A recent Newsweek article stated that "42% of parents
believe there's 'great need' for children to receive
private outside tutoring.
Why is this?
A variety of reasons really. Many parents are
looking for "the basics" as a countermeasure
to "educational innovations" in the last 30
years. Some are looking to build up their child's self-esteem
with individual attention. Others are looking for their
children to get ahead through "pre-literacy"
and enhancement programs.
But what if your child
has a learning disability and tutoring didn't work?
" But we've done tutoring.
Why didn't it work?"
Even with the finest teachers and great effort, most
students with moderate to severe learning disabilities
have never had their problems "remedied" (corrected).
Students with learning disabilities have differences
in the way that they process, or think about, information.
Many tutoring centers do an excellent job of teaching
basic skills. However, if there is something different
or breaking down in the students' information processing,
they may not be able to hang onto or use the skills
they are taught. Some therapies for learning disabled
students focus specifically on developing thinking processes.
While this is important and may help the student to
be more comfortable, teaching
processing alone does not generally teach a student
to read.
If tutoring, special education, individual instruction,
and extraordinary help from parents did not work before;
it is not because your child can't learn. The key to
unlocking a learning disability lies in a combination
of developing the underlying/supporting thinking processes,
as well as "laying down" the basic academic
skills. Working on either area by itself may make some
temporary gains, but will not long-term correct the
learning difficulties.
What
is the difference between tutoring and educational therapy?
Tutoring generally focuses on one or more of
the following areas:·
a> Basic academic skills, b> Specific subject areas (Algebra, History,
English, etc.), c> Study
skills, d> Test preparation, e> Enrichment.
Tutoring is very
beneficial for students, who are behind, need a little
extra support to keep up, have specific needs in particular
subjects, and who want to get ahead. Educational therapy
focuses on developing thinking processes as well as
basic skills. At the LEARNING
CENTRE of NIBS,
processing development may include:· Memory training·
Attention awareness and control· Phonemic awareness.
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