Strengthens attention and improves reading related motor functions.
Candidates have made average comprehension gains of a year and decoding gains of almost two years, in less than a month
THE young dyslexic child begins school, full of enthusiasm and curiosity. Very quickly that enthusiasm dwindles to confusion and inability to make sense of the words on the page. The bright teenager is struggling with English but excelling in other subjects.
Parents suspect that something is not quite right. School reports show the child is lagging behind the rest of the class. Extra learning support is provided but the child plateaus and nothing seems to work.
The causes of reading disabilities involve auditory, visual and motor functions. Recent brain scan research shows auditory, visual and motor functions must be activated and coordinated at the same time. This allows the neural bonds between letters and sound combinations to develop. This is vital to the reading process.
The Celifield tntervention is a neuroscientific reading programme scientists describe as powerful, remarkable and brilliant. The Celifield Intervention is the first software designed to target auditory, visual and motor pathways simultaneously. It expands working memory, with Cellfield Intervention. Improvement has also been noted in spoken language, handwriting, numeracy, ba ’ance, co-ordination and music skills.
Children and adults with dyslexia see words as designs, rather than a series of symbols representing sounds. Data confirms that Cellfield improves decoding skills significantly.
Irlen Syndrome is a piece of the puzzle of dyslexia and presents as visual distortions of print. People with Irlen Syndrome have a visual perceptual disorder that affects the way they see the print on the page. The client can often be helped with specially tinted Irlen lenses.
The Cellfield Intervention and Irlen screening are available at the Tauranga/Mt Maunganui Kip McGrath Education Center. The school holidays provide a wonderful opportunity to get your child up to speed for Term One, 2009.
The Kip McGrath Education Center is now accepting enrolments for the holiday workshops in numeracy, young writers programme as well as the standard Kip tuition.
For a free consultation and assessment call Judith 578 1518 or email kramac@clear.net.nz
Judith Kramer Director- Kip McGrath Center
Bay of Plenty Times,
Tauranga Bay,New Zealand
Disabilities need intervention
