EVERYONE HAS A BRAIN! LEARN HOW TO MAKE MEMORY IMPROVE More and more families are seeking help for their children to function better emotionally, behaviorally as well as academically. Many are having long term memory problems where they seem to know something one day and not the next. One reason for this is the link between hand, eye and ear dominance. This week, the Brain Coach will also include some activities you can do to help with visua

If you have a gifted child, you may be surprised at the difficulty that you encounter with keeping them challenged. Gain first-hand experience from Dr. Jan Bedell as she also is challenged daily with living in a multi-generational household with several gifted grandchildren. Dr. Jan has the perspective of a teacher, as she taught for many years, and also her from her doctorate in child development, and as a certified Neurodevelopmentalist with over twenty years experience in

YOU CAN MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE How many of you remember the days when you were a student, and the struggles either you or you friends had in trying to spell using phonics? All of sudden the English language and sounds of words became complex and there were rules that most of us found took some time to really understand, grasp, and gain mastery. It seemed like it was a road with a lot of pot holes one could fall into, and easily make a mistake. Not always did sounding out a

Have you had some days where it felt like there wasn't one positive thing happening in your home, with your children, or spouse? If not, consider yourself lucky, because I know from my own experience and that of my friends, there are days like that! Here at Little Giant Steps our clients have had many such trials and tribulations. What our training, experience, and science shows is that much of such attitudes are due to symptoms from ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, and other diagnosed

Stop Twirling That String with Jan Bedell, PhD Visual challenges can be varied and sometimes hard to detect, but often mom or dad know something isn’t quite right. The challenge is to figure out what is causing the problem. The doctor might say, “The child’s vision is fine.” The question from a neurodevelopmentalist standpoint is, would the doctor be talking about 20/20 acuity (able to see up close and far away) or vision (the way the visual information is interrupted by th