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As we approach the fall, a season of getting new things underway, there can be lots of stress.  Today I want you to concentrate on putting a very important natural “leveling” device in place to help you to renew and balance yourself!  It’s called laughter.  A household that deals with learning disabilities can never have enough laugher.

As a very wise friend told me, “  Are you laughing a lot?  Watch some comedies to release lots of dopamine.  Hug lots of people to release lots of oxytocin.  Sing hymns/spiritual love songs because God hears the praises of  His own!  Where God is, there His healing virtue flows! 

Yes, even we need to be healed of stressful situations, challenges and unexpected work that will land on our doorstep from time to time.  Norman Cousin’s  statement, “Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”   So, let the fresh air in and lighten your load.  Give yourself an opportunity to laugh each day.  Laughter is good medicine for every inch of you and others will sincerely appreciate you being an “added blessing” to their lives.

After having been exposed to the Neuro-Educational Programs for more than 25 years and witnessed some pretty amazing successes; I’ve not only been surprised in my own son’s life, but in the lives of children with labels ranging from ADD, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, PDD, Sensory Disorder, Dysgraphia, Cerebral Palsy, Mentally Challenged, Special Needs and others.

So how can one program help so many different aspects of difficulty?  It has to do with the breadth of the program and the fact all is geared to addressing root causal areas of the brain.  We know from years of experience if the developmental steps were not completed during the early years of development, then the neurological inefficiencies are the unifying functional behavior that shows up with different accompanying symptoms.  It is through symptoms that learning issues are diagnosed.  The Neuro-Educational System addresses a broad spectrum of core functions. Those functional areas that present as lagging through the course of the evaluation are exposed and appropriate brain-based techniques are indicated. These activities bring wholeness to under-developed areas whether it be due to disease, trauma, or sensory deprivation as an infant or toddler.  If vital developmental steps were not taken, such as receiving stimuli from being on the infant’s tummy, then the natural way of mapping the brain and growing connections between the mind and body are circumvented from occurring.  Without gaining the ability to crawl and developing good cross patterning abilities leaves many children in a less than desireable state where learning is concerned.  The good news is that  children with learning disabilities can be effectively dealt with and the symptoms of the learning disability can be eliminated and re-mediated so the child can become successful and the shadow of low performance and struggle simply is no longer a component of their life.

Follow this link.  Take the time to learn, first hand, how other parents and their children have succeeded in overcoming what seemed like a life sentence of always struggling academically.  Discover the real key to educational success ~ neuro-efficiency!

My son Will was officially diagnosed with dysgraphia in the 7^th grade by a public school diagnostician.  He had a post-high school vocabulary and reading level but wrote like a 3^rd or 4^th grader.  He was told that he would never be able to take notes on lectures because it would take too long for his brain to process what he heard and then put it down on paper.  Once he wrote something down, it was predicted he would miss one or two of the next points taught! 

Will appreciated the label because it was the first time in his life that he believed the learning problems were not his fault.  Suddenly, he could believe he was smart and that there was help available to get him through school with coping and compensating strategies.  On the other hand, I felt like the diagnosis was a terrible thing.  Would he always struggle in school?  Would he not be able to go to college?  Would he be unable to get a good job to support a family?

Shortly after we learned of Will’s disability I was helping to lead a prayer group in the home of Jan Bedell.  When I asked her if she had a job, she explained that she worked with children who struggled with learning.  I asked her if she was familiar with the term “dysgraphia.”  She shrugged her shoulders as she walked casually into the kitchen saying, “Oh, that’s just because of a disorganized brain.”  My jaw dropped to the floor.  The “death sentence” my son received seemed to be an easy thing for this lady to understand and to fix! 

Within a few months Will had an evaluation and two of his sisters and I went on program to improve our brains.  It was a busy four years that followed of doing what seemed like crazy activities.  I say it like this because in all my training for a Texas teaching certificate and in all my 15 years of teaching in public, private and home schools I had never heard of neurodevelopment.  Nobody had ever taught me about the brain and how to make it work better so learning could be easier.

Today, Will is a successful upper classman at McMurry University in Abilene and his two sisters are making straight As with an extraordinary online high school called College Preparatory Academy.  My brain is working better, too, because now my closets and cabinets are organized, I can remember a 7 digit phone number and I only rarely lose my keys or sunglasses.

You ask, “Could my child have dysgraphia?”  At Little Giant Steps we say “no” to labels and “yes” to hope.  We don’t focus on the learning disabilities or assume they can’t be remedied.  Instead, through an evaluation process and an individualized neurodevelopmental program we help our clients build new nerve pathways so their brains work better.  [It's called neuro-efficiency.]  Carefully chosen physical activities target strategic parts of the brain to improve organization.  Clients play auditory and processing games to increase their short term memory that results in global maturity for children.  For adults these games help keep the mind sharp.  As brain function improves, learning gets easier.

One theme that I hear over and over from parents is, “Oh, if I’d only been able to do something sooner; my child (or I) would not have suffered all the anxiety, distress and feeling of failure because of dyslexia/learning disability.”

As a parent who kept looking for the educational professionals to help me discover the solution for his reading, writing, and various other symptoms disrupting his learning; I can tell you it is your choice right here, right now to stop that vicious cycle. The situation of seeing yourself or your child become overwhelmed daily because the inability to make things come out right does not have to continue.  There is a remedy that addresses the most fundamental and basic entities at the root cause via brain-based techniques that are applied through theLGS Neuro-Educational Program.  These problems can be fixed!  Fixed for the rest of your or your child’s life!  I’ve witnessed individuals overcoming dyslexiaand other learning issues for decades!  Each evaluation provides individual insight as to the “gaps” that require intervention.  It’s true that it’s an “inside job,” because this program works with the root causes of these issues in the brain.  It’s a matter of stimulating the brain to change in configuration, connections and communication between the brain and body.  Once  neuro-efficiency is established, processing speeds brought up to grade level, these kids or even you can perform as God intended.  The history of being dyslexic becomes a mere blip on the radar screen of ones life for a short time.  Once these efficiency-factors are in place, our program is no longer needed. The normal course of development continues with the result of being more whole, confident and successful!

As one mother to another, please don’t procrastinate!  Take care of this!  Investigate by thoroughly going over our free articles.  Read the testimonialsof other parents like myself.  Study our research data.  See how we can accommodate financial parameters.  LGS has had laser focus in making as many programs as possible to meet needs of people with learning disabilities.  We’ve kept our programs within reach of parents whether they be educating their children in public, private or home schools.  Please, don’t allow the struggle to continue. Be pro-active and discover the true destiny when neuro-efficiency is present.

My son is doing fantastic! He is just like a different child. Everyone comments about it; the speech department at the public school, our family, friends, etc. He is playing t-ball and is an excellent player. I wondered if he would be too shy w/ all of the attention and stimulation, but he is not having trouble at all.

The program was a lot of work and at times I thought I must be crazy for doing all of those things, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world now. I am grateful to Jan and Little Giant Steps for teaching me how to help my child reach his potential.  M. S. in Magnolia, TX

That was the cry of a young mother who has now experienced five years of caring and loving this wonderful gift from God, their adopted child, Kit.  He is extremely bright and a very loving child when he’s not being a one-man destruction machine.  What is even more confounding for this mother is that there is no history on her adopted son’s parents, whether he was exposed to drugs or suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome or what!  The only thing she does know is that approximately 4-5 hours a day things are just not normal for Kit. If he were evaluated she states she’s sure his diagnosis would be somewhere between ADD, ADHD to Bi-Polar.  It’s like riding a rollercoaster that you know will come off the track, but you’re never sure when, so you have no way to anticipate how to handle the situation.  He is a natural manipulator (he’s extremely bright) and when that doesn’t work,  then he becomes a run-a-way, out of control dynamo.  So, what’s a mother with a child like this to do?

For Little Giant Steps, this kind of dilemma is not surprising as we have seen and heard much the same from parents with adopted children whose history’s are unknown, but problematic symptoms in their behavior indicates something in their early development wasn’t quite normal.  And, from our perspective, it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference if the child is healthy and growing.  From our perspective, we are concerned about establishing, or re-establishing developmental  steps through the use of brain stimulating activities that will cause the plasticity of the brain to change, create new neuro-pathways, repair connections that may have been damaged, or in the case of a child who was neglected, to develop those areas left without proper stimulation and therefore undeveloped.  As a scientist said following his research on a study of imaging the brains of children who were suffering from cognitive developmental delay, “As we began to see the changes occurring in the brains of these deprived children and areas in the imaging lighting up an array of colors demonstrating neural activity and growth occurring, it was as though all of these undeveloped brain bits of circuity were just waiting there for the proper activity to stimulate it and start it functioning.”

Essentially, we are the “activators” of the brain-body connections.  Our programs have been used successfully since the 1950s, and we have been providing services since 1992.  Thousands of children with problems just like Kit have become whole, the way God intended and have gone on to reach their full potential.  Our program only lasts as long as the symptoms are unresolved.  Typically, programs range from 8 to 24 months.  After that, children graduate and go on to become their parent’s greatest joy, rather than their worse nightmare. 

Having a child with symptoms like Kit displays is not a life sentence…. if you decide to get the root cause fixed through a neuro-educational developmental program.  It’s so much fun to hear from parents as they tell us about their success stories, because this all-natural developmental program works!

  A year ago, our 12 year old son was using 1 or 2 word sentences and motions to communicate.    He also had behavior issues and lack of attentiveness that kept him from being part of a regular classroom.  After using our Little Giant Steps Neuro-Educational program since June, we are seeing amazing progress with our  son.  He is talking in details and wants to read the ingredient lists of his favorite foods and record them in my recipe file.  We can hardly keep up with his flood of words now.

  He is a lot more interested in people and has eye contact now.  We are more likely to get an answer when we ask him about his day at school.  He wants to play with his 9 year old  brother and neighborhood kids now.   We see a look of understanding in his eyes that we’ve never seen before.   This sounds just too good to be true, but it’s not.
 
When we finish the dominance trial in a few weeks, we are planning on taking him out of school to home school him using Little Giant Steps program as a base for learning.  Hopefully after a period of time he will have progressed so much that he can return to school and attend regular classes. 

We have found Jan Bedell’s program helpful where others were not.  For that we are so grateful.   Thanks, C.C.  Lubbock, TX

After just 2 ½ months on the Little Giant Steps program, one mother wrote:

 “Our developmentally delayed 10-year-old son’s social skills have blossomed! He’s doing things that would not have happened 3 months ago. For example…he’s singing in the children’s Christmas musical at church and he’s enjoying the practices. He has volunteered to be a sound technician for the children’s ministry at our church. He’ll run the sound board for children’s church. He’s very excited about that also. He “meets” people better. We used to struggle to get him to go to church and Sunday school because it overwhelmed him. Now, he walks to children’s church on his own. These are wonderful things for us to see. We are seeing academic changes come slowly, in addition to these social changes. We are so very thankful for Little Giant Steps!”   C. W. in Oklahoma,

Children with learning issues can benefit in many ways from the LGS Neuro-Educational Programs.  Not only does the lower levels of the brain become organized, and they gain the ability to process information, but their furstration levels are reduced and is reflected in behaviors that are more positive.  Here’s a comment from a mother of one of LGS’ clients:

“Sarah is doing incredibly well.  We noticed a change in her emotional state immediately. I could hardly believe it.  I asked her ten year old brother, Michael, if he noticed a change in her and he said, “Oh yes, she still teases me, but now when she does it, she isn’t being mean!!   Thank you so much for your help.”   Blessings,  CP

From a parent after a short time of his son being on the Little Giant Steps (LGS) Neuro-Educational Program:

Our son, CK, just started Little Giant Steps.  We have been working his program as diligently as possible.  I wanted to tell you about a “little giant step” I experienced last night.  I have never seen him cry because he was genuinely sad.  I have only seed him cry when he was angry, had been disciplined, or did not get his way.  Last night I saw him cry a different “cry”.  It was not the out of control hysterical cry I am used to, but a quiet, sad cry because he was upset about something.

His little brother let our dog  have one of CK’s stuffed animals (a monkey).  The dog bit off the hands and ears. Instead of first getting furious and mad at his brother (normal reaction), CK came to me crying about what had happened to his monkey.  He was upset and very sad for his poor monkey (it was not a human, but at least he showed compassion for something) and CK wanted to be held and consoled by me.  Besides when he has been  ill, it is the first time I can ever remember him acting or feeling “tender”.   I felt like crying myself.  God Bless LGS and the work you all are doing.  What a motivation I experienced to keep moving onward!   ~   CK’s Dad