and my new perspective is that my child has a vision problem

We would embrace the old definition of dyslexia — a problem with reading, writing or math for a child with average or above average intelligence.  The first two things we would test for are:

–  Is the child a right-brain learner, who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information.  If this is the case, you want to at least consider a right-brain program that plays to your child’s strengths

–  Does your child have an attention, eye-teaming and/or an anxiety challenge that might be holding your child back.

A right-brain learner with an attention and eye-teaming issues is often diagnosed with dyslexia — and their learning strength and eye-teaming issues are often missed.

Dyslexia testing is the norm, but if your child learns best when he or she sees and experiences information, you may want to take our Success Assessment that screens for both a learning difference and attention, eye-teaming and related issues.  If your child is a right-brain learner, then consider a right-brain program that engages your child, teaches the way your child learns best and often delivers better results in less time.

For more information visit 3D Learner