Specialist Tutors Lead The way To Drug Free Management For Kids With Learning Difficulties
Living with a child who has a learning difficulty can sometimes be likened to a living nightmare. Approximately 900,000 families in Australia are facing these challenges every day. Research indicates that 1 in 5 children experience some form of learning difficulty and 57,419 children take some form of medication to help them focus.
Dealing with the day-to-day struggles is only one part of this journey. Choosing the best way to "treat" your child and being faced with the prospect of placing your child on a drug such as Ritalin is one of the most difficult choices a parent needs to make.
One family that decided there had to be a better way was the Vogel family. when their son was diagnosed with dyslexia, their home life was a mess. Faced with daily tantrums, moody sullen aggressive behaviour and little support from their son’s school they didn’t know what to do or who to turn to for help or advice. One thing they did know was that they had no desire to place their son on drugs to "manage" his behaviour.
Diana (whom many parents now call The Kid Whisperer because of her uncanny ability to quickly identify a child’s individual learning profile and clearly describe challenges many parents are having with their child both at school and in the home environment,) decided that there had to be a simple, natural way to end the nightmare. "I was determined not to turn to drugs in the same class a heroin and cocaine." Says Diana. "I had the same concerns that were communicated by Judge Paul Conlon when he spoke out against the overuse of drugs such as Ritalin. "I have huge concerns. The tide of cases is amazing." Said Conlon.
Out of the struggle to create a drug free alternative for her children Diana created a unique approach to helping her son manage his moods and his dyslexia. from there Reach your Potential Tutoring Centres was born. Thanks to advances in research into how we learn, many people no longer need to struggle to learn.
"The brain can be trained like any other muscle." says Vogel. "It’s a classic case of use it or lose it. unfortunately, many kids have ‘lost it’ or never developed ‘it’ at all."
using a unique mixture of fun games and exercises, students at Reach your Potential Tutoring Centres build, strengthen and develop their "mental muscles".
"we focus on activities that are designed to engage certain areas of the brain. usually, those areas associated with focusing, fine motor control and emotional reasoning. We’ve found that by using each child’s unique learning profile, we can tailor our program to suit each learner.
It’s amazing to watch kids who believe they "can’t do it" achieve success time and again. Their self-confidence soars and with it, their ability to focus and read and write."
With up to 1 in 5 students experiencing some form of learning difficulty (ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, sensory processing disorder etc) schools are hard pressed to provide everything these students need.
"That’s where we come in – as wonderful as schools can be, teachers are aware they can’t do everything. we love working as part of the educational team to provide the one-on-one support not normally available to every student who needs it. Teachers are our biggest supporters. we make their jobs easier and help them understand their students’ needs in a very symbiotic relationship."
Following the success of the company’s initial centres in Central Queensland (Biloela, Moura and Theodore), 7 new centres are on the Gold Coast. Families in the Upper Coomera, Coomera, Labrador, Reedy Creek, Nerang, Broadbeach and Banora Point regions now have access to this unique approach to education. The company has now also expanded into Toowoomba.
For more information about our unique approach to education call Diana Vogel on 0417 792 879.
For further information contact: Diana Vogel The Kid Whisperer 0417 792 879
Press release published by Seeking Media. http://www.seekingmedia.com.au/
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