This mother shared with the staff at Little Giant Steps what she’s learned in the process of having her son evaluated and the hope and promise for him in the future in academics:

“We wanted to take a moment to thank you for evaluating Isaiah on Friday. It has given us hope that Isaiah can be the best reader in the Burr family one day! He certainly is the most compassionate, sensitive and cuddly kid we have! Although it has been very hard to see him struggle with academics as he sees his siblings seemingly breeze through, these sufferings have really created an amazing heart of empathy in Isaiah for those in life who have to try a little harder than others. As always, suffering is an invitation to go deeper with Christ and know him in a way we would never have known him before. Isaiah has accepted the invitation with a noble grace.

We look forward to incorporating the Little Giant Steps Neuro-Educational Program into our daily life. As a mother there is always the measure of guilt associated with hindsight, but also the awareness that God has gone before us in many ways already. It’s been our family’s educational culture to read a lot! To ourselves and aloud. We use Sonlight as our curriculum and so it’s been hard to not see Isaiah sprawl across the couch engrossed in a book like his brother and sister. Not knowing that reading aloud was something Isaiah needed, it’s always been captivating to me how much he remembers and narrates and almost word for word. It has been as if a glass door has kept Isaiah enshrined from exploring the world through books on his own; however, now we feel that we have the keys to help set this little man of God free!”

This mother describes her son’s reading problem with great clarity.  It is true, if they have missed the developmental steps that allows the brain and body to process information efficiently, then it is as if they hampered by a glass door.  The good news is that he is improving now that he’s on the LGS Neuro-Educational Program and is finding a destiny he thought was only reserved for his siblings.