Help is here for learning differences.
Our specialists, our director, our office can direct you to our resources for
parents and teachers or community resources. Find help for this important
individual in your life. We look forward to talking with you. And uncovering the
mind and the possibility that you know are there. 316.684.READ (7323).
Through eye, ear, touch, motion in a hand, an arm, a body, in the blink of a mind,
a memory is born. A path to learn is found. Teach a teacher how to look for it,
a parent how to hope for it, a child how to find it and the path will be taken.
Butterfly becomes bufferty. A child, a young adult of high intelligence now
learns with unexpected difficulty. Confusion rules, too often for a lifetime.
Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Auditory Processing Disorder are often
suspected, sometimes found.
We assess and daily teach around complex learning differences by using all
senses to read, write, speak, and spell.
Skills for life are here. Support for parents, instruction for teachers are here.
Help is here.
Find the difference. Find a way to use it. Or go around.
From medical professionals at the Scottish Rite Hospital for children in
Dallas, Texas, a total language regimen to teach to read, write and spell has
emerged. And been shown to be effective.
Alphabetic Phonics techniques cover 85 percent of the most frequently used
words in the English language, and a student completing their work with us
is usually able to score at grade level or above on standardized tests.
It is a comprehensive, upgraded and sequential curriculum. Our educational
specialists use multisensory instruction techniques to teach reading,
handwriting, spelling, listening, and written expression.
Each one-hour session is broken down into 10 different activities for the same
daily sequence. Short attention spans dictate two-to 10-minute segments. Times
for each segment are gradually made longer as the student learns to cope.
The pace is geared to the ability and learning style of each individual
learner. Learning by delight often happens along the way.
Millions struggle undiagnosed.
Neurological in origin, a learning difference interferes with an individual's
ability to store, process or produce information. Every racial, ethnic and
economic background has children that are undiagnosed.
A learning difference will affect a child's ability to read, write, speak, and
compute math and will impede development of social skills. An ever-widening
gap develops between their true capability and their day-by-day performance.
At-risk behaviors develop. A sense of worthlessness overwhelms the child you love.
Early diagnosis between the ages of 6 and 8 is best but not always achieved.
Students benefit most from individualized teacher attention, consistent
behavior management and multisensory reading, spelling and writing. These
regimens are often absent or unavailable in their existing public, private
or parochial school environment.
Appropriate intervention and support can result in individual success and a
productive and fulfilling life.
Here is hope.
From small sounds to small words, easy ideas are attached.
Sounds and how they work within their environment come first. "Phonology" is
the big word for it. Sounds to build words with. Sounds to build ideas with.
Match sounds to letters and know combinations of letter sounds. Sound-to-symbol
association.
Small pieces of speech with one vowel sound become friends. The "syllable."
Know one when you hear one, know one when you see one. Weave them well. Six
reliable syllable patterns and you have the English language.
The smallest units of meaning in our language, like "read," string together
and make new words. Add "read" to "ing" and you get "reading." Morph the
meaning and you study morphemes. And morphology. Two more big words.
Weave together words and convey a wealth of new meaning. Syntax, the study
of sequence and function of words, includes grammar, sentence variation and
the mechanics of language.
Meaning, or semantics, is all that's left. We set out and find it.
Learning difference.
Teaching difference.
Two years of custom teaching. Two years of custom support. Two years of
watching your child grow as an individual.
From hiding with a pillow in the corner to becoming a vibrant learner of life,
we hope to develop a child who will celebrate all their sharp, inborn language
and mental skills have to offer.
FUN·da·men·tal Learning Center employs dedicated specialists within our
community who instruct teachers, parents, and children regarding learning
differences.
Director of the center, Jeanine Phillips, received her training as a certified
academic language therapist instructor for the Academic Language Therapist
Association in Dallas. She holds a master's degree in education from Newman
University and a bachelor's degree from Wichita State University.
Please call us with any questions regarding
ways that we can assess your
child's needs or to talk through ways that we may be able to help.
We instruct teachers with graduate level courses in Alphabetic Phonics and
Academic Language Therapy and workshops in reading readiness, multisensory
grammar, written composition and scientific spelling.
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