Struggling to Thriving – Aria’s Academic Transformation!
What enabled Aria’s academic transformation from struggling to thriving?
Like many students who struggle with reading, Aria was receiving reading help through her school, but she was still significantly below grade level. Why can tutoring or school interventions help some students thrive, but others continue to struggle? For students who just need to catch-up a bit, tutoring may help. For those who are far behind and experiencing reading challenges year-after-year, the root cause relates to skill weaknesses that tutoring or more academics do not address.For Aria, the root cause of her reading struggles related to weaknesses in long-term memory, working memory and auditory processing. Tutoring can provide more opportunities to practice reading skills, but they are trying to improve reading despite these weaknesses. But when the cause of the reading struggle is not addressed, kids continue to struggle. In fact, research shows that if students are not caught up in reading by the end of 3rd grade, they rarely catch up.
This is not true for students who address the root cause via LearningRx training. In fact, recent peer-reviewed research shows significant gains in reading skills in just 24 weeks of training!
Those gains include:
- An average gain across five reading skills was 4.1 years in just 24 weeks.
- An average gain in phonological awareness of nearly 6 years in just 24 weeks.
- An average gain in phonetic coding of 5.5 years in just 24 weeks.
- An average gain in spelling of 2.2 years in just 24 weeks.
- An average gain in Word Attack was 2.9 years in just 24 weeks.
This was the experience for Aria. Her mom wrote, “My child was struggling so much with reading in school and at home. She had one-on-one help through the school for a full school year but was still significantly below grade level. Her frustration began to build with tests taking almost 3x longer for her to complete when compared to her peers. She started to dislike going to school because it was too difficult. Anytime we tried to do homework, it resulted in big feelings and frustration. Those days are gone. She has grown tremendously with LearningRx. She is volunteering to read at school and has improved in her skills in many ways. The biggest change is her growth in confidence and resilience.”
Are you looking for reading help and ready to address the root cause to help your child get past these struggles, then it’s time to call LearningRx in Woodbury. Our 1-on-1 training programs are individualized based on each student’s needs to ensure each student’s improvements are as significant as possible.
