Why do I love seeing students come to my clinic?
I help children to get back their honor.
I have a very basic belief. Everyone can learn. The only question is “how?”.
The ‘text book methodology’ of the modern school system is not necessarily designed to teach every student in the way he or she learns best. Instead, any child exhibiting hyperactivity is said to have attention deficit or other learning disability thereby setting the child up for failure. By doing a ‘profile’ on each child, I am able to map out which side of the brain is dominant. This allows me to address each student’s difficulties in a unique way by connecting them to their eyes, ears, hands and feet.
I believe the term "learning disability" is fundamentally disempowering. Children do not need to be labeled, they need to be understood.
Failure is not final.
When children are so filled with failures even just looking at a text puts their whole body into such stress that there is no way they can open themselves to learning. The concept of learning disability is relative within each individual child. I teach each student how to activate their minds while calming their bodies so they can create space for learning.
Totally dynamic, varied and customized to each child, the most rewarding part of my work usually happens on the very first day. It’s the moment when a previously struggling student leaves my clinic room, and turns back to say,
“ I enjoyed that. Can I come back next week?”
This warms my heart and it is why I do what I do.
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Reading Motivation- A slight Difference in Wording
It was his first visit. Waiting at the door to greet Tom and his father, I noticed the reluctance of his walk climbing the stairs. We sat down in the clinic room. Dad sat with us, but my focus was on Tom. After taking basic information on what he enjoys at school and...
Do we have to explain to pupils the way they want to hear?
listen to the pupil themselves- they have the answers and the language that their brain can understand.
Listen carefully to the words and the body language
After years of working with learning challenged pupils, I still open the clinic door, with excitement and wonder what
knowledge I will acquire from my pupils during our sessions
‘that’s my magic’
I just knew that one of the key words that I had learnt today was “my magic” and am looking forward and excited to actually use his words to help solve the problem of his reading
If we can read the words, are we a reader?
After all these years working with children in the clinic with their learning challenges, I am happy to say that I can still end a session with tears of excitement and happiness. I can still attach myself to that little girl deep down inside of myself that so needed...
To read assessments or not?
I receive calls like this everyday. A mother contacts me. She’s been referred by the teacher, the school advisor, the principal or a friend….I am told that I am the last resort. The family has done everything right. They have put the child through expensive...