2- If your child has reading comprehension issues they may be a visual-experiential learner (i.e. excellent memory for places they have been and movies they have seen and learn best when they see and experience information). We call them:

GOLD Students ??Gifted Operating with a Learning Difference

When parents view their child as gifted and learning differently, it opens up a whole new way to explain prior challenges and to help them succeed.

Two excellent books on the subject are Jeffrey Freed?™s ?œRight-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World??and Dr. Linda Silverman?™s ?œUpside Down Brilliance??that describes gifted children who learn differently.

3- If your child skips words or lines when reading, has trouble copying off the board or get headaches when reading, have their eyes checked by a Developmental Optometrist ??go to www.covd.com to find one near you. There are two routes for improvement

a. Vision therapy done at the optometrist?™s office

b. Exercises you can do at home

4- Address the attention issue. Some people prefer medication; our bias is to use systems that address it naturally. We encourage natural solutions to both avoid the side effects and the challenges when the drug wears off ??understand that an hour of physical exercise a day can be an enormous benefit. We also use the Interactive Metronome ®, Brain Gym ® and Centering Exercises to help the student.