Andrea works with parents on developing skills for learning.
Andrea coaches parents in practical strategies to support children in their learning. Parents develop strengths based skills to improve their child’s spelling and literacy. Small group workshops and one on one coaching is available.
Parents
A child who is creative, artistic or fast at solving problems in their head may struggle with a phonetic approach to spelling and reading. Each child has a set of preferred learning strategies. If a child has a preference for using visual strategies and is required to mostly use auditory strategies for spelling they may struggle to spell. This can lead to children mistakenly believing that they are ‘dumb’ or incapable of learning.
It is important to help children become able to think about their flexibility in using learning strategies to suit the situation. Understanding that we can learn 'how to learn' and how to use our brain is part of developing resiliency.
Spelling and learning difficulties
Does your child struggle with blends such as ‘ou’ and ‘oa’? Or do they add a ‘silent e’ to many words because they can’t remember when to add one and when not too? Visual recognition of whole words is a strategy which works well, particularly for children who think in visual images and pictures. The phonics, sounds and meanings of words are all strengthened when a child can hold a picture of the whole word still and clear. This strategy has made a difference for children and adults who have been struggling with spelling, writing, reading and comprehension. Andrea coaches children and a parent or caregiver in an approach using visual imaging to improve spelling. Most children make significant progress with spelling in 4-6 weeks with one coaching session per week and 10 minutes practice per day at home.
Contact Andrea now for a free, no-obligation initial consultation.
Parent Endorsement: 'As parents the visual spelling program has been a huge benefit to us as it has given us techniques to assist with homework and making learning fun. It has been really inspiring to find Andrea and we highly recommend this program.' B & K Warren, 2016.
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