What Can Parents Do?
Where to start
Read Help Your Child to Learn and pinpoint the immature areas in your child's development by answering the list of questions in each of the early chapters.
Take your child for any obviously needed assessment suggested in the book - but only one at a time.
Explain to your child what you have found so that the blame for failure can be taken off the child and on to the obstacles to his learning.
Use only positive words of encouragement and acknowledgement of their gifts.
Encourage gifted areas so that they can have the recognition for some special achievement.
Go through the Move to Learn Movement Program with your child.
This is demonstrated on the Move to Learn
It is a simple, flexible movement program, based on the natural movements of babies and toddlers that addresses the underlying functional deficits that children with various learning difficulties or learning disabilities have shown.
Comprising of 10 simple movement sequences that cover all the essentials that every child needs to establish an effective foundation for academic learning, and in the right order, it stimulates the body senses including the vestibular and fires up the nervous system.
You can do these simple movement sequences in your own home. You don't need much space and no equipment other than a