The Learning Success System is a simple method parents can use to help children overcome learning difficulties. It simplifies the process and enables a parent to work at home with their child



The Learning Success System:

Convenient for both children and parents
Minimizes high costs of learning centers
Uses Cutting edge neuroscience research



The brain is very complex. The brain and body are highly integrated. Complex systems such as emotions, incremental learning skills, mind body connections and more come into play in the learning process. Because of this we believe that no single field of expertise has the answer to overcoming a learning difficulty. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach. That's what we have created.

You often hear people say "No two dyslexics are the same". Or "No two dyscalculics are the same". This should make it obvious that there is no single answer. Instead it takes the right combination of answers. We think this is obvious. But that's just us. Because the right combination of answers comes from a variety of sources our approach has been to assemble a team from all of those sources.



The Main Strategy

Our main strategy is divided into three parts. Some limited success can be achieved by using only one part. Which is what most programs do. We believe, that to have maximum success, a system must incorporate all three parts.



Strategy 1 - Calm the emotions.

A child cannot learn under stress. If a learning difficulty has been going on for any length of time at all, the child is stressed. Stress reveals itself in many ways. Tantrums, defiance, depression, avoidance, and manipulation are all ways in which a child protects themselves from this stress.

There is an actual neurological reason that learning is impossible under stress. There is a part of the brain that simply takes over. It shuts down the cognitive centers. It is called the amygdala. We have many approaches to calming the amygdala.

Without taking the emotions into consideration learning is at the least very difficult, and often impossible. This is one reason many systems have failed.



Strategy 2 - Incorporate the Body

Learning happens from the outside in. Our sensory systems integrate together. Most learning will require more than one. When we try to isolate learning to the mind only, we are eliminating other sensory systems and blocking the natural learning process. Think about old playground games such as hopscotch, Pat-a-cake, jump rope, story telling. How many sensory systems did these games use? We must use them all to learn.

We are not stuck with the brain we were born with. Our brain can actually develop new and better learning abilities. There is only one thing that triggers the brain to grow new neurons and new neural connections. The body. To develop our brain we must use our body. This is done through learning to coordinate the body in new ways. Of special importance are cross lateral exercises. Exercises which cross the midline of the body. The Learning Success System is loaded with exercises which are designed to coordinate the body in new ways and therefor prime the brain for learning.



Strategy 3- Build up the Fundamental Skills of Learning

Learning ability is not one thing. Intelligence is not one thing. They are a combination of smaller skills. Skills we don't really think about. Skills that are so ingrained, we hardly know we use them.

To understand these skills think about the process of reading. To read we need to be able to:

Track words on the page
Recognize characters and sight words
"Hear" the words in our head
Visualize the meaning

Those are all individual skills needed even before start on actual reading skills. Those are the required skills to even start to learn to read. And that's the short list. There's more.

If you jump the gun and start trying to teach reading skills, you cause stress (see strategy 1). You are fighting an uphill battle you cannot win. It is essential to build up the fundamental skills of learning.



The Solution is Actually Simple

Building up these skills, relieving stress, and incorporating the body are not difficult. They can be done with simple exercises. The exercises that are in the learning success system.

In the past, the problem has been that no one has used all three strategies. Most systems concentrate on the expertise of the person who came up with the system. That doesn't work. It takes expertise from a variety of disciplines. That's what we have done. Gathered the right experts needed.