Extra Education for Children beyond the School in Ballito
Whether your child has dyslexia or battles with maths or physics, his / her issue is behavioral or physical impairment, there is a solution out there.
Words: Rae Dengler | Images: SuppliedIn an era where classrooms are typically at capacity, time seems contracted and the syllabus is more advanced than ever, children in stress or distress at school is all too common. In the ‘good old days’, these children were left to bumble along from the back of the classroom, causing disciplinary havoc or ‘bunking’ out at any opportunity. The new age has help for such children before it gets too challenging to solve.
BLOOM Special Needs School
Bloom is a Special Needs School for children with a variety of diagnosis including Down Syndrome, Autism, Low IQ, Non-specified learning difficulties and children that are not coping in mainstream schools.
Set in a leafy green corner of Salt Rock, the school is staffed with professional special needs teachers and carers of heart. The environment is geared around the unique needs of these children with brightly colored accessories and equipment, multi-sensory experiences and tons and tons of unconditional LOVE.
Contact: 032 815 2701
EDUBLOX reading and learning clinic
If your child has weak cognitive skills such as concentration, perception, memory or logical thinking he will find it a challenge to learn.
Fortunately these skills are easily taught: strong cognitive skills means a child reads, writes and learns faster. Essentially, your child can become smarter by simply working on these mental abilities.
Individual lessons or holiday club programs are available.
Contact Yolande Scholtz – 0325863411.
Sharon Gerkin, Davis Method Dyslexia Facilitator
Herself a dyslexic, Sharon was desperate to find a solution when her eldest son could not read or write at age nine and her youngest could not read either. She stumbled upon the Davis method which transformed their home. Now qualified in the Davis approach, she has successfully helped hundreds of frustrated children and adults to understand, manage and solve the unique learning patterns of the dyslexic brain. Your child need not think he is ‘stupid’ simply because his brain looks at things in a different way!
Contact Sharon: +27 0828285180
Supakids
Devised by Clinical Psychologists, the Supakids program has been created to enhance self esteem in children.
Teaching school going children how to manage their emotions, modify appropriate responses and ‘bounce back’ no matter the crisis, is key to developing healthy and happy children.
If you want to give your child a better start to his future, this is a worthwhile program; it changes lives.
Contact Nikki Simons 0325863403.
Master Maths Ballito
Does your child battle with sections of the syllabus? Are you wanting to better a grade mark? Master Maths/ Master Science can identify Problems and Fix them before the learner falls behind. professional tuition and interactive computer sessions in a user friendly way.
Contact; 032 946 0912
Mind Moves Institute – moves that mend the mind
The concept is a simple one: as a baby grows, develops and moves, it is strengthening its primitive reflexes. The primitive reflex system uses simple movements to neurologically wire the brain, organs, senses and muscles together to communicate effectively with each other. This basic wiring occurs between conception and 14 months of age.
Normal movements a child makes – raising and lowering his head while on his tummy, rolling from tummy to back, bending and straightening while holding on to a table…are repeated some 50,000 times in a child’s normal development. In doing so he is wiring his brain.
What happens if this wiring falls short? ADHD, Dyslexia, Emotional Clinginess or Distancing, Handwriting issues, balance issues…In short, if your child is not in a similar developmental stage as his classmates, he may need exercises to put these primitive reflexes to rest.
Contact: Michaela de Gier 0741012616
Occupational Therapy
Does your child battle at his grade level? Skip words or lines in his reading? Makes mistakes copying from the board to his book? Cannot grasp a pencil or hold scissors correctly? Is clumsy?
Occupational Therapy helps develop gross and fine motor skills as well as visual perception. This helps him to respond to what he sees, fells and hears around him – writing out numbers and letters correctly for example.
Contact Shantal at 0845801208.
Afrikaans Tutor
Many learners find Afrikaans a challenge – not because they battle with the subject matter, but because Afrikaans is perceived as ‘hard’ or ‘difficult’ and ‘no fun.’
Nishi Padachie is an experienced tutor following a program of ‘Afrikaans is Easy – Afrikaans is Fun.’
Nishi Padachie: 0844578034
Kip McGrath
Developing from an Australian team of remedial teachers, the Kip McGrath program establishes where a learner may have ‘gaps’ in his learning. Finding and remedying missing blocks in a child’s education can revolutionize how the child copes at school. The ensuing self-confidence attained through mastering areas he may have struggled with has a positive impact across all subjects.
A specialist is out there to help you and your child. Consult our Business Directory for the right person for your needs.
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