gifted is a starting point. we build from there.
Parents of children with excellent learning skills are often as perplexed as parents of children with learning difficulties, and school programs are often insufficient and start too late. NACD has worked with some of the top students in the country, and the goal is always the same: keep them challenged, keep them growing, in every area.
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A different kind of perplexing
Parents of children showing excellent learning skills are often as perplexed as to how to best deal with this as are parents of children with learning difficulties. Programs offered by schools are often insufficient and start too late to take full advantage of what the children can do. NACD has worked with children who are some of the top students in the country.
NACD shares the goal of the parents, which is to maximize the child’s potential. And with NACD by their side, parents can move confidently toward the future knowing that their child is learning to both utilize and improve his or her abilities.
Three things school gifted programs don’t do
Assess and develop the whole child
NACD first assesses your child’s capabilities in all areas of function, and programs are written to improve function in all areas, so your child is not competent in one area only.
Maximize how your child learns
NACD provides instructional strategies and educational resource recommendations to make the most of your child’s ability to learn, working with you and your child’s educators.
Map the learning future
Instead of going it alone, you get help locating opportunities that let your child move further and faster in areas of interest, including advice on early college admission and extra courses.
Even a fast brain can get faster
Maximizing your child’s potential includes programs to further their ability to process auditory and visual information, improve short-term memory, visualize and conceptualize, and use their working memory, drawing on a toolbox of more than 1,000 techniques.
Auditory processing
Hold and work with more of what they hear.
Visual processing
Take in and organize more of what they see.
Short-term & working memory
The engine under complex thinking.
Visualization & conceptualization
See it, model it, reason about it.
Tonal processing
The listening foundation under music and language.
Visual memory
Retain what they read and observe.
Fine motor coordination
Output that keeps up with a fast mind.
Gross motor coordination
A whole child includes a capable body.
Many gifted NACD kids learn at home
Many of NACD’s accelerated students thrive with NACD home education, where the pace of learning is set by the child instead of the classroom. Others stay in school while running their NACD program at home, and NACD works with parents and educators to maximize learning strategies and materials either way.
Not sure whether your child qualifies as “gifted”? It doesn’t matter as much as you’d think. Every child’s processing can be developed, and the typical children page explains how the same approach raises any child’s ceiling.
Testimonials From NACD Clients
Testimonial From the Parent of Three NACD Graduates
Accelerated: “Jennifer”
Accelerated/Gifted: NACD Kids: “Andrew & Daniel”
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