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Most smart struggling students are right brain, neurodivergent and/or visual spatial learners. That is, they learn best when they see and experience information. They often think in 3 Dimensions.
7 Strengths and Challenges right brain, neurodivergent and/or visual spatial learners often have. They:
- Learn best when they see and experience information and are engaged
- Often skip words and/or lines when reading
- Very often have a combination of working memory, processing speed and/or attention challenges
- May have dyslexia or a learning disability – -half of our students do and half do not
- Are often anxious and frustrated
- Almost always are a lot smarter than present results would indicate
- Are dependent on their parents to make the difference
The right brain, neurodivergent and/or visual spatial learner often needs their parents to find the solution to unleash their potential
Your smart struggling child might have been in public school, being homeschooled or in a private school. We have had a half dozen calls this month from parents this month with four common themes:
- Their child is struggling with a combination of reading fluency, reading comprehension and math word problems
- The school or the homeschool parents are frustrated by the lack of progress — despite having done many things to help their child
- The child is frustrated and anxious
- Parents want a better answer that will make the 2024-25 year far better for their child
The good news is that the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities (FES – UA) and the Personalized Education Program (PEP) can be used to significantly improve your child’s reading fluency, reading comprehension, ability to do math word problems and their confidence.
Whether you are renewing for your child or are new to these programs, here are links to both the Florida Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities and the Personalized Education Program.
3D Learner has been a provider for these programs since they started. These vouchers provide parents with the opportunity to access private schools, tutoring and other services. 3D Learner offers both live training in the Parkland – Boca Raton area and zoom training statewide.
5 Steps to Get It Right For Your Child
- Reject that status quo and commit to your child’s success over the next year
- Identify your child’s strengths, challenges and their present level of performance. You can use our assessment special to do all of this.
- Set BOLD Goals that will change your child’s life
- Get help from professionals who can teach to your child’s strengths, identify and address their challenges and help you to be the coach and advocate your child needs
- Take massive action ASAP
If you have any questions or want to discuss how we might be able to help, call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to have a Conversation on How Vouchers Can Help Your Child Succeed and ask about our assessment special available till July 12th.
Note, the Family Empowerment Scholarship for Unique Abilities (FES- UA) and the Personalized Education Program (PEP) can be used for traditional tutoring and for SAT Training.
3D Learner students have made significant gains with both the Family Empowerment Scholarship and the Personalized Education Program, including:
- A second grader improved her reading comprehension from the kindergarten level to grade level
- Another second grader improved her reading comprehension from the kindergarten level to the third-grade level in 7 months, read 23 chapter books, and her anxiety decreased and her confidence increased
- An 8th grader who improved her reading comprehension from the 4th to the 8th grade level.
The FES – UA and PEP Programs can be leveraged to change your child’s skills, confidence and love for learning.
If you have any questions or want to discuss how we might be able to help, call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to have a Conversation on How Vouchers Can Help Your Child Succeed, especially if your child is a right brain, neurodivergent and/or visual spatial learner
3D Learner helps two groups of students to improve SAT scores:
- The bright right brain, neurodivergent learner who needs to improve their reading comprehension, attention and other issues to improve SAT scores. We define a right brain neurodivergent learner as one who learns best when they see and experience information.
- The motivated student who wants an approach to significantly improve SAT scores to get into a better college and/or to earn a scholarship — like Florida’s Bright Futures Scholarship
The Digital SAT was introduced in March 2024. The new Digital SAT was hard for all students. For right brain neurodivergent learners, the Digital SAT was even harder. While the new digital app worked well, there were several comments that were shared by a number of students we have spoken with:
- The math section of the Digital SAT was very hard, with a number of new and different types of questions.
- The reading section was different – with a number of new questions on punctuation and “dependent” and “independent“ clauses.
- Overall, the SAT scores were close to historical levels, since the test was curved to do that. The good news is that this allowed students who did better on the new format to score even higher.
The bad news is that those who struggled with the new format did much worse.
A positive note is that once a student learns how to solve the problems, they can see a significantly improved SAT score. It’s about learning new skills, looking for the tricks and finding patterns!
We have been helping students improve SAT scores for many years. What we have found is that many students struggle and:
- Lose focus during the test
- Read slowly and have problems with vocabulary and reading comprehension
- Struggle with the SAT because the questions are tricky. It is not straight forward, so being able to understand multiple meaning words is vital
3D Learner has a unique approach, where we can help a student:
- Improve their attention. This helps them to score better and do better in school and athletics
- Increase their vocabulary, reading speed and reading comprehension
- Then work on improving reading and math SAT Scores
- Show the student even more effective ways to solve the problems
- Increase their test scores, often by a significant amount
Advice to All Parents
- If your child complained about the March 2024 or June Digital SAT test — listen and respect their frustration. As with any new test, change is hard.
- If you are using books from before 2024, get new books. The questions are quite different. We use two 2024 Princeton Review Books for the Digital SAT 2024. Here are the books and a link to Amazon for each one:
- Practice with the new questions can be very helpful. We recommend you consider:
- Working with a professional who has had experience with these tests
- Having your child practice more than normal
- Be prepared to have your child take the test more than once
- Set goals with your child. This is especially true for students who want to get into a top flight school or one who wants to earn a scholarship
For example, in Florida, a student needs a 1210 combined SAT to qualify for the Bright Futures Scholarship that might be worth $20,000 over 4 years, and a 1340 combined SAT score to earn a Bright Futures Scholarship that might be worth close to $30,000 over 4 years.
We had a rising senior who needed to get a 3.6 GPA and a 1210 on his SAT to qualify for the Bright Futures Scholarship. This was a challenge given his cumulative GPA was 2.8 and his initial SAT scores were 1010. With our help and the motivation provided by the scholarship, he got a 3.75 GPA and a 1220 on his SAT score. Motivation matters.
Have your child set goals, track their progress and reward their gains.
Advice to Parents to Improve SAT Scores
- Do all of the above and consider working with someone who understands your child’s specific strengths and challenges and can help them succeed. These might include:
- We have a number of students who lose focus during the test, and this happens elsewhere. At 3D Learner, we use the Interactive Metronome ® to improve attention. It also:
- Improves reading fluency by one grade level
- Improves math fluency by two grade levels
- Improves sports and related skills
- Creates new neural pathways that appear to be permanent
- Improving vocabulary, reading speed and reading comprehension
- The wording is different, and it helps to have someone who can explain things in a hands-on visual approach, that will allow your child to understand the concept
- Reading speed is often a challenge for the right brain neurodivergent learner. We have been able to significantly increase a student’s reading speed, while also improving their reading comprehension
We had a student who read at 125 words per minute and could not complete the test. With training, he increased his reading speed to 300 words per minute, while improving his reading comprehension 2 grade levels. His reading SAT score increased by 140 points.
- Reading comprehension is an issue for two different groups:
- When reading comprehension is well below grade level, getting a good SAT score can be very difficult. When one improves reading comprehension by 2 or 3 grade levels, GPAs and SAT scores both improve
- When a student wants to get into a really competitive school, improving reading speed, reading comprehension and vocabulary combined with SAT Prep can result in a significant improvement in their SAT score
- Finding someone who can show them an even easier way to solve the problems and who share it in a way that your child will accept their advice
- Having someone who can explain the new grammar questions and how to address them
- Having the availability to schedule extra sessions to help your child adjust and master the necessary skills. All of this training is done remotely-
- Be flexible and consider having your child take the test more than once, with enough time in between to significantly improve their results
Due to the significant changes in the Digital SAT, we expect those students who get the right help and practice enough, to see even greater benefits than normally. For a right brain neurodivergent learner, the new Digital SAT presents both significant risks and opportunities.
If you would like to discuss your child’s situation
and explore how they can significantly improve SAT scores,
call us at 561-361-7495 or at 919-371-5295 in North Carolina.
Does your smart struggling child have challenges with reading fluency, reading comprehension and/or math word problems? Would you like to help improve and instill a greater love for reading this summer?
Our goal in this blog post and in a webinar we will do next Tuesday June 25th, is to help you to be a more informed, empowered and proactive parent who has greater insights into your child’s strengths, challenges and the emotional component.
Our expertise is with the smart struggling child, many of whom are right brain neurodivergent learners who learn best when they see and experience information.
Having helped two of our four kids with our program and over 2500 students succeed, we know that schools and many interventions are not as integrated, engaging and effective as what your child needs.
We also recognize that if your child fits the characteristics we outline below, they will benefit from a program that teaches to their strengths, identifies and addresses their challenges and reduces their anxiety, while boosting their confidence. We also recognize the importance of providing parents with insights and tools that will make parents even more effective coaches and advocates for their child
Is your child a right brain neurodivergent learner? Research shows that over 60 percent of the students today are, and we estimate that 80 to 90 percent of the smart struggling students learn best when they see and experience information.
Does this sound like your child:
- Does your child remember places visited, even from years ago?
- Does your child learn best when they see and experience information?
- Is your child a lot smarter than present results would indicate?
If this sounds like your child, we highly recommend downloading our “is your child a right brain neurodivergent screening tool” and complete the form with your child. Their answers may surprise you.
If you suspect your child is a right brain neurodivergent learner, we strongly recommend you either click her to register for our Summer Success for Your Smart Struggling Child Webinar, call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to schedule a mutually agreeable time for a Summer Success Conversation
If your child appears to be a right brain learner, there is a good chance they also struggle with some combination of challenges that may include one or more of the following:
- Anxiety and frustration – that often gets worse every year
- Working memory – Your child may have an excellent memory for what they see and experience, but really struggle to remember what they hear and read.
- Processing speed – They may read slowly and take longer to process information.
- Attention – They can often hyper-focus on that which is interesting, but struggle to pay attention to that which is boring or frustrating.
- Visual processing – They may have good peripheral vision, but skip words and/or lines when reading
- Low self-esteem and the feeling they may not be as smart as they are
This infographic shows the intersections of the right brain neurodivergent learner, who often has challenges with visual processing and executive function issues and may have dyslexia or other learning disabilities.
The Right Brain Neurodivergent Learner Benefits from an Informed, Empowered and Proactive Parents Committed to Helping Their Child To Be All They Can Be
As a parent, you may be even more frustrated by challenges with:
- Getting the right help from school
- The slow progress your child is making despite your significant investment of time, money and effort
- How hard your child has to work to just do the basics
- That feeling in your gut that your child is so much smarter than present results would indicate, but you are not sure who to turn to.
This blog has four goals:
- If you have a smart struggling child we want to position you as a Make The Difference Parent. You are not alone. Millions of parents are in a similar position. We want you to understand that if your child is far behind, there is a strong likelihood the gap will widen. Conversely, we want you to be aware there are solutions that can help your child to be far more successful in months. While others might say schools should be doing this, we say we tried that, and they were not successful. As parents and educators, we have been there with two of our four kids. We invested in multiple programs and yet the gap widened. Our turning point was when we were told our daughter was not college material in 8th grade. “I am a right brain learner myself”, says Mira Halpert, a mother and educator with a Master’s in Education from the University of Michigan. “I was committed to finding the right program for my daughter and wound up developing the 3D Learner Program ® that helped our daughter to improve her reading comprehension 4.2 years in 7 months and later earn her Master’s from the University of Florida. Julie has just completed her 20th year of teaching and she is now the teacher she never had. Julie will be an integral part of our Durham – 3D Learner team.
- Help you to focus on your child’s strengths and encouraging you to consider options that will leverage their strengths.
- Recognize the many comorbid conditions that often plague the right brain neurodivergent learner. We want to make sure you get help to identify and address. these challenges.
- Position you to be the Informed, Empowered and Proactive Parent who helps your smart struggling child become far more successful.
If you suspect your child is a right brain neurodivergent learner, we strongly recommend you either click her to register for our Summer Success for Your Smart Struggling Child Webinar, call us at 561-361-7495 or you click here to schedule a mutually agreeable time for a Summer Success Conversation
For 27 years, 3D Learner has offered summer programs to improve student’s reading fluency, reading comprehension and to instill a love for reading. Our expertise is helping the right brain neurodivergent learner to leverage their visualization skills to make significant gains in months.
Kids exclaim “I’m a READER!” – building confidence. One third grader went from the lowest reading group, to being an avid reader and to the highest reading group in her fourth grade class. Her father asked her how that happened. She commented, “3D Learner taught me to visualize what I read, do you know how cool that is”.
3D Learner has helped students to make dramatic gains in 4 to 6 months including:
- A second grader, who went from the Kindergarten level to comprehending at the second-grade level in 4 months and she improved her reading comprehension to the 3rd grade level in 7 months. She also started to read chapter books on her own for the first time — completing 23 books in 7 months. Her attention, dancing and self-esteem were significantly better
- A third grader improved his reading comprehension 3 grade levels in a year and his teacher said he made more significant gains than anyone she had seen in 27 years
- A fifth grader improved her reading comprehension 4 grade levels in 6 months, doubled her reading speed and cut her homework time in half — from 2.5 to 1.25 hours. It now only required 15 minutes from mom vs 2.5 hours previously — saving mom over 10 hours a week
- A ninth grader improved his reading comprehension 4 grade levels in 3 months, increased his reading speed by 80 percent and wound up getting full scholarships to college
If you would like to discuss your specific situation, your child’s present situation and how we can help, you can either call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to schedule a Stress to Outrageous Success Conversation.
3D Learner has extended our summer programs to include:
- The 3D Learner Assessment (™). Prior testing has often helped to identify a reading problem and may have identified your child with dyslexia and often executive function challenges. We focus on 5 key factors
- Our kids often learn best when they see and experience information. They are often right brain neurodivergent learners, but this has rarely been identified. We assess how your child learns best and where they might struggle. If your child is a right brain neurodivergent learner, we explain why this might have historically led to learning challenges, and how we leverage this skill to improve reading comprehension and a love for learning.
- Visual processing issues impact over 70 percent of our students and are often never identified or addressed. If an issue exists, we explain it to you and we share how it can be improved.
- Executive function issues impact more of our students. That is, a combination of attention, working memory, processing speed and/or planning issues. We identify both your child’s executive function strengths and challenges,
- Does your child have dyslexia and what are the specific issues that need to be addressed
- Anxiety has become a major issue. We discuss how this can be addressed.
Our students are often right brain, kinesthetic and neurodivergent learners with a combination of visual and auditory processing and/or executive function challenges and they may have dyslexia and anxiety issues
Our assessment includes:
- The Structure of Intellect Assessment ® that shows how your child learns best, where they struggle and where they excel – a principal commented that the SOI assessment was the best assessment tool they ever used. Her special education professional responded, “The problem is it does not label a child which is required for special education and 3D Learner uses it correctly to tailor a program to meet the student’s needs
- A visual screening tool to identify visual processing issues
- The Mindprint Assessment ® to identify executive function strengths and challenges
- The Core Assessment that is part of the UFLI Dyslexia Program ® developed by the University of Florida. This allows us to screen for dyslexia and target our efforts
- A Woodcock Johnson Reading Comprehension ® Assessment that allows us to assess your child’s present reading comprehension level
- A debrief that allows you to understand your child’s strengths and challenges and their present level of reading comprehension and how we can help your child succeed
Our traditional 30-hour 3D Learner Program ® is an integrated, engaging and effective program that is significantly different than others, because:
- We first and foremost leverage our student’s strengths. This accelerates progress and builds self confidence
- Based on our assessment, we individualize the program to meet the student’s needs
- We address 7 key issues
- Phonics, phonemic awareness and decoding skills
- Building vocabulary – especially for high frequency words that do not generate a picture
- Teaching students to improve their reading comprehension with a strength-based approach. We also strive to instill a love for reading and a love for learning
- Addressing the visual processing issues that are present in over 70 percent of our students
- Addressing attention, working memory and processing speed issues, where needed
- Lowering anxiety and improving confidence and self-esteem
A new comprehensive 60-hour program that is designed to help the student who has significant upside potential and would benefit from an effort that works more intensively on improving the relevant challenges (e.g. attention, working memory, processing speed and visual processing), and is designed to significantly improve reading fluency, reading comprehension and instill a love for learning
A Group Summer Learning Program that can improve reading fluency, reading comprehension, and math skills while instilling a love for learning, for students needing to improve their skills, but not needing the 1-on-1 program. This is for all students seeking enrichment this summer.
Summer Group Learning Program
Over a 6-week period, this program is designed to improve student’s reading fluency, reading comprehension and math skills. This program will meet twice a week for 6 weeks for an hour.
Small group for:
Rising first graders
2nd-3rd grade
4-5th grade
- Groups are forming now to start June 24th
- Live groups available in the Durham, NC area
- Active Zoom sessions will be available for kids nationwide.
Please contact us for more information at 561-361-7495 or click here to schedule a Stress to Outrageous Success Conversation.
Third grade retention and other grade retention notices often come out in May and June. In other cases, the parents are just made aware that their child has low test scores. In our experience, reading comprehension is often the key issue.
Accepting third grade retention, other grade retention or low test scores is not the best option. We strongly recommend seizing the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade by improving your child’s reading comprehension.
3D Learner helps students beat third grade retention, other grade retention and low test scores with strength-based training to improve reading comprehension.
Improving Reading Comprehension — The Best Way to Beat Third Grade Retention, Other Grade Retention and Low Test Scores
While test anxiety can be a factor, low reading comprehension levels has been the key problem in virtually every case where third grade retention, grade retention and/or low test scores are present.
To Get It Right, we recommend the following:
- Reject grade retention or low test scores. Commit to significantly improving your child’s reading comprehension
- Identify several key factors:
- What is your child’s present level of reading comprehension? It is very helpful to both identify what their reading comprehension level is and for both parents to be on the same page.
- Is your child a bright right brain neurodivergent learner, who learns best when he or she sees and experiences information? Click here for our no cost “Is my child a bright right brain neurodivergent learner screening tool?” For more detail, go to our blog post on Is my child a right brain neurodivergent learner.
- Determine if there are other complicating factors that might include dyslexia, executive function, auditory or visual processing, anxiety, and other challenges.
- Seek help to both identify your child’s present level of reading comprehension, whether they are a right brain neurodivergent learner and what other issues are holding your child back.
One of our goals is to help every parent whose child may be facing third grade retention, grade retention, or low test scores. We also want to help parents to both assess for reading comprehension level and to identify the best possible way to help your child to improve his or her reading comprehension and test scores.
To have a no cost conversation, call us at 561-361-7495 or click here to schedule a time for a “How to Beat Third Grade Retention, Grade Retention or Low-Test Score by Improving Reading Comprehension Conversation”
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