by Bonnie Landau | Apr 15, 2018 | Accommodations, Auditory Processing, Blog, Classroom Help, Learning Disability
Help for learning disabilities are often called accommodations. Accommodations are ways of modifying environment to assist with overcoming the challenges of a learning disability. For example, if a person has difficulty hearing when competing noise is present,...
by Bonnie Landau | Mar 27, 2018 | Accommodations, Blog, Learning Disability, Printable
Writing essays is a skill that students start as early as first grade. First they learn to write a sentence, then to put those sentences into a paragraph, then to combine paragraphs into an essay. For students with dysgraphia, the actually writing with a pencil is...
by Bonnie Landau | Mar 12, 2018 | Attention Problems, Biomedical Healing, Blog, Learning Disability
Recovery from ADHD is a heated topic. I know many will disagree with me, but I believe most of the time, a child CAN improve or recover from ADHD symptoms. The reason so many people disagree with this has to do with what most people think Attention Deficit...
by Bonnie Landau | Feb 17, 2018 | Blog, Learning Disability, Neuroplasticity, Reading, Visual Processing
Mention a visual processing disorder (VPD) and the first thing a parent will say is, “But the eye doctor said he has 20/20 vision!” A person can have perfect focus but still have a visual processing disorder. This is because the problem with a visual processing...
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 19, 2018 | Assessments, Blog, Learning Disability, Therapy
Primary reflex integration has quickly become one of the standard therapies to help children with ADHD, sensory processing, learning disabilities, autism and behavioral problems. It is an exercise-based therapy that helps recreate early baby movements that then help...
by Bonnie Landau | Jan 17, 2018 | Assessments, Blog, Learning Disability, Learning Styles, Reading
When a child starts to learn to read, you never expect it to be a challenge. Yet 1 in 5 children will have difficulty mastering this essential skill. Most will be diagnosed with dyslexia, and it will be assumed that their brain functions in a way that reading will...
by Bonnie Landau | Nov 30, 2017 | Auditory Processing, Blog, Learning Disability
Audiologists have not determined exactly what causes auditory processing disorder (APD), although there has been some consensus that there are two primary types: Acquired APD: The child was born with normal auditory function, but at some point the hearing system was...
by Bonnie Landau | May 1, 2017 | Blog, Learning Disability, Parenting
For parents who have children with moderate learning issues, they are very aware that their children are stuck in the middle. Their kids are not severely disabled or autistic, nor are they typical kids with typical challenges. These kids are stuck between...
