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Maybe you have heard your child say these things, or maybe you've heard someone else talking this way. Sometimes our kids have a hard time remembering how to form the letters. They don't 'see them in their mind' the way the "rest" of us do. Each time they are asked to write, they begin to feel tension building inside them. They hope the bell will ring so they can avoid writing one more time. They may begin to think of themselves as stupid or dumb.<br />
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It isn't true! You can be the smartest one in your class but if your memory is overloaded already, it will be difficult to sort through all the files.<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Students with working memory difficulties can hold fewer pieces of discrete information in their mind at any given moment. They hear what you said, or see what is presented, but as more information overwhelms their memory system they lose previous information needed to successfully complete the task." </span><br />
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There are plenty of things we can do to help ourselves remember how to form those letters, though! Take a shallow container and pour some table salt in it, just enough to cover the surface. Laminate some upper and lowercase letters. Take a letter and stand it up against the side of the salt container and, using a small brush, write the letter in the salt, sand, or panko, even!<br />
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Use crayons to trace letters on flowchart paper, on an easel. The friction from the crayon helps cement the image in the brain, making retrieval a little bit easier.<br />
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Take a peg board and some pegs or golf tees and form letters on the board, copying them from a printout or using the laminated letters from the salt container activity.<br />
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Create a game board with lowercase letter words. Make them sight words if you like, using a Dolch word list or Fry's list. Use Scrabble pieces to spell the words, comparing the upper and lowercase letters, for identification. Once you have spelled a word, read it out loud.<br />
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learned Helplessness or passivity with schoolwork:</strong> Students who experience consistent failure and difficulty despite continued effort, often give up and put limited effort into school work, as a protective mechanism for their self-esteem.</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Misbehaviour:</strong> Children with learning difficulties often engage in disruptive behaviours, and can be aggressive at times to avoid the task at hand</li>
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<span lang="EN-US">A box has four sides, a bottom and a top,
or lid. Think of each side of this box as one of the 5 w's: who, what, where,
when, why (and one h, how)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Who</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: the population you are working with or wanting to work with. Do
you have a passion for one group over another? Do you seem to gravitate to one
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(fetal alcohol, dyslexia, autism, auditory processing disorder, adhd,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: this is the therapy you offer? ~ Interactive metronome, Integrated
Listening Systems, Irlen screening, Search and Teach, Lexercise/Orton-Gillingham, NILD, ET2,
tutoring are mine. Think about your programming, what you can offer from your toolbox
and what you would like to continue to research/investigate. Continued
education is critical to stay updated and current<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do you have your office out
of your home? Are you in a clinic? Do you work online? (Webex, Skype, FaceTime) and what
are the reasons for your location or setting. Is it working or does it need to
change?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">When</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you offer your services
before and after school only, in the evenings, on weekends or do you suggest
parents pull their children out of school to have therapy during the day? Is it
twice a week for 90 minutes, 60 minutes, 45 minutes, half an hour? Is it part
in your therapy office and part at home? What is the best prescription?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Why</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this is based on
assessments, data-driven, measurable goals for accountablilty for you as a
therapist (is the client achieving the set goals or are they wasting their
money?) what are the perhaps “less obvious” reasons for the therapy and how can
those needs be met within a best practice framework?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">How</span></b><span lang="EN-US">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this is the lid of the box
and absolutely must be not only opened, to see inside all the coursework,
training, skills and experiences you as a therapist have to offer BUT, most
importantly, all of the stuff needs to be taken OUT of the framework of the box
(the training) and laid out on the table. This is where the real work and fun
begins … personality comes in to play as each therapist brings their unique
personality to blend with the client and real learning takes place in a
symbiotic way. </span>This is what “out of the box” thinking needs to look like. Don’t
throw out the box, don’t downplay the importance of structure and framework, as
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Summer is a great season for mixing work with fun. June is just around the corner, leaving a few weeks for tutoring, a few for adventures, and September returns before you know it. What I love about summer tutoring is that it leaves time for lots of breaks, eliminating that feeling of learning overload.<br />
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FOR many education advocates, the arts are a panacea: They supposedly increase test scores, generate social responsibility and turn around failing schools. Most of the supporting evidence, though, does little more than establish correlations between exposure to the arts and certain outcomes. Research that demonstrates a causal relationship has been virtually nonexistent.</div>
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A few years ago, however, we had a rare opportunity to explore such relationships when the <a href="http://crystalbridges.org/" style="color: #666699;">Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art</a>opened in Bentonville, Ark. Through a large-scale, random-assignment study of school tours to the museum, we were able to determine that strong causal relationships do in fact exist between arts education and a range of desirable outcomes.</div>
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Students who, by lottery, were selected to visit the museum on a field trip demonstrated stronger critical thinking skills, displayed higher levels of social tolerance, exhibited greater historical empathy and developed a taste for art museums and cultural institutions.</div>
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Crystal Bridges, which opened in November 2011, was founded by Alice Walton, the daughter of Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart. It is impressive, with 50,000 square feet of gallery space and an endowment of more than $800 million.</div>
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Thanks to a generous private gift, the museum has a program that allows school groups to visit at no cost to students or schools.</div>
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Before the opening, we were contacted by the museum’s education department. They recognized that the opening of a major museum in an area that had never had one before was an unusual event that ought to be studied. But they also had a problem. Because the school tours were being offered free, in an area where most children had very little prior exposure to cultural institutions, demand for visits far exceeded available slots. In the first year alone, the museum received applications from 525 school groups requesting tours for more than 38,000 students.</div>
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As social scientists, we knew exactly how to solve this problem. We partnered with the museum and conducted a lottery to fill the available slots. By randomly assigning school tours, we were able to allocate spots fairly. Doing so also created a natural experiment to study the <a href="http://educationnext.org/the-educational-value-of-field-trips/" style="color: #666699;">effects of museum visits</a> on students, the results of which we published in the journals Education Next and<a href="http://edr.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/12/0013189X13512675.abstract" style="color: #666699;"> Educational Researcher</a>.</div>
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Over the course of the following year, nearly 11,000 students and almost 500 teachers participated in our study, roughly half of whom had been selected by lottery to visit the museum. Applicant groups who won the lottery constituted our treatment group, while those who did not win an immediate tour served as our control group.</div>
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Several weeks after the students in the treatment group visited the museum, we administered surveys to all of the students. The surveys included multiple items that assessed knowledge about art, as well as measures of tolerance, historical empathy and sustained interest in visiting art museums and other cultural institutions. We also asked them to write an essay in response to a work of art that was unfamiliar to them.</div>
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These essays were then coded using a critical-thinking-skills assessment program developed by researchers working with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.</div>
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Further, we directly measured whether students are more likely to return to Crystal Bridges as a result of going on a school tour. Students who participated in the study were given a coupon that gave them and their families free entry to a special exhibit at the museum. The coupons were coded so that we could determine the group to which students belonged. Students in the treatment group were 18 percent more likely to attend the exhibit than students in the control group.</div>
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Moreover, most of the benefits we observed are significantly larger for minority students, low-income students and students from rural schools — typically two to three times larger than for white, middle-class, suburban students — owing perhaps to the fact that the tour was the first time they had visited an art museum.</div>
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Further research is needed to determine what exactly about the museum-going experience determines the strength of the outcomes. How important is the structure of the tour? The size of the group? The type of art presented?</div>
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Clearly, however, we can conclude that visiting an art museum exposes students to a diversity of ideas that challenge them with different perspectives on the human condition. Expanding access to art, whether through programs in schools or through visits to area museums and galleries, should be a central part of any school’s curriculum.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>How do you find business?</strong><br />It is always a slower process when moving to a new city and, in my case, province, but generally, through word of mouth, business doesn't take long to pick up and it is always fantastic to be able to chose the days and times that work best for me!</span></div>
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<strong style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you do any advertising?</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have created and posted flyers, utilized facebook, Linkedin, my blog, and other websites to advertize, but in my personal experience, word of mouth is still the best form of advertisement. People want to hear the experiences of other people. Living in a city with lots of schools is always good, and people really do share their success stories. The hardest part, in my opinion, is a lack of funding for this type of therapy, along with the fact that most insurance companies will not cover any portion of the cost. It is often tough for parents to afford and I try to be as sensitive to that as possible while not sacrificing any of the program.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>What do you see as the biggest obstacles to getting great results, and how do you overcome them?</strong><br />Everyone is busy these days and many would like a quick "miracle" fix. That doesn't happen meeting for therapy only once a week. The goal is for two sessions per week, with small amounts of "take home" to be done each day (5 - 10 minutes a day maximum). Skype has been a new offering from me so there is always the option to combine home therapy with office visits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, though, coming to the therapist weekly helps both parents and, most importantly, the client motivated and progressing ... what I call "best practice". The clients who put forth the most effort are, inevitably, the ones who see the most change and are the happiest with all their hard work.</span></div>
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<strong style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you convince prospective clients to enroll in therapy?</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the most part, I think we all intuitively understand that there are requirements involved in any activity: genuine commitment, effort and repetition are necessary to change the brain. Without commitment on the part of the client, not only do I look inept as a practitioner, but the program looks to be ineffective. I have let clients go, in the past, after mutually agreeing, if the commitment isn't there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Any tips for other therapists?</strong><br />Persevere! I am not positive if Theodore Roosevelt truly said this, but I agree that nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty ... I have never in my life envied a human being who led and easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.</span></div>
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