Learning Frustration

Avoid Homework Problems
Treat The Underlying Issues

There are countless reasons for homework problems and learning frustration. Gemm provides learning programs for the following difficulties:

-- resists doing homework

-- takes a long time to complete homework and/or other tasks

-- drifts off in class, is easily distracted

-- eroding confidence or does not enjoy school or academics

-- cannot follow multi-step directions

Helping Homework Frustration

A number of learning skills need to be working properly for homework to go off without a hitch:

Your child needs to be able to follow the teacher to learn the material during class and to accurately understand the assignment. If your child cannot process language at natural language speed, or if it is exhausting to do so, large parts of the daily lessons are being lost, either because your child is not keeping up or he or she is tuning out from the extra effort keeping up requires.
Auditory processing disorder symptoms

Your child needs to be able to read the homework assignments well enough to comprehend what is being asked. Being able to read the words is not enough.

Programs to help reading comprehension

Homework requires integration skills most evident in organization and focus. Weaknesses here lead to frustration, lost time in poor planning, way too much time taken over homework due to re-reading and re-working problems. We use BrainWare Safari in these cases, a sensory integration software that specifically addresses focus and organization.
BrainWare Safari

Helping Eroding Confidence

While an inability to perform at the level of peers in school contributes to eroding confidence, a bigger factor is the underlying concern that school and everything related to it is overwhelming and beyond them.

Most often this is because everything is coming at a child too fast. Or if it is reading, it is so difficult that it seems unlikely that he or she will ever be able to read -- it may as well be in Chinese! No wonder school is no fun.

By addressing underlying cognitive issues, Gemm is able to slow the world down -- by speeding up internal processing.

How Fast ForWord helps processing skills

By improving underlying cognitive issues, learning to read suddenly seems possible again. It takes a while for this to translate into measurable reading gains. But we often hear of gains in confidence within a few weeks of starting our program.