Something to ponder...
"You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
– Rabindranath Tagore
Before Training—Hated Reading.
After Training—Carries a Book Everywhere
When we started the LearningRx program, we were already attending the Huntington Learning Center, but noticed Justin was still struggling in school. They were tutoring him to bring him up to his grade level, but there was still something missing. Justin had been on Ritalin since 1st grade, but it no longer seemed to be working. His grades were steadily dropping along with his self-esteem. When we tried adjusting his medication, it only made him ill and uneasy. He wanted to stop the medication, but every time we tried that in the past, his grades plummeted quickly. He never ate much, had a hard time going to sleep at night, and the medication caused him to have some nervous tics, also, which we were all uncomfortable about. He did not want to be on medication anymore and we did not want his grades to suffer anymore.
We prayed for a solution to our problems and one day soon after, we received some information in the mail about LearningRx. We thought, “Is this the answer to a prayer?” The article gave some statistics about children who no longer need their Ritalin after participating in the program. It would also pinpoint what Justin’s weaknesses were and they would train his brain. That seemed more along the lines of what we thought he needed. He needed to learn how to process things better and faster, and to listen better to instructions that were given at school. He had a lot of problems understanding assignments at school, and therefore struggled with homework, which took all night every night! He had very little free time because school and homework were all consuming. He was anxious to start the program because he wanted learning to come “naturally” like it did to other people.
The first changes we started to see were in his ability to do more and more of his homework by himself. He needed occasional help, but not nearly the amount he needed before. He also started to finish more work at school rather than bringing it all home. The most impressive thing to us was his sudden interest in reading large novels with 400 pages or more! He would always complain about reading in the past and do only what he had to do. We would constantly have to force him to read what was necessary. He chose his summer reading assignment books by which book had the least amount of pages! Now he carries a book everywhere and is always reading, even choosing a book over TV! Justin has also stopped taking medication, is eating normally for a teenager, and is not wired at night like he used to be. His grades are heading upwards instead of down and he is doing it by himself!
Something we have to mention dates back to first grade when the psychologist for the public school district testing Justin. We were told he was not an auditory learner, so he was given a 5-4 plan that mandated that his teachers were to make sure he was given visuals to learn. With the LearningRx program, his auditory processing went from a 9.0 percent to a 71.0 percent. His prior testing had also shown that he had a very high IQ. If that was the case, how could we tap into that potential that Justin had? It was like Justin’s learning capabilities were locked in a room that we had no key for, and LearningRx provided that key. We now look forward to watching Justin grow as a student and a person. We are thrilled with his success and wish that we had known about LearningRx many years ago.
Justin
16 years old
This is a stock image and is not an actual picture of Justin. This has been changed to protect the identity of the student and his family.
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