All children have the capacity and desire to excel in life. Academic success is attainable both for children with learning disabilities, such as ADHD, Autism/Asperger's, and for those who just need some individualized assistance throughout the learning process.

General Education Students

Remember when you were in high school and grade school? Remember those difficult math assignments, reading assignments and exams? Has homework time with your child become a struggle? Sometimes a child may need a little assistance individualized specifically for them. As a parent it can be quite frustrating exhausting hours of time to finish a homework assignment. When parents and children work together emotions can sometimes overtake both, creating a difficult learning environment. Through working with a professional, your child can learn to enjoy accomplishing academic tasks, learn new skills in order to study, organize and be succesfull in life. Once students are given the tools and insights they need to support their unique way of learning, they thrive. Enthusiasm replaces frustration. Confidence replaces low self-esteem. A happy student replaces a miserable one. Grades and exam scores improve. Parents become less frustrated. The student becomes less frustrated and discouraged and now have the tools necessary for success.

Special Needs Students

Parents are often worried when their child has learning problems in school. There are many reasons for school failure, but a common one is a specific learning disability. Children with learning disabilities usually have a normal range of intelligence. They try very hard to follow instructions, concentrate, and "be good" at home and in school. Yet, despite this effort, he or she is not mastering school tasks and falls behind. Learning disabilities affect at least 1 in 10 schoolchildren.

It is believed that learning disabilities are caused by a difficulty with the nervous system that affects receiving, processing, or communicating information. They may also run in families. Some children with learning disabilities are also hyperactive; unable to sit still, easily distracted, and have a short attention span.

Child and adolescent psychiatrists point out that learning disabilities are treatable. If not detected and treated early, however, they can have a tragic "snowballing" effect. For instance, a child who does not learn addition in elementary school cannot understand algebra in high school. The child, trying very hard to learn, becomes more and more frustrated, and develops emotional problems such as low self-esteem in the face of repeated failure. Some learning disabled children misbehave in school because they would rather be seen as "bad" than "stupid". Learn more