Frequently Asked Questions
We have put together some information to help with frequently asked questions our clients ask that may help you in understanding how we can help you. We are often asked similar questions addressing these very important concerns:
How is Prescription for Success different from educational franchises?
Prescription for Success is independently owned and operated by licensed, highly educated, learning specialists. We utilize the universally accepted SOI Systems, a test that evaluates cognition, sensory-motor integration and perception (visual and auditory skills). Our investment fees are totally competitive and simple, not based on “unvarying, impersonal” programs.
Our programs are prescriptive in nature.
From your initial contact to professional diagnostic assessments and research based programs, we will work with you in creating a tailored program to fit your specific needs. Each client will have individual testing, not group testing.
Our school says my child is not eligible for services yet he is still not achieving in the classroom. How can this happen?
Unfortunately, eligibility within school programs are mostly based on their criteria of test scores and grades. Thousands of students silently struggle with learning difficulties that are deemed unqualified for services. Our programs are designed to help these students caught in the middle.
My child gets good grades, but it takes her or him so long to get the work done. What can we do about this?
Our comprehensive assessment will pinpoint the source of the difficulty, but in this case, we often see weak visual and auditory skills and slow processing speeds for those that struggle to complete their work in a timely manner. Doing sequenced visual skills is very helpful. We often use Metronome Therapy, a tool that introduces rhythm and time to the learning process.
This has proven to be excellent for increasing the processing speeds of students. “The Listening Program” improves auditory processing speed.
My child has been tutored for several years. Will my child always need tutoring?
Sadly, I have to answer yes until you discover the specific reason why your child is having learning struggles. Tutoring delivers the same content that a learner is presented with in school. School curriculum is broken into smaller pieces and usually presented with different methods, but tutoring does not address the problems causing the symptoms slow processing speeds, dyslexia, ADD, etc. If tutoring has not significantly helped your child after three months, you need to look into finding out what is the true cause of your child’s learning problems. Our distinguished assessments and personalized learning programs have highly impressed our clients along with diagnostic assessments and thorough reporting information that they receive.
What can we do for fun to keep my kid’s academic skills sharp”?
Encourage as much movement as possible, especially outdoor activities. Bicycles are wonderful for children to develop their gross motor skills, sensory motor integration, balance, coordination, and muscles. Various ball activities are of tremendous help in developing eye-hand coordination. Board games, building blocks, puzzles, are wonderful in developing visual skills.
Do not let your child/children excessively use the computer. It’s been proven that many children end up with glasses and other visual problems from playing on the computer too long. The maximum daily time spent on computerized games should be no more than an hour.
Why does it seem that so many children are having learning problems compared to when I went to school?
Learning problems have been prevalent throughout history, but being immersed with information from the Internet, associations, schools, radio, and all forms of print media, enables us to be current on any topic.
Our communication system is excellent and we can find out information in such a short amount of time on the Internet.
Our assessment basis for learning problems has been refined in the past twenty years.
Brain research and its results have been explosive in identifying and working with learning problems
Children spend excessive time with computer games and watching television; this leads to visual, auditory, gross and fine motor skill difficulties, poor attention, and listening difficulties.
Children need to run and play as much as possible outdoors to stimulate all of their learning avenues.
Children’s diets are often full of poor nutritional foods.
With both parents working outside the home, children’s learning needs along with homework may tend to be relegated to less importance.
Parents feel the need to involve their child in too many extracurricular activities at too young of age. Children today just do not have enough of simple, pure imaginative play time.
Schools are not able to give as much personal attention to student’s problems due to the impact of the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND federal regulations and demands on the school systems. Next time you have a parent teacher conference, ask your child’s teacher how much time is spent studying for the CSAP tests during the school day.
Schools are eliminating recess and essential play time for the primary and intermediate grades.
Children need to have time devoted to reading for fun. Often, parents tend to make each reading session a phonics lesson and children are “turned off” from reading.
Why is my child so stressed out about going to school?
Stress is real for the youngest of learners. Stress affects ALL learners, but it is especially taxing on those with learning difficulties. More children are developing stress related problems due to the “pressures” of school, the advanced and fast-paced curriculums. Once again, the lack of play and recess time is a big contributing factor; without recess time, how can a student release the build-up of stress? This can take a toll on children and it often carries over into the home environment. At home, emphasize to your child that the most important thing in school is to do their best; do not focus on the grades. Send a stress ball to school with your child; contact your child’s teacher for permission for your child to use the ball to squeeze when your child feels the need for a release of stress. At home, teach your child a few calming Yoga exercises. Deep breathing can easily be done in school, too. Finally, have your child play outside after school for at least thirty minutes to an hour before having homework time.
My older child is virtually a non-reader. Can you turn my child into a reader?
We work with students that are non-readers or are 2-3 years behind their current grade level in reading. Brilliant children can experience difficulty reading because one or more of the essential learning skills for reading are undeveloped. We correct the cause/causes of the learning problem and then, working with our proven, multi-dimensional materials, we will teach your child to read or eliminate the discrepancy between grade level readings.
Do many students have Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is much more common than one would believe. Statistics vary from the different Dyslexic associations. They range from: 1 out of 10, 1 out of 8, to 1 out of 5 children suffering from Dyslexia.
The International Dyslexia Association says that 15-20% of the population has a reading disability. Of those, 85% have Dyslexia.
Prescription for Success
Claudette & Perry Anderson
(303) 993-4648
Parker, CO
email us at: info@prescriptionforsuccess.net
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