ADHD

Have you ever felt discouraged and frustrated about your child’s behavior or academic performance? Don’t give up: there’s hope. Your child can change because their brain is built to keep growing and learning how to overcome social, emotional, and academic challenges.

Morphemes are word parts that make kids word smart. meaning. Often classified as roots, prefixes, and suffixes, these word parts have one thing in common: they are the keys to decoding a word's meaning.

Covid caused many kids to miss the crucial, foundational kindergarten and first grade years. If Covid cheated your child out of the type of literacy that all kids need to read and succeed, learn more about our Covid catch up classes.

This student with ADHD went from failing all his classes to passing them all because he used movement-based literacy at T.A.G. The Academic Gym.

Homework is fun because we turn dull, boring assignments into homework-outs  at TAG The Academic Gym.

Soon, he was able to recall each long vowel spelling without looking at any written prompts. This combination of rhythmic athletic movements and orthographic chanting had already embedded the sounds and spellings in his head. As soon as he began to sing and move, he accessed that memory groove. Rhythm helps kids remember.

So, if we want our children to succeed, we must teach them to read intentionally, intensively, and proactively, because the brain begins building the foundations for reading from birth. Literacy begins in the cradle, not kindergarten.

At T.A.G. The Academic Gym, we used movement-based learning to help kids with ADHD. Notice how this student is always moving. Now his constant need for movement might be considered a distraction in a standard classroom, but at T.A.G. we use his need to move to his advantage.

Have you wondered why some kids have a difficult time remembering the phonics lessons you just taught them? Phonics (or teaching kids how to match letter-symbols to sounds) does not work effectively unless children already have a mental dictionary of sounds and spellings in their heads. When children have mental phonological (sound) and orthographic (spelling) files embedded in their brains, it's much easier for them to map letters to sounds.

Did you know that reading difficulties are often inherited? If you had trouble learning to read due to traits of ADHD or dyslexia, chances are that your children will also struggle with reading.