Why Listening Skills are the Key to Learning
Learning growth is slower without accurate listening "From vocabulary development and decoding to the complexities of language syntax, it's all a challenge if listening is muddy or inaccurate."...
How to Test for APD & Better Understand Your Child
The Multi-Disciplinary Path to an APD Diagnosis A proper diagnosis of APD requires a multidisciplinary approach, involving input from an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, and other relevant...
Supporting Children with APD by Making Lifestyle Changes
Quality of Life and Progress-Enhancing Ideas Improving the quality of life for a child with APD involves implementing lifestyle changes and accommodations at home and school, including reducing...
Tutoring – Investment or Burdensome Expense?
Are you spending too much on tutoring to keep up? The impulse when your child struggles with homework or needs help with a test is to get a tutor. Tutoring represents direct action and so it fits....
Self Regulation and Learning – in a Digital Age
Learning Independence Requires Self Regulation If the end goal of education is self-directed learning and metacognition, self-regulation is an essential, although somewhat overlooked, marker on that...
Making Structured Literacy Work For Your Child
Setting Your Child Up For Success With Structured Literacy Is your child part of a Structured Literacy program at school, but you are not seeing results? Or is your child a candidate for the...
What is Developmental Dyslexia
Not All Dyslexia is Developmental Dyslexia Developmental dyslexia and dyslexia are often used interchangeably. in some contexts "developmental dyslexia" is used to specifically refer to a type of...
Understanding the Indiana ESA Program
Support for Home-Based Learning - Including Gemm Learning For decades, only children from more affluent families could afford to support their children with tutoring and learning interventions...