Educational Therapy
60Lisa Harp - Learning Link Technologies
Educational Therapy Saves Kids
As an educator I have lived my life trying to help children learn. But it wasn’t until I was met with my own child’s learning problems that I found help for him at all costs, and believe me, it did cost a lot. I spent a small fortune on him in an effort to get help and figure out what did and didn’t work. I also spent a lot of time – researching, taking classes, and using my own child as a guinea pig.
However, it paid off in the long run. I just watched him graduate from high school, standing tall and proud. There were no special education endorsements or certificates on his diploma. He passed his high school exit exam and every class along the way to get to this point, just like any other kid. Nobody made any special considerations for him. All of this because of neuro-sensory educational therapy
He is normal, smart, popular, and best of all, a successful college student. Would this have happened if we would have chosen special education for him or if we would have left his fate in the hands of the school system that was failing him without taking matters into our own hands?
I think not.
I work with children every day whose parents have chosen a different course than most. They have decided to take their child’s education into their own hands and find the help they so richly deserve. But there are so many others who are not getting the help they need. These are our brilliant, gifted children who are being misdiagnosed and mistreated. These are the kids who need to be given a healing for the very brilliant minds they have.
The message I have for parents of these kids is this: You do need to take your child’s education into your own hands. You can’t just trust that the schools are doing their job. Some do, some don’t. Just as there are good doctors and bad doctors, there are good teachers and bad teachers. Schools are large institutions, and you may get lip service that your child is important, but never forget that your child brings money to that school, and that is important to the school as well.
Listen to your gut. If your child isn’t getting help, then find it. It’s out there. With that I give you hope. There is a way to heal the wounds your child has suffered. But pounding more academics into this child isn’t the answer. We must look at the brain and the senses to heal the very wounds that keeps them from learning. We need to look at how human beings learn and at the plasticity of the brain. We need to understand that miracles happen every day, but they don’t happen by holding up a flash card to a fourth grader, telling him to try harder, and then taking his recess away because he doesn’t know his multiplication facts.
The miracles happen with acceptance – acceptance that yes, these kids are different, perhaps even gifted. Acceptance that With that, I offer a healing. For all of the children who are wounded, maybe even your child.
Educational Therapist
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If you really are a Learning Therapist you need to learn referring to children as kids in your posts sounds extremely unprofessional. I find it hard to believe you are an actual learning Therapist.
primpo Level 2 Commenter 13 months ago
Exactly what I needed to see. I have a six year old daughter and there are somethings definitely that needs to be addressed with her. She is in first grade but they have her in special classes and mixed in with kindergarten.
she also still wets and spoils herself almost on a daily basis. I try to be encouraging and not playcate her. everyone says I spoil her but I am trying to figure out if she really is having a hard time or is it because she wants to be difficult. My step daughter was urinating her pants until she was nine, I think she is similar. I am not sure how to address these issues. I am taking her to a neurologist to rule anything out. Some days she is perfect in school and stays dry all day, and she will ask to go to toilet, others she right out urinates and then tries to hide it. she came home the other day saying she hates school, people are mean and she don't want to go back. I recently started studying ninjitsu and it is a small starter school, as a matter of fact we are in a community center in town until he gets more students but he is great with the kids in the kid class. I had her in it for about two weeks, but after months of begging me that she wants to do karate, she wasnt paying attention, she was disrupting, she is more at the level of a 4 year old in some aspects then a 6 year old. she will be 7 in june. I know its going to take alot of patience on my part. I'm glad you posted this , I went tot he site and when I get the money will order the dvd.
maybe I could learn some stuff from you..