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Helping Children Learn How To Learn
Create Schools Where All Kids Are Smart!

Welcome! Our Center is here to give your child or student the most advanced learning strategies and diagnostic technologies available so that they will be completely successful in school and at home.

How to Diagnose and Correct Your Child's Learning Problems

We have successfully helped over 50,000 children solve their learning challenges. You can use the following questionnaires to determine your child's or student's special learning needs. This information may save your child hours of specialized testing and can be used to report the information to your child's teacher. The information that follows the testing will help you design an individual solution to your child's learning needs.

Before you begin, it is helpful to understand what causes most learning problems. Once you read through these, you will want to have your child or student present so that they can help answer the questions which follow. In this way, you are involving your child in determining what is needed to solve his or her own learning problems.

The Four Primary Reasons for Learning Problems/Disabilities

Years of research and teaching experience has revealed that most learning disabilities, ADHD or "at risk" student learning problems are basically the result of only four things:

  • Learning Styles:a mis-match between the style your child or student learns in (visual, auditory or kinesthetic) and the style in which he/she is tested (mostly visual).  This mis-match may cause problems in learning math facts, spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension and study skills.
  • Vision and Perception:undetected eyesight or visual perception stress problems which cause reading and writing problems.
  • Nutrition: nutritional deficiencies or food allergies which can masquerade as learning disability/behavioral symptoms.
  • Auditory perception problems: the inability to hear various sounds or auditory figure ground problems (the inability to hear the words one person speaks when there is other background noise in the room).
Although other factors such as hearing difficulties, severe emotional distress or organic brain dysfunction may be at the root of a small number of learning problems, the vast majority of children respond with overwhelming success when the four aspects discussed above are addressed.

Questionnaires to Discover the Causes Of Your Child's or Student's Learning Needs

By answering the following questionnaires, you can determine the actual causes of nearly any child's learning difficulties. You will receive more information on how to solve most learning challenges at the end of each questionnaire. You may find that your child or student has a combination of needs, which when dealt with directly, will result in the inspiring success we have found in our 25 years of positive educational experience.

With the exception of true organic brain dysfunction the three causes of most learning problems listed above can easily be determined by answering the questions on each of the following questionnaires:

Want to know how your child learns best? 
Use the Personal Learning Style Inventory

Want to know how to improve your child's reading? 
Use the Parent and Teacher's Guide to Vision Problems

Want to know if food is causing your child's learning problems? 
Use the Food Allergy Questionnaire

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A Message from our Founder:
Pat
Pat Wyman, M.A.

Hello!  My name is Pat Wyman. Thank you for visiting our learning site and for caring so much about children. When children know they are successful as they are learning, their self-esteem goes up and they want to keep learning: today and in the future. Some kids, however, may be frustrated and not getting the grades they want in school even though they may know the material. This is because the school's testing system, as it is set up, won't allow them to show what they know. It is important to understand that the school's testing programs cater to only one type of learner - those who learn best in pictures. Other children who learn best by hearing or touching, cannot possibly do as well in school because their natural learning style does not match that of the school's testing style.

The Center for New Discoveries in Learning provides information, learning strategies and a variety of educational resources which insure that all children will be successful in school. This information is based on exciting new discoveries about the nature of learning and individual learning styles. Our newsletters and video education courses give specific strategies in all subject areas to insure total success in school.

If you'd like to know a little about me and why I created this site, read on: I have two children, ages 15 and 17 and have been a teacher for over 20 years. I have a Masters Degree in Education and am totally committed to helping all children be successful. After teaching nearly every grade in school, I am now an Instructor of Education at California State University, Hayward, Extension Division. I train teachers all over the country in seminars and in my Super Teaching Strategies video course about how learning occurs, so they are able to teach all of their students how to learn any subject easier and faster.

As a Reading Specialist, I am especially interested in solving reading problems, so we offer a video course filmed at Stanford University with Ron Davis, author of the Gift of Dyslexia. This video is for educators and parents to learn the Davis Dyslexia Correction methods for children and adults!

I am also interested in how nutrition affects learning. My book, What's Food Got To Do With It? - 101 Natural Remedies for Learning Disabilities, explores how food allergies can cause ADD and ADHD learning disability symptoms.

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