School and Learning Difficulties

Kids Falling Behind at School?

If your children are doing badly at school, in this day and age, everyone looks for someone to blame. Common statements would be:

• The kids may not be very bright.
• The teacher is not very good.
• The parents aren’t supervising the child’s homework.
• The parents are not teaching the child good behavior, which is why the children play up so much at school and are doing so badly at school.
• The textbooks are useless.
• The child need more help and individual tuition.
• The teacher is too busy to help my child.
• The education system is letting my child down. etc!

Very few people consider the problems from the child’s perspective. In the Paill Spectrum scenario: Yes, the child is not learning, but No its not really anyone's fault. Furthermore a number of simple strategies can make a big long term difference to the child's success at school, in learning and in reading.

Some children have severe memory problems. Other children have problems recognizing words, have poor spelling and often substitute letters. Many children fail to succeed because circumstances do not allow them to succeed.

How do I Know if my Child has a Problem?

Commonly, many children develop failures in brain processing of information. For example, children may often be given complex instructions of which they can only remember to do the last thing they have been told, having forgotten what the rest of the instructions were. An example, I saw once was a child who was wandering around the classroom annoying other children and was receiving detentions and punishments for his behavior. The mother said that the teacher had told the child to open his exercise book, get a pencil from the back of the room and then answer the questions on the blackboard. Oh, yes, you’ll need the English textbook to read the story.

Consider these instructions from the child’s point of view. All they remember is that they need to answer the questions from the blackboard. They don’t know what it is that they need to answer the questions about because they either have not linked the story they have been reading with the questions on the blackboard or did not remember enough of the story they have been reading to realize that the questions on the blackboard relate to this particular story. Alternatively, their word recognition is poor so that they are completely confused as they don’t understand the story at all.

They don’t know that they have to open the exercise book so don’t know where to write the answers down. They don’t have a pencil in any case.

These children are unable to process instruction sequences, either in memory or in memory sequences. This process in the Paill Spectrum theory is likely to be reversible.

What does this child do at this point in time? (Having received the complex list of what to do?). Exactly what the child does in fact do. Wander around the room annoying other kids because they have become completely lost in terms of what they are supposed to do.

They are not bad kids. They are kids with very severe unrecognized problems.

How Can I Assess This Type of Problem in A Child?

The traditional assessments of this learning difficulty involves a complex assessment of a number of learning skills and takes a trained health professional at least an hour to administer. Fees involved are often high. The result is "sort of useful " but nothing really can be done specifically to fix the problems found. Many specialists assess the child and strange descriptive terms like “dyspraxia” may finally be settled on as a diagnosis. Every one seems to find diagnosis difficult and there don't seem to be any specific treatments.

The Paill Spectrum disease model proposes a "rapid screening test" able to be administered by an untrained person and able to be administered to an entire classroom or group of children in minutes. There are very specific patterns of response that emerge when these tests are done.

The test is a number recall test, not a spelling or word recall test. There are good but simple reasons for this. In words there are complex sets of rules that may predict what letters should appear in a word. In number recall, every number is an independent number. It is just as likely that any number can be in any position, so that pattern recognition or recall or learning is not tested. What is tested is innate or “brain hard wired” speech symbol processing ability.

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Results Of a Test : Interpretation

• In children with problems, it is worthwhile to watch the child doing the test. Hesitation and difficulty in doing the task tell a story also. As children improve they become faster and more confident in their responses.

Treatment

There are a number of therapies. Even something as simple as ensuring that the child takes a vitamin tablet every day can result in substantial improvement in test scores over a number of months.

Strangely, there are a number of other ancillary effects often noticed with time. Children become less moody and impulsive. Their behavior is better. They get on better with their piers and with their siblings and with their parents. They will often fight a lot less.

In seeing these types of response, it becomes obvious that there is something strange going on in these children. The problem is easily recognized if the symptoms are known.

The Paill Spectrum model of disease describes a specific group of symptoms of signs that can be used to predict wellness or unwellness. There are also specific blood tests that show very specific patterns of abnormality and of response to treatment.

Simple treatments if they follow the Paill Spectrum treatment model, can make a substantial difference to the health status of the child over months. Even simple nutritional changes such as making the child take a good quality multivitamin every day can make a difference to the child’s long-term health status.

The child’s memory, learning and behavior all improve. This improvement is generally obvious to teachers, parents, siblings and acquaintances. The improvement can be dramatic. I particularly remember one father who summed up the situation nicely: in very ordinary language. He said, ” He’s not an effing pain in the arse anymore”.

This type of improvement can be very obvious when appropriate therapy is instituted.

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