LearningRx Charlottesville Blog

Summer is often a busy season filled with commitments, travel, and activities… So why do summer reading? Why should you add one more thing to your plate during this time that is supposed to be a season of “rest” but often feels like anything but? When families do summer reading, they are investing in the ...

When Dee and her husband brought their foster-to-adoption son Jon into our LearningRx center, they were wondering what in the world they were going to do. He’d been in public school, but they pulled him to homeschool and try to really understand what his struggles were. With over 21 years’ experience homeschooling, Dee knew that ...

Our kids are always learning. Whether it’s in formal school, camps, or just the day-to-day life of being a kid, learning never stops because cognitive skills are constantly working to process new stimuli. Everything from problem-solving amongst friends at the pool to reading road signs as you drive to the beach counts as summer learning ...

Being a parent of kids with ADHD can be hard. They are often unfocused, unmotivated, obstinate, and falling behind in school… but they are also often abundantly energetic and creative. ADHD doesn’t have to be a diagnosis that determines how your child is able to learn and function in school or everyday life. It can ...

You sit down with your child and teach reading, or they come home from school and you are excited to practice their newly-learned skill… and it’s crickets. There is no confidence, no fluency, and your child’s reading struggles frustrate them (and maybe you too, if we’re being honest).  Reading struggles are hard to navigate. After ...

You start your school year with an exciting new homeschool curriculum, but it just doesn’t click. What are you going to do? Keep trying? Push through? Try something new? The curriculum carousel is an exhausting ritual in many homeschool families. They try something and it doesn’t work, or it doesn’t work as well for one ...

Alzheimers and dementia are debilitating conditions that have taken their toll on millions of us. So many people deal with these conditions first-hand, support family members through them, or deal with their effects in a different way. But what can you do to protect your brain health and prevent cognitive decline? Research is beginning to ...

Was your child in pre-K through 3rd grade when the pandemic began in 2020? If so, they are likely one of the millions of elementary students who now need intensive reading help. Research shows ⅓ of ALL elementary age kids in the US now need some sort of remedial reading intervention. An entire generation of ...

As parents, we’d do anything for our children. Braces. Summer camps. Travel sports. Music lessons. These things fill our schedules, and some would even call them rites of passage. But when it comes to investing in your child, what if you could sign them up for a program that would make learning easier, reading more ...