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Q. Since our child was about 18 months we’ve known there was something different about him.  He’s very intelligent, has an extremely well developed language ability, but it’s like he gets either focused on something to the extreme or he’s off in la-la- land day dreaming. He seems to get some things in school, but other things he just cannot remember. How could your neuro-educational program help him?

Ans:  Our program works with the neuroplasticity feature of the brain. Our whole objective is to assist in creating, completing or repairing the neuro-connections that allow the brain and body to communicate efficiently and effectively. What you are describing are symptoms which are not a new phenomenon to us.  Many of our clients are gifted, but have quirks that seem to prevent them from learning, organizing their thoughts or even engaging socially.  Some come to us with labels such as ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, PDD and some come because their parents recognized symptoms that seem to hamper their children from having normal experiences in the world in which they live. What our program does is to eliminate those symptoms at the root cause in the brain.  We provide individualized and appropriate activities that will cause the brain to create a change through brain-based stimuli. If a child missed essential developmental steps during the course of their early years, what we do will help to organize the lower levels of the brain, close those learning “gaps” and allow for better input and output of information.  Once a child becomes neurologically efficient, they can truly develop their true God-given potential.  We just help to create or complete the circuitry in the brain that was not developed as needed to be successful academically, physically and sometimes socially.  Please read the articles on our website for more information about our methodology, philosophy and successes.

ANSWER:  Many Children Have Low Auditory Progressing Abilities Which Decreases The Ability To  Receive, Comprehend, Store, and Retrieve Information.

Why are so many children struggling with low auditory processing?
            Many years ago, when our educational system was developed, we were primarily an auditory society; we ate together as families 2-3 times a day and TALKED.  We read as a family in the evenings or listened to radio broadcasts for hours.  We developed our auditory processing ability by practicing. 
            Today, our society is primarily visual with T. V., computers, movies, electronic games, etc.  These all consuming visual activities permeate our lives and leave little time for the truly important practice of listening and developing our auditory processing abilities.  Even though our society is primarily visual, we are still using the educational delivery system that was developed for a primarily auditory society. 
 
What can be done?
            Since the brain is dynamic and ever changing, much can be done to remediate the processing ability of any person, at any age.  By providing specific stimulation to the brain to increase ones auditory processing ability, global benefits will result for the child or anyone who applies these activities for a four month period. 
            You can request a FREE auditory test kit  or by emailing: orderdept@littlegiantsteps.com  Put “Free Auditory Test Kit” in the subject line. This kit will allow you to test any individual ages four to adult.  Also, reading the Auditory Processing Booklet will add to you knowledge and skill.  This information will give you a baseline to work from and a better understanding of your child’s struggles or inefficiencies.  To increase auditory processing, digit span exercises can be done with a four minute time investment and the reward of increased abilities globally.  Instructions for digit spans are also included in the free kit.
              In addition to digit spans daily, I encourage you to read to your children at least one hour a day as an additional way of developing processing skills.  When they are not listening to you read, they could be listening to books or stories on tape/CD (without the book).  This is a great way to add value to the time spent playing with legos, coloring or other fine motor activities.  Listening to audio stories and books (not music) increases vocabulary, helps reinforce sentence structure, provides opportunity for narration, models good writing structure in addition to developing auditory sequential processing. 
            Audio stories are also a wonderful way to productively occupy pre-school children while you are schooling older siblings.  You can see amazing results when you get your child up to grade level in his/her auditory processing abilities.

Q: “My child has a good heart, but he is disruptive and out of control so much we really hate to take him anywhere.  How would your program help him?” 

Answer:  You remind me of a child (we’ll call him Sam) who came to our office about six years ago.  Thank goodness his mother loved him, because he was a chore to tolerate. He, too, had his moments where he was the most caring and endearing little guy. Unfortunately, those were the exceptions, rather than the rule for him.  To start, we evaluated him.  We discovered he was extremely hyper-sensitive to all sorts of stimuli.  He also had an intolerance to some food additives, which would set him off on a downward spiral of destructive behavior that was big enough to cause severe marital discord between his parents.  There were other issues such as dominance and extreme problems with his tactile system and sound.  All these problems were addressed with a specific program designed by a neuro-educational specialist.  Within 5 weeks his mother contacted us and said he had slept all night and there seemed to be a leveling of his behavior.  He wasn’t screaming at his little sister because of her loud voice which, for the rest of the family, seemed to be within normal limits. He wasn’t as angry on a daily basis and the number of emotional meltdowns during the course of the day were less frequent.  Today, this little boy is now in junior high.  He has an academic standing above average. He interacts well with his peers, adults and people in authority.  Today, you’d never guess he was once an out of control tyrant.  That’s what our program does. It helps to get these children’s brains organized, their super-sensitivities normalized and it  increases their ability to process information, comprehend, and leave behind the chaotic behavior that resulted from gaps in his development.

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It’s true, learning disabilities are not a life sentence, as we’ve been reminded yet again by Augusta’s Mom, Carol Bolton. She wrote to tell us about the change in Augusta’s life, because of the neuro-education program from Little Giant Steps:   

My new favorite quote from Augusta on her birthday:  “Mommy, last year on my birthday, when I opened a book, it was just all a bunch of letters.  This year on my birthday, all of the letters have become words. Thanks Little Giant Steps!!”    Yea for Augusta! 

Q. Since our child was about 18 months we’ve known there was something different about him.  He’s very intelligent, has an extremely well developed language ability, but it’s like he gets either focused on something to the extreme or he’s off in la-la- land day dreaming. He seems to get some things in school, but other things he just can’t remember from one day to the next. How could your kind of program help him?

Ans:  Our program works with the neuroplasticity feature of the brain. Our whole objective is to assist in creating, completing or repairing the neuro-connections that allow the brain and body to communicate efficiently and effectively. What you are describing are symptoms which are not a new phenomenon to us.  Many of our clients are gifted, but have quirks that seem to prevent them from learning, organizing their thoughts or even engaging socially.  Some come to us with labels such as ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism, Aspergers, PDD and some come because their parents recognized symptoms that seem to hamper their children from having normal experiences in the world in which they live. What the LGS neuro-educational program does is to eliminate those symptoms at the root cause in the brain.  We provide individualized and appropriate activities that will cause the brain to create a change through our stimuli. If a child missed essential developmental steps during the course of their early years, what we do will help to organize the lower levels of the brain, close those learning “gaps” and allow for better input and output of information.  Once a child becomes neurologically efficient, they can truly develop their true God-given potential.  We just help to create or complete the circuitry in the brain that was not developed as needed to be successful academically, physically and sometimes socially.  Please read the articles on our website for more information about our methodology, philosophy and successes.