Tutoring is great if your child fell behind due to illness, frequent moves during the school year, family or personal problems, bullying by a classmate, or difficulties with a particular teacher. A tutor can be very helpful for catching up missed work or for making the college entrance requirements on the Grade 12 math final exam.

However, children who have more than temporary learning challenges are usually lacking critical underlying abilities and require more than what tutoring provides. At Accomplished Learning Centre, we specialize in helping those kids who need more than tutoring.

If any of the following situations apply to your child’s learning abilities, the solution involves more than tutoring or what schools can provide. You need to call Accomplished Learning Centre for the most powerful tools for improving learning abilities.

• Your child is in Kindergarten to Grade 4 and is already struggling.
• Your child is in Grade 5 to Grade 12 and has struggled for more than one grade.
• Your child is in Learning Assistance or needs daily help from the teacher’s assistant.
• Your child is becoming a behaviour problem in the classroom.
• Your child has been diagnosed with learning disabilities, dyslexia, reading disabilities, autism, ASD, PDD-NOS, Asperger’s Syndrome, intellectual disabilities, sensory integrative dysfunction, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, epilepsy, ADD, ADHD, central auditory processing disorder, visual processing deficits, or some other condition that results in learning challenges.
• Your child has not been officially diagnosed with any of the above but you suspect something more serious may be involved.
• You’ve been told that your child is a visual or kinesthetic learner. (This means your child is lacking the auditory processing abilities necessary for reading, attention, and learning especially in Grades 4 to 12, college, and on the job.)
• You and the teacher are completely dumbfounded as to why your bright child struggles with what seems like fairly simple tasks i.e. adding single digit numbers, retaining previously memorized spelling words or math facts, reading (decoding, fluency, comprehension), printing or handwriting neatly, paying attention, remembering a list of three to five instructions, staying on task, understanding what’s been said, etc.
• Every night involves a fight and tears over homework and/or there is an excessive amount of homework and/or you do your child’s homework in order to avoid conflict with the teacher.
• Your child hates school and every morning is a battle to get going.
• Your child’s learning problems are having an impact on your family i.e. you or your spouse are frequently fighting with the child about school or behaviour, you and your spouse fight about the child, your other children feel short-changed for attention, the grandparents feel you either aren’t doing enough or you’re too hard on the child, etc.
• You’ve completely given up hope but a caring friend or family member found this website and suggested it to you.
• ADULTS: Many of the above-mentioned items were true for you as a child and still apply today. These programs are just as viable for you even though much of the material on these pages refers to children.

By clicking on the links that most apply to your child’s areas of difficulty, you will learn why the problems exist and what can be done about it.

• Reading - Difficulty learning to read; poor reading comprehension, fluency, sounding out.
• Writing - Can’t put thoughts on paper.
• Spelling - After much studying, passes the spelling test but misspells words minutes or days later.
• Speech - Examples: says “free” for “three;” /r/ sounds like /l/ or /w/; /s/ sounds like /z/ or /th/, etc.
• Comprehension - Doesn’t understand what’s said or read.
• Attention, concentration - Can’t focus on a task, easily distracted.
• Attention, listening - Doesn’t pay attention to speaker, forgets or can't follow instructions, easily distracted by sounds.
• Overly active - Squirms, tips chair, frequently gets up to sharpen pencil or use bathroom, can be very annoying to other students, teachers, or family members.
• Math - Can’t remember math facts, doesn’t understand word problems, lacks concept understanding.
• Handwriting, printing - Sloppy, off the lines, doesn’t seem to care how it looks.
• Poor memory - Forgets homework at school, doesn’t remember what to do, can’t memorize lists or facts.
• Easily frustrated - Gets angry, gives up, cries, shouts, throws tantrums, or withdraws.
• Unmotivated or lazy - Doesn't seem to care to even try anymore.

Assessment and Parent Consultation

First you need to book an assessment in order to find out what’s really going on. Then you will have a follow-up appointment, a Parent Consultation, to go over the results. Together they only cost $189 and you will get a very good idea of how and why your child is struggling and what can be done about it.

At the Parent Consultation it will also be determined which program or programs would be most suitable to your child's needs, your goals for your child, and your budget.

Programs

Click on the links below to learn more about these programs.

Scientific Learning's Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant: Fast ForWord computer programs are excellent for developing phonological processing, auditory processing, reading, spelling, memory, attention, sequencing, and other cognitive abilities. Reading Assistant is speech recognition software that enables the person to practice by reading to the computer.

Interactive Metronome: IM trains auditory processing and attention, rhythm, and timing. Vijay Singh used it and then won the Masters. It is used by the Miami Dolphins and other athletes. It is usually done in 15 one-hour sessions in our office. IM-HOME is a home version that is available through us.

Advanced Brain Technologies' The Listening Program: Music based auditory stimulation to improve auditory processing, listening, learning, and communication.

Learning Rx's PACE (Processing And Cognitive Enhancement): PACE develops a broad range of cognitive and processing abilities through one-on-one, face-to-face game-like activities with a trainer. Three to five times per week for 12 weeks.

Master the Code: Partners with PACE and works in a similar fashion. It is one-on-one, three times per week for 12 weeks.

Samonas Auditory Intervention: Samonas trains the auditory system with specially recorded and engineered CDs. Even though it is easy to do--you just listen to beautiful music--it can produce amazing results. We offer it in a 10 day intensive.

Contact us by: Contact Form or email or at 604-539-1386.