Reading and Math Programs

Improve Reading / Math: Reading Plus, Visagraph Reading Assessment System, Special Education
 

Learning disorders that involve reading speed and the ability to perform calculations are considered to be left-brain related. The right-brain would control reading comprehension and math reasoning. If a child is struggling with math calculation and/or didactic reading, we approach the problem as a left-brain issue.

Brainchild Achievement Center provides treatment programs designed to help improve children's learning disorders that involve reading speed and the ability to perform calculations caused by a neurological imbalance of the hemispheres of the brain.

Addressing Reading Issues

The reading program we use is called Reading Plus, a home-based, software-generated program that focuses on the fundamental eye movements needed to read efficiently.

Reading is a complex process that involves close interaction among visual, perceptual, and cognitive functions. A child with poor visual skills and perceptual inaccuracies will have trouble understanding and retaining what they learn because brain function focuses on text processing, rather than comprehension.

Reading Plus® has achieved extensive, documented success in producing substantial gains in fluency in silent reading, comprehension, vocabulary, and overall reading proficiency for thousands of students in grades three through college.

Reading Plus® utilizes the Visagraph® Reading Assessment System to map the child's eye movements while they're reading dynamically. With the Visagraph, we can:

• Detect visual, perceptual, and information processing deficiencies that hinder reading development

• Identify instructional modifications of Reading Plus® remediation system

• Motivate children by providing visual representations of "how" they read

• Track patients' interim progress and overall achievement of reading goals within Reading Plus® 
  
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The assessment information is incorporated into the Reading Plus software to establish a baseline for a independent reading program for the child to perform at home. The child logs into Reading Plus via the internet. Generally, the program consists of 40 sessions over a 16 week period.

We then repeat the Visagraph assessment to determine the changes in the child's fundamental eye movement during reading.

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Addressing Math Issues

For our Math Improvement Program, we have a special education teacher on staff to specifically design an individual program to improve a child's math function.

We address these problems from a left-brain standpoint and design treatments to specifically target the areas of the brain that control and regulate these functions.