The client can expect to leave the program with tools that allow for an increased ability to achieve and maintain focus, control mis-perceptions experienced during reading, increased self confidence and continuing improvement in reading fluency and comprehension.
AGE: 8+
SYMPTOM: Reading Dyslexics
DURATION: Five (5) consecutive days
Purpose:
- To resolve difficulties experienced with reading, writing, spelling, and/or penmanship for children and adults
- Developed for children (approximately age 8 and above), teens, and adults
Foundational Skills Gained:
- How to create and monitor a focused state
- How to self-regulate energy levels to appropriately match the task at hand
- How to improve balance and coordination
- How to resolve confusions caused by alphabetical letters
- To understand one’s own learning style and recognize its gifts
- Increased self-esteem
- Better stress-management and less anxiety
- The ability to focus attention
- Increased self-confidence
Academic Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
- Strengthened left-to-right eye movement for accurate word decoding
- Improved phonemic awareness through various activities
- Ability to independently implement word decoding strategies
- Improved spelling skills
- Ability to utilize one’s creative thought processes for letter and word mastery
- Increased accuracy in reading: decrease of substitutions, insertions, and omissions
- Improved fluency and word decoding abilities
- Improved comprehension
- Improved penmanship
- Skills for transferring thoughts in the mind to words on paper