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.
My blog is dedicated to sharing these amazing children's stories with you...
breathing for the brain
Omri, now at the end of second grade, and his parents had traveled more than an hour to get to the clinic. I had been forwarded the assessment that had been done before entering school. It was a long document. Basically spelling out that he would have problems...
A ray of sunshine
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a stormy night
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Photographer
There was absolutely no question of whom to invite to take photographs for the blog. The talented photographer is Noam Rivkinfenton and I thank you Noam for all the years that we spent together and taught each other so much. Noam is/was one of those so called...
Every Student is My Teacher
"You can do better." This sentence rings in my brain over and over again. Something that I was told endless times and all my school life, I could never understand what the teachers meant. I tried and tried and tried but nothing ever changed. I was told by my parents...