by Geoff Nixon | Mar 25, 2020 | Parent Tips
Working, Parenting, and Teaching – in the Age of COVID-19 If you find yourself now homeschooling your child (not by choice), you are not alone. About a billion children across the globe are looking to their parents for educational guidance due to the COVID-19... 
by Geoff Nixon | Mar 24, 2020 | Learning Issues, Parent Tips
Why Your Child Shuts Down and How to Respond For many children, shutdowns are a last resort, a way out of an overwhelming situation. Children want to please, and they understand that shutting down does not please parents or teachers. And yet for many, it’s a... 
by Geoff Nixon | Jan 4, 2020 | Learning Issues, Parent Tips
When the school’s timeline & goals differ from yours Raising a child is challenging enough, parenting a struggling learner – including auditory processing disorder, dyslexia, and ADHD – multiplies that challenge tenfold. This post focuses on what... 
by Michelle Reynard | Aug 22, 2019 | Parent Tips
Easing Back Into a School Routine The start of a new school year can be a stressful time for students and parents alike. This is especially true for students with learning difficulties. Whether the summer was fun filled and free of academics or included activities to... 
by Geoff Nixon | Jun 18, 2019 | Parent Tips, Reading
Learn from those who have gone before you!Parents are not experts in finding reading help for their kids or being able to read a learning diagnosis. It’s not what they imagined parenting would be about. But actually, figuring out the right path for your child... 
by Geoff Nixon | May 9, 2019 | Education Trends, Parent Tips
The School Role Is Instruction, NOT Learning Interventions The reality is schools take children “as is” and do their very best to get them graduated. And so, it might come as a shock, but schools are not about resolving impediments to learning. And in... 