learning disabilities: fix the cause, don’t slow the child down
The standard answer to a learning disability is to slow instruction down and teach your child to cope. NACD does something different: a home program that identifies the neurological inefficiencies causing the difficulty and works on them directly, every day, with you.
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The slow-down trap
Children diagnosed with learning disabilities are misunderstood by most professionals, and often by parents as well. The strategy typically used to deal with a learning disability is to slow instruction down in order to give the child a better chance to grasp the information.
So, if a child has a learning disability, is it a diagnosis that means academic failure? It is not. Since 1979, NACD has worked with over 50,000 families, and children labeled learning disabled have been proving that label wrong for as long as we have been doing this work.
We don’t teach coping. We fix what’s wrong.
NACD does not teach the child how to cope with his or her existing learning disability. As a matter of fact, the NACD staff does not use the label “Learning Disabled.” NACD uses an assessment tool that allows us to ascertain the cause or causes of the learning difficulty. Having identified the cause, we are then able to move forward to fix what is wrong.
Unlike other programs that help the child cope with the disability, NACD seeks to identify and rectify the underlying causes. These causes are neurological inefficiencies, and a program designed to correct them, assembled from a toolbox of more than 1,000 techniques, is essentially a program to resolve the disability at its source.
Auditory processing
Inefficiencies in how your child takes in and processes what they hear affect following instruction, language, and learning in every subject. Daily targeted input develops the channel itself.
Visual processing
Inefficiencies in how your child processes what they see affect reading, writing, and working from the board or the page. The program works on the underlying visual processing, not just the schoolwork.
Retaining information
Short-term memory, working memory, and sequential processing are the foundation under learning and retention. These are among the most developable pieces of the entire program.
Problem solving
Conceptual thinking and problem solving grow as processing grows. A child whose underlying inefficiencies are addressed doesn’t just keep up. They begin to think and learn across the board.
An adult or child diagnosed with a learning disability does not have to learn to live with it. NACD will work with you and your child to develop an efficient, if not superior, level of function. What do we expect? We expect success.
It works for adults, too
Our approach is unique and it works. It works for adults with learning disabilities as well as children. The brain remains changeable across the lifespan, and the same assessment-first, home-based approach applies at any age, adapted to adult life, work, and goals.
Is your child’s struggle specifically with reading? The set of symptoms often labeled dyslexia has its own causes and its own page. Read about how NACD approaches dyslexia.
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