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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