My 4 and a half year-old daughter refuses to color, write, read, and play independently.  She heads straight for the TV, computer, or anything electronic she can get her hands on.  She’s very bright.  I’ve had to take all the computer games away, sell her iTouch, and disconnect the TV.  I also have a 14 years-old son with ADHD. When he gets home from school, they play off each other.  That’s when the yelling starts.  My daughter doesn’t listen, doesn’t want to follow directions, I have to lock her in her room Read the rest of this entry »

“When writing, I can’t seem to say what I’d like to…
…and when I go to my math class, when the TA [teaching assistant] is there, she explains all to me, but when she isn’t there, I don’t understand the teacher. Then I just start drawing and get told off.  I learn well through colors, so what I tried to do is instead of writing with normal black ink, I used coloring pens.  It really works.  But I get really stressed in my class when the girls [my classmates] shout and argue.” Read the rest of this entry »

I sincerely hope that the following entry will give some helpful pointers to those you know with a similar problem. Read the rest of this entry »

• If someone spells poorly.  It’s easy to hide spelling mistakes in messy handwriting.
• If someone has letters moving in his/her head when s/he looks at the page.  Movement makes handwriting indecipherable.
• If someone has internal pictures fade away quickly.  The fast fading of an internal picture will not enable the brain to notice its details and will cause a blur / mess in the mind – and in the handwriting.
• If someone believes that there’s something motorically wrong with their hand / arm.  This belief will provide a good excuse for poor handwriting as well as a barrier to the person’s motivation to attempt improving it.
• if someone is ungrounded.

Contact me for more help with poor handwriting.

Problems with speech were an issue I was once approached with.   And since it inspired me to think of many more people out there wrecking their brains over a similar dilemma, here I share what I advised this woman. Read the rest of this entry »

The following 3 exercises will sharpen your visual and observational skills, and improve your memory.  The key is to do them regularly until you feel proficient and automatic at visualisation. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s another valuable experience a parent in Toronto approached me with and that will be beneficial to many a frustrated and helpless parent out there. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re reading this entry perhaps because you’re in a similar situation to that described below and searching for solutions, and if you do apply what’s written here, it may give you just the solution you need, yet one you’d never have thought of. Read the rest of this entry »

People who come to me often present the issue of being able to read longer words well, but – paradoxically – being stuck on short words.  Why is that? Read the rest of this entry »

Many parents are rightly concerned that if their children have learning difficulties, they might find entry into schools of good quality and reputation difficult and that the “reputation” of learning difficulties would follow the children for life.   So, what’s the wider perspective? Read the rest of this entry »

A frustrated parent contacted me with a fabulous query which I’ll share here.  If you persist reading to the end, you may find a lot of answers to the difficulties of that special someone you know…   So, here’s what she said… Read the rest of this entry »

Don’t underestimate them if you are a parent and want your children to do well at school and in life!  Reading to your children will encourage them to get the imagination going = visualize the content of what you’re reading to them.  This will help develop their visual memory which will be useful at school for spelling, reading comprehension, learning lists, and any kind of dealing with numbers and mental arithmetic. Read the rest of this entry »

The answer is simple: because they find the content of lecture notes [and other study materials such as textbooks etc.] hard to take in.  This is demotivating because students see no progress in learning and feel the struggle and the rest is… Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever wondered where ADD, ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other learning difficulties stem from and how you could help yourself or someone who had any of them? Read the rest of this entry »