The intention of this blog is that by sharing my experiences as a mother of a child with LD (and also as a wife of and incredible man with LD) and as an educational therapist that worked with students with emotional disabilities as well, others can receive hope and find the answers they are looking for.
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When I started dating my husband Robert, I could not read his love letters and always made fun of him when he used the wrong but quite similar words in some situations. I wasn’t aware that his Dyslexia and his struggle to sustain attention were the reasons he would display a great sense of humor and act silly so that other people would laugh. I married him ignoring the fact that Dyslexia is an inherent trait. Few years later everything made sense and I found myself reading and learning as much as I could just to help my son Gabriel learn how to read, spell, express complete ideas and maintain focus. I read about teaching him using a systematic, structure, sequential and multi-sensorial program for readers and having no clue what the terms meant. After all I graduated from a master’s in environmental health and those terms made no sense to me.
One thing was for sure my son was going to learn, and I was going to get all the required knowledge to teach him, that is when I decided to become an educational therapist. As an educational therapist I have the joy to work with different kind of learners and finding the key to use their strengths to help them become successful and happy learners, that is my main goal with all my students. From math phobias to dyslexia, every child has a genuine desire to learn, to have fun while learning and to be recognized for their strengths and skills. My main target is that all my students develop an empowering learning mindset..
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Mom, I think I have ADD!
A couple of months ago my younger daughter who is a junior at high school came to me using this expression: “Mom, I think I have ADD”. I replied to her: “What makes you think you have an attention deficit disorder?” She said: “do you know how hard it is for me to learn in …
A mile in his shoes
Going through different stages in our kids’ development brings unique experiences and feelings sometimes is about frustration, sadness, uncertainty, fear, hope, joy or fulfillment, but that is what makes life worth living. When Gabriel became a senior in high school it was time to start planning his higher education, visiting schools,filling applications, taking SATs, writing …
About other therapies…
Multiple therapies are effective in any treatment. Goals are created to support and teach clients in their struggling areas. I was lucky to work with some amazing therapists for the past years and witnessed positive changes in some clients that were exposed to all these interventions. For example recreational therapy which targets depression and stress …
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