(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 comprehension, reading 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
Our Assessment Special
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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For immediate help call us at 561-361-7495 or join us May 2nd for our Beat Grade Retention Webinar
There is a Silver Lining to Avoid Third Grade Retention and Other Grade Retention Risks
“Your child is at risk of third grade retention”, was the note from her daughter’s school. Mom was not happy. She called a friend who suggested she contact 3D Learner. She immediately called us and we asked the following questions:
- Does your child learn best when he sees and experiences information?
- Does your child skip words and lines when reading?
- Does your child lose focus when reading or taking tests?
- Does your child read slowly?
- Is your child a lot smarter than her present reading comprehension level would indicate?
Her answers were yes to all the questions, and she commented that it was like we knew her daughter.
The friend had told her that we had helped her child increase her reading comprehension to above grade level and her daughter was reading above grade level on her 4th grade test. She wanted to know if that was possible for her child. We explained that that is our goal.
The good news is that her daughter beat third grade retention, scored above grade level in 4th and 5th grades after working hard and completing the 3D Learner Program ®. She continues to do well in middle school.
We have helped many students beat both third grade retention and grade retention in the earlier grades.
We have a three-pronged strategy:
- Provide the student and the parent with strategies to produce better test results with exercises to reduce stress, recommendations on sleep and diet, how to make sure your child gets the accommodations that are prescribed in an IEP or 504 Plan, and how to talk to your child to reduce their stress and boost their confidence. Click here for a video we created with “Strategies to reduce your child’s stress and anxiety”.
- We understand all the Good Cause Exemptions that can be used to avoid third grade retention.
- Significantly improve reading comprehension and test scores by:
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- Capitalizing on how our students learn best. Most of our students are bright right brain kinesthetic learners, who do far better with our engaging and effective hands-on learning
- Identifying and addressing visual processing issues, where needed. Over 70 percent of the students we test either skip words and lines when reading and/or read slowly
- Identifying the executive function skills that are impacting a student’s performance. This might include attention, working memory and/or processing speed
- Addressing the relevant decoding, phonemic awareness and reading fluency challenges, whether or not a child has dyslexia
- Teaching the student visualization skills to relate and understand what they are reading
- We strive to ignite a love for learning
- Systematically improving reading comprehension levels — often by 2 grade levels over 3 to 6 months
This visual explains the 3D Learner Process
Most students at risk for third grade retention or any other grade retention are often a right brain kinesthetic learner and often struggle with visual processing, executive function deficits, dyslexia and/or anxiety. The best way to help these students is to significantly improve their reading comprehension and test scores by capitalizing on their strengths, addressing their challenges and building their self-esteem and confidence.
If your child is facing third grade retention or any grade retention and you would like help,
Call us at 561-361-7495 for a no cost conversation, or
Click here to find a mutually agreeable time on our schedule for a
Avoid Grade Retention Conversation
We encourage you to join us on May 2nd at 8:30 pm for a
Beat Third Grade Retention and Other Grade Retention Risks.
We will provide an explanation of why many students are retained and how parents can help their child to beat grade retention.
Background Information on Third Grade Retention & Other Grade Retention
Mandatory third grade retention is a key strategy some states use. Sometimes this results in schools using grade retention in earlier grades. The theory is that students need to be on grade level by the end of third grade in order to succeed. In states like Florida, third grade retention laws have been in place for over 20 years. The short-term benefits from grade retention tend to dissipate over time. As a parent, if your child is facing grade retention, the pressure is real — on both your child and you.
Note, most students at risk for grade retention are right brain kinesthetic learners, who can significantly improve their reading comprehension skills with a strength-based approach.
5 points for parents to consider:
- There are many ways to avoid third grade retention and grade retention in earlier grades. In Florida, there are a number of good cause exemptions to third grade retention. Here is a link to a Florida Department of Education document that describes the options.
- Note, there are some parents who are focused on having students opt out of the end of year testing. One word of caution: the easiest path to promotion is to get a Level 2 on the last test given in May. It requires your child to be at about the 20th percentile. If you opt out, all the other options are harder to achieve.
- Encourage parents to get more help, so their child no longer struggles.
Note, virtually all students at risk for grade retention are well below grade level in reading comprehension.
- To provide an option where the goal is to help your child to become Outrageously Successful in months by improving reading comprehension, executive functions skills and reducing anxiety.
- To encourage those who would like more information to
Join us on Tuesday night May 2nd for a Webinar on
Parents Guide to Avoid Grade Retention and
Help Your Child Be Outrageously Successful
If you need immediate help,
a) Please contact us directly by calling 561-361-7495
b) Clicking here to schedule a Zoom meeting at a mutually agreeable time for a
Beat Grade Retention Conversation
Ask About Our May Assessment Special to reduce anxiety and stress
Over the last two years, we have assessed a number of students and seen seven trends:
- Executive function deficits are the most common problem – these include problems with attention, working memory, processing speed and related skills
- Reading comprehension levels are further below grade level than at any point in our 26 years in assessing students
- Many students lack the language skills needed to succeed
- Visual processing challenges are more common and the issues are often more severe
- Dyslexia is more common and students are often lacking the basic phonics, phonemic awareness and related skills they need to succeed
- More programs than ever are attacking dyslexia, but do not necessarily capitalize on these student’s strengths or address the executive function and visual processing issues.
- Parents want to help but are overwhelmed.
Over the last 26 years, 3D Learner has helped thousands of students succeed with an approach that helps parents see their child’s potential for growth when they:
Reject the status quo and look for solutions that:
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- Identify and capitalize on their child’s strengths
- Identify and address their child’s weaknesses
- Boost their child’s self-esteem and lower their anxiety
- Is tailored to help their child to make significant gains within months
- Helps parents to be even more effective coaches and advocates for their child
We suggest you contact us to start a conversation that allows you to discuss your child’s challenges and gifts and learn how you can make the difference.
Assess for Success. School based assessments are specifically designed to identify or rule out certain conditions (e.g dyslexia, learning disabilities, ADHD, working memory, processing speed etc). Our goals are to identify:
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- How a child learns best and where they are strong
- Where they struggle, with a focus on executive function skills, visual processing, language and dyslexia
- Their present level of performance, especially for reading comprehension
- A tailored solution that can help a student make dramatic gains in months
Our Story
We have been there with our own kids. With my daughter, dyslexia was the diagnosis and we tried one dyslexic treatment after another. It improved our daughter’s reading fluency, that is how efficiently and effectively she could read out loud. Unfortunately, she continued to struggle with:
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- Reading comprehension
- Executive function skills — attention, working memory and processing speedAnxiety and frustration – who wouldn’t be frustrated if you were a lot smarter than present results indicated
In 8th grade, we were told our daughter was not college material, because her reading comprehension was 3 years below grade level. I became a mom on a mission. I am Mira Halpert. I have my Master’s in Education and significant educational experience, but I needed a different set of tools.
With the 3D Learner Program ® I developed, my daughter improved her reading comprehension 4.2 grade levels in 7 months. She will soon complete her 19th year of teaching. Next year, she will earn her PHD.
Over the last 26 years, 3D Learner has helped thousands of smart kids succeed.
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- A kindergarten student who was really struggling who aced the first grade final the first week of first grade
- A 1st grader who was really struggling who is now going to Emory Univeristy
- A 2nd grader who improved her reading comprehension 2 grade levels in 4 months and 3 grade levels in 7 months, after being stuck for two years
- A 3rd grader who made more progress than any student his teacher had had in 27 years of teaching
- A 4th grader whose parents were told to send him to a school for students with dyslexia who wound up at Harvard
- A 5th grader whose reading comprehension was at the 1st grade level, she read slowly and homework time took forever. She improved her reading comprehension 4.2 grade levels, doubled her reading speed and cut her homework time by 50 percent. She also did it independently
- Middle and high school students who improved their comprehension 3 and even 4 grade levels in 4 months and who dramatically improved their sports skills
Questions for you to consider
Is your child a bright right brain kinesthetic learner?
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- Does your child remember places, even from years ago?
- Does your child learn best when he or she sees and experiences information?
- Is your child a lot smarter than present results would indicate?
If the answers are yes, there is a good chance your child is a right brain kinesthetic learner. Dr. Linda Silverman has developed a 15 question screening tool to identify the right brain kinesthetic learner. Click here to see if your child might be a right brain kinesthetic learner.
Studies have shown that over 60 percent of the students today learn best when they see and experience information. Many of the other students are more logical, sequential and auditory, which is the way schools often teach. As a result, these right brain kinesthetic learners make up a significant percentage of the smart struggling students.
These are the students we do very well with,
The infographic below shows the 5 key attributes of these students. That is they are:
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- Often a right brain kinesthetic learner
- Virtually all of them either have executive function challenges that might include:
- Attention to that which is boring or frustrating
- Working memory – they often have an excellent memory for that which they see and experience and a much weaker memory for that which they hear or read
- Processing speed — like the old 56k modems, they download visuals very slowly
- Visual processing issues are found in over 70 percent of our students. That is they see and experience information.
- Close to 40 percent of our students are struggling with dyslexia and/or learning disabilities
- Anxiety and/or frustration are often present
Since our goal is to tailor a program to improve reading fluency, reading comprehension, executive function, math skills and lower anxiety, we need to assess the whole child.
If you would like to discuss your child’s situation,
a) Call us at 561-361-7495
b) Click here to schedule a zoom meeting:
Assess for Success Conversation
We encourage you to call us to discuss how you can significantly improve your child’s executive function skills, reading comprehension, self-esteem and so much more.
In another blog post, we shared “How to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension and Executive Function skills for your child.
In this blog post we will discuss, “Why to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension and Executive Function Skills for Your Child”.
Note, while Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension and Executive Function skills are an issue for half our students, half of students just have Reading Comprehension and Executive Function issues.
A number of parents have shared, “My child reads beautifully, but they do not understand what they read”.
Let’s consider 12 reasons why you might want to improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension and Executive Function skills now!!! Consider all 12, because in most cases there are 3, 5 and even 7 or more reasons why now is the time to act.
1, The most pressing reasons include:
a) Grade retention is an issue and reading comprehension and executive function skills need to be improved
b) Getting into a specific private school is dependent on improving your child’s test scores and again reading comprehension and executive function skills need to be improved
c) Your child is going to a new school and you want them better prepared to succeed
2. You just invested in a psycho-educational evaluation, and they made some recommendations, you know you need and you understand the need to act.
3. You realize the distinction between:
a) Reading fluency — being able to accurately and efficiently read a passage
b) Reading comprehension – being able to understand what he or she reads
c) Executive function skills — where working memory, attention and/or processing speed negatively impact results
And you realize all these issues need to be addressed to help your child succeed.
4. You recognize that kids like yours often fall further and further behind. Even worse, schools have so many kids who have fallen far behind, it is impossible for your child to catch up.
5. You become aware of a different way of teaching that focuses on both teaching to your child’s strengths and identifying and addressing their challenges.
6. The anxiety and frustration your child is feeling is taxing on them and you. You know they feel bad about their performance and you want to address the issue ASAP.
7. Your child’s struggles with reading fluency and reading comprehension are not new, but now they are impacting science, social studies and math, where there is more reading than ever.
8. Your child’s test scores are low and their public or charter school is recommending a double or triple dose of reading, and you do not think that will help. Even worse, it will deprive your child of their electives.
9. The private school they are at, are recommending either an expensive tutoring package, if you want your child to return to that school, or an even more expensive academy option. You want to know if there is a better option.
10. Homework or home school teaching is exhausting and frustrating. Acknowledge that next year is likely to be worse as the math word problems get tougher, the reading more challenging, and the work more demanding.
11. You want your child to love learning and to enjoy being a kid. You also want to trade in the hard work, for a far better way that leverages the talents of educators who know how to help your child succeed.
12. You realize that when you improve your child’s reading fluency and reading comprehension and executive function skills you can help them to be far more successful in school and in life.
Join us on April 4th at 9 pm for a Webinar on
Why and How to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension.
To register – click on Why and how to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension. We will make this valuable to all parents, and we urge you to participate in the conversation!
To join the webinar CLICK HERE
We will post the webinar on our 3D Learner YouTube Channel, in case you are not able to join us.
If you would like to discuss Why and How to Improve Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension and Executive Function Skills with us individually, you can either:
5 Initial Actions Parents Can Do Before The Next School Year
Reading fluency and reading comprehension difficulties are major issues that are impacting many students. Executive function issues impact both. With the summer learning slide, we expect problems with reading comprehension and math word problems will get more challenging next year as:
- Many students did not master the basics of reading ( before the pandemic, and the gap has widened)
- Most students will fall further behind over the summer and struggle even more as the books they must read get harder.
Note: we offer two ways to learn more
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We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday April 4th at 9 pm EDST to go over these issues and more and to answer your questions. To register – click on Improving Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension. We will make this valuable to all parents, and we urge you to participate in the conversation!
To join the webinar CLICK HERE
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You can have a conversation with us by either
Calling us at 561-361-7495 or
Scheduling a conversation — you can find available times at www.3dlearner.com/booknow
The 5 Steps we recommend parents take before the next school year are to:
- Understand the difference between reading fluency and reading comprehension
- Reading fluency is how accurately and efficiently your child reads words
- Reading comprehension is how well your child understands what is being read
A number of school administrators have told parents that the reading fluency and reading comprehension scores are often the same. This is not true for many of our kids. Be sure to ask for both. Sometimes one parent understands the difference between the two, but more often than not both do not understand it.
- Talk with your child’s teacher and find out:
- What your child’s present level of reading fluency is
- What your child’s present level of reading comprehension is
- Speak with outside professionals on:
- Whether their program focuses on reading fluency and/or reading comprehension
- Do they identify and address executive function issues (e.g., working memory, processing speed and attention)
- Do they identify and address visual processing issues? This issue is very common and often either missed and/or not addressed
- Will they help you to be the coach and advocate your child needs
- Will they help you secure the help your child needs from their school
- What kind of growth can one expect over the summer for a child like yours?
Note: many reading programs focus a great deal of their effort on phonics, phonemic awareness and reading fluency. At 3D Learner, we focus on reading fluency, reading comprehension, executive function skills, visual processing and helping you to be the coach and advocate your child needs. We also help to reduce anxiety and to boost self-esteem.
We have had students make significant gains over the summer. Every child is different; Understanding what all the issues are, helps to know what gains might be possible. An assessment is vital.
- Evaluate your options based on:
- Progress they have made with students like your child
- Whether they teach the way your child learns best
- Is their program likely to be relevant, engaging and effective for your child
- Whether they tailor a program to meet your child’s needs or assess and use a standard program of their choice
- Do they assess for address other issues your child might have like
- Working memory
- Processing speed
- Attention
- Visual processing
- Auditory processing
- Anxiety
- Self-esteem challenges
- Do they help you set goals and track results throughout the program
- Do they help you to be the coach and advocate your child needs
- Would they help you get the accommodations and support needed from your child’s school
- What references say
- Make the program a priority, do what is necessary and work to achieve or exceed the goals, while making it fun for your child.
Note: we offer two ways to learn more
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We will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday April 4th at 9 pm EDST to go over these issues and more and to answer your questions, To register – click on Improving Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension. We will make this valuable to all parents, and we urge you to participate in the conversation!
To join the webinar CLICK HERE
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You can have a conversation with us by either
Calling us at 561-361-7495 or
Scheduling a conversation — you can find available times at www.3dlearner.com/booknow
Parenting a bright right brain kinesthetic learner can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you hear:
- You need to be more realistic, your child is not …
- This private school is too rigorous for your child, maybe you should consider your options
- Parents can save $20,000, $30,000 or even $60,000 a year by improving their child’s performance and transferring them from a private school, often an academy, into a very good public school
- You cannot expect your child to make more than a year’s gain within a year
- You don’t need to do anything extra for your child, someone needs to be average
Despite being a lot smarter than present results would indicate, bright right brain kinesthetic learners often struggle for years. This is despite parents who often go above and beyond to help their child succeed.
If you are a parent with a child who is a lot smarter than present results would indicate, we recommend adopting the motto, “Success is the Only Option”. This is also the title of the first chapter in our book, “The 3D Learner, Transform Stress to Outrageous Success for Your Child”. Click here to download a no cost digital copy of “The 3D Learner” or click here to purchase The 3D Learner on Amazon. The book goes through a 7 step process to go from Stress to Outrageous Success.
Below, we discuss how some of our parents responded and what our Big WHY was.
All our successes started with a parent calling us to discuss the possibilities. For immediate help, either:
– Call us at 561-361-7495 or
– Click here to schedule a no cost Have a Big Why Conversation
Our Big Why for our Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learners and Others
When we were told our daughter was not college material, we rejected the statement. When Mark turned to our daughter and asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, she responded, “The teacher I never had”. The school then recommended putting our daughter on a vocational track for high school, saying she could be a teacher’s aide. I asked if that would impact her getting accommodations for the SAT and was told, “She will not need accommodations for the SAT, because she will not take them”.
That is when I 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 later got her Master’s in Education from the University of Florida. She is now in her 19th year of teaching, and she has become the Teacher She Never Had.
Our BIG WHY for helping others, is about helping the many bright right brain kinesthetic learners to be far more successful than almost anyone thought they could be. We believe eventually, these kids will use their creativity, imagination and problem-solving skills to change the world.
In our blog posts, YouTube videos and other articles, our goal is to help parents to be Informed, Empowered and Proactive to help their child to be as successful as possible.
This Private School May Not Be Right for Your Child
Private schools are saying this more now than at any point in our history. Below are two cases, where parents rejected the advice and got the help their child needed.
Diane was told by her son’s school to look elsewhere. Her son’s reading comprehension was two years below grade level, and they knew the work was going to get harder.
We started the conversation by asking about his strengths, with questions like:
- Does your child remember places visited, even from years ago?
- Does your child learn best when he sees and experiences information?
- Does your child struggle to pay attention to that which is boring, and can he hyperfocus on that which fascinates him?
After a few minutes mom commented, “How is it you know my son better than people who have known him for years after just a few minutes. We explained that this is who we help – Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learners with significant upside potential.
With our help, her son improved his reading comprehension 3 grade levels in a year and made more progress than any student his teacher had had in 27 years of teaching.
Another mom was told that her son would not succeed at a prestigious private school despite having a high IQ.
After looking at the recommendation for two dyslexia treatments, the mom asked if there was a program that taught to her son’s strengths. 3D Learner was recommended.
With our help, her son got into the school, became the valedictorian and later went to Harvard. This is not a typical result, but it only happened because mom had a Big Why and asked for a program that taught to her son’s strengths.
Many programs do not yield the desired result for a bright right brain kinesthetic learner because they do not:
- Work with the parents to identify their WHY, set BOLD Goals and know how to make them happen
- Assess to see if their child is a bright right brain kinesthetic learner, nor do they necessarily assess for executive function, visual processing, dyslexia and related challenges
- Teach to the child’s strengths with an experiential learning methodology that has helped thousands of students
- Identify and address the relevant executive function challenges
- Identify and address the visual processing problems that are often present
- Address dyslexia, where it is present
- Ignite a love for learning
- Help the parents be the coach and advocate their child needs
An Alternative to Spending $20,000 to $60,000 a Year
At one of our parent webinars, a mom that was attending realized early on in the presentation that her son was a bright right brain kinesthetic learner. We really got her attention when we shared it was possible to avoid the $25000 annual expense she was incurring, to invest in the right program and to build a college fund of over $300,000 for her son. Mom now had her WHY and invested in our effort.
The next year she transferred to a public school and the following year he was accepted into the gifted program.
Note, when you improve working memory, processing speed, attention, visual processing and academic skills, a student’s IQ can also improve.
It is also quite common for a Bright Right Brain Kinesthetic Learner to get into trouble when the work is boring and not challenging. Conversely, they often thrive in more challenging classes when they have the skills to succeed.
Overcoming The Low Expectations in Public School
We are strong public school advocates, but too often the schools have low expectations.
We have had a number of cases where a school tells a parent their child cannot make more than a year’s progress in a year’s time. We know that our students have made two, three and occasionally four year’s gains in that timeframe.
In another case, a mom asked the principal what she could do to help her daughter who was at the 48th percentile in reading comprehension. He said there was no need to do anything, someone had to be average.
Mom called us. She was delighted to see the shift from a “What’s wrong” perspective to “what is right. “ When you understand that your child is a bright right brain kinesthetic learner with incredible upside potential, it changes everything.
Mom had her Big WHY and within 6 months her daughter improved from the 48th to the 95th percentile in reading comprehension and she blossomed as a young adult.
We have had cases where for reading comprehension :
- Students with well below average IQs made two year’s gains within 6 months.
- Elementary school students made 3 year gains
- Middle and high school students who made 3 and even 4 year gains within 6 months
This was all because their parents had a Big WHY, and they invested the time and money to make it happen.
Understanding The Past, Developing Your WHY and Finding the Right Partner
Like many of our parents, we made a number of investments that did not yield the desired result.
We recommend you consider:
- What is your Big WHY
- What are your child’s strengths and challenges
- If your child is a bright right brain kinesthetic learner, consider a strength-based approach and strength based parenting
- Who can make the difference for your child in partnership with you?
Note, we strive to help both parents of bright right brain kinesthetic learners and others to put their child on the Pathway from Stress to Outrageous Success. Do not hesitate to engage in a conversation.
All our successes started with a parent calling us to discuss the possibilities. For immediate help, either:
– Call us at 561-361-7495 or
– Click here to schedule a no cost Have a Big Why Conversation
In our next blog post, we will focus on assessing to see if your child:
– Is a bright right brain kinesthetic learner
– What executive function or visual processing issues are holding your child back
– Does your child have dyslexia
– What is your child’s present level of reading comprehension
– How can you help your child be all they can be
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