Behavior and Cognitive Intervention

Behavior and Cognitive Intervention

Behavior and Cognitive Intervention – Stay Positive

The Third action step: Stay Positive Toward Teachers and the educational system
When you see dramatic learning progress in your student, resist getting negative toward or harshly judging the teachers and schools that seemed to have failed your child. Remember, no one set out deliberately to label or hurt your son or daughter. Teachers and others at school are dedicated professionals doing their absolute best -- often under stressful circumstances. They’ll be pleased, too, as your child becomes a better student. Enlist teachers as allies for your child’s educational progress. After the cognitive skills training, your child will be equipped to maximize his public, private, or home school education.

Behavior and Cognitive Intervention – Action!
Warning: Don’t delay -- now’s the time to act!

I implore you not to wait to take charge and act on behalf of your child. Don’t let him or her become part of these statistics:

  • Nearly four out of ten fourth graders in our country read below basic level2 and three out of those four will never improve without effective intervention.
  • A considerable percentage (26.7%) of high school students identified as having learning disabilities drop out of school prior to graduation.3 (2005 drop-out rates rose to over 30%)4 Another 16% of students with learning disabilities exit school for “unknown” reasons without a diploma.
Imagine the consequences for these students and, ultimately, for the nation. These are the same bright children, so full of excitement and confidence, who sang the alphabet song before kindergarten. Now, however, they will almost certainly not fulfill their potential without the appropriate help.

Why does this happen to our most precious resource? The simple answer revolves around the essential fundamentals of learning. Some children’s basic reading and learning competencies weren’t strengthened early in their education.

What sort of frustration will your child face while he or she is in school? Worse yet, might he or she leave school without a diploma? These are serious matters. No child should be denied the joy of learning because of some correctable but hidden cognitive weakness.

The most important thing is to intervene early enough to make a difference in your child’s life. Act now -- while the damage can be kept to a minimum. Even if your son or daughter has struggled for years in school, it’s not too late to reverse the damage done.

I hate to say this, but even when made aware of the value of early intervention, four out of ten parents wait at least twelve months before they get help for a struggling child. The other parents wait even longer. Sadly, some never seek the needed professional help.

Please ask yourself: “Can my child afford to have me be like the four of ten parents who wait a year or more to try and find out why their child is having such a struggle keeping up with the rest of the class?”

Take charge today! You and your child will never regret it! Remember this: no matter how much money schools throw at special education, new textbooks, enthusiastic teachers, and interactive classrooms, it does not negate the fact that kids have underlying learning issues that are not being solved. Until parents take the proactive steps to remediate and eliminate those problems, children will suffer day after day, year after year. Help your kids become smarter…forever, with powerful, intense, proven training that will alter their academic, social, and home lives forever. You will have a new child -- one with increased self-esteem, confidence, and more ability than you ever dreamed possible.

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2 Perie, M., Grigg, W., and Donahue, P. The Nation’s Report Card: Reading 2005 (NCES 2006-451). U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2005.
3 G. Reid Lyon, Special Education for Students with Disabilities; The Future of Children. Volume 6 - Number 1 – 1996.
4 Thornburgh, Nathan. Dropout Nation. TIME. April 17, 2006.

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