True Stories: Justin, 16 Years Old

Ten years of frustration… Six months to success

A Struggling Sophomore Discovers His Potential

By Justin’s parents, Sheree & Bill

When we started with the LearningRx program, we were already attendingthe Huntington Learning Center™, but noticed Justin was still strugglingthrough his sophomore year schoolwork. They were tutoring him to bringhim up to his grade level, but there was still something missing. Justinhad been on Ritalin® since first grade, but it no longer seemed tobe working. His grades were steadily dropping along with his self-esteem.

We tried adjusting his medication, but it only made him ill and uneasy.He wanted to stop the medication, but every time we tried, his grades plummeted quickly. He never ate much, had a hard time going to sleep at night, and the medicationcaused him to have some nervous tics, which we were all uncomfortableabout. He did not want to be on medication anymore, and we did not wanthis grades to suffer anymore. We prayed for a solution to our problems…

One day soon after, we received some information in the mail about LearningRx.We thought, “Is this the answer to a prayer?” The articlegave some statistics about children who no longer needed their Ritalin®after participating in the program. It also promised to pinpoint whatJustin’s weaknesses were, and that they could train his brain. Thatseemed more along the lines of what we thought could help. He needed tolearn how to process things better and faster, and to listen better toinstructions that were given at school. He had a lot of problems understandingassignments at school, and therefore struggled with homework, which tookall night every night! He had very little free time because school andhomework were all-consuming.He was anxious to start the program because he wanted learning to come“naturally” like it did to other people.

The first changes we started to see were in his ability to do more andmore of his homework by himself. He needed occasional help, but not nearlythe amount he needed before. He also started to finish more work at schoolrather than bringing it all home. The most impressive thing to us washis sudden interest in reading large novels with 400 pages or more! Hewould always complain about reading in the past and do only what he had to do.

Before his training, we would constantly have to force him to read whatwas necessary. He chose his summer reading assignment books by which bookhad the least amount of pages!Now he carries a book everywhere and is always reading, even choosing abook over TV!

Justin has also stopped taking medication, is eating normally for a teenager,and is not wired at night like he used to be. His grades are heading upwardsinstead of down and he is doing it by himself!

There is another point I just have to share. Almost 10 years ago, whenJustin was in first grade, he was tested by the public school district.The psychologist for the school told us he was not an auditory learner,so he was given a 504 Plan that mandated that his teachers were to makesure he was given visuals to learn. Those efforts never really seemedto help, but 10 years later, through the LearningRx program, his auditoryprocessing jumped from a 9 percent to a 71 percent. His prior testinghad also shown that he had a very high IQ in spite of the struggles. Ifthat was the case, how could we tap into that potential?It was like Justin’s learning capabilities were locked in a roomfor which we had no key. LearningRx finally provided that key. We now look forward to watchingJustin grow as a student and a person. We are thrilled with his successand only wish that we had known about LearningRx many years ago.

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