Good Sensory Learning Blog

Learning to follow both aural and written directions is a crucial skill for students to master. It is the foundation of learning and difficulties in this area can impact a student’s ability to focus, follow a sequence of steps, take notes, answer questions as well as show their knowledge on written assignments and even tests. What Causes Difficulties in Following Directions? Even if a student appears to be listening, it doesn’t mean that they will actually follow directions. Once a student hears the information, the brain needs to make sense of the sounds, and weaknesses in attention, auditory processing, visual processing,...

After a long day of school, many kids are cognitively spent and they have little patience and energy to pull out their assignment pad and slog through more academic work.  Often, what should take little time, drags out into hours and hours and families are often desperate for manageable solutions. What Can We Do to Make Homework a Manageable Task? Stop calling it homework!  Just the name can trigger pouty moods and cantankerous behaviors.  Find another word to use such as assignments or activities.  Use a timer to help some students stay on track.  I usually set the timer for...

Tracking is the ability to move one's eyes smoothly across the page from one word to another as well as from one line of text to another.  For some learners, however, this is a challenging task.  Instead, their eyes jump back and forth and struggle to stay on a single line of text.  This can result in problems such as word omissions, reversals, eye fatigue, losing one's place while reading, and most importantly it can undermine reading comprehension. Can Tracking be Improved? Yes, one can improve tracking by strengthening eye muscles and getting one's eyes and brain to work together....

I am so excited to tell you about my publication, MPower: Cognitive Remedial Card Games! MPower offers a selection of multisensory sorting games that improve memory, processing speed, and multiple ways of processing for enhanced learning of core academics, such as reading and math. This publication is ideal for developing early literacy skills, teaching new ways to encode knowledge, and helping struggling learners find joy in the learning process. It is also a powerful rehabilitation tool that can be used for those with cognitive ailments like head injuries and alzheimer's. MPower can be used by therapists, teachers and even parents to achieve...

For many young learners, reading is a tantalizing adventure into the imagination of an author and a fun way to increase knowledge. However, for other learners, reading can be a tedious chore that can result in avoidance and even tantrums.  So, what can you do when a child hates to read?  It is a two-step process.  First, one must reveal the specific difficulty.  Then, one must pick among a number of solutions. Uncover the Problem or Problems There are a number of learning difficulties that can make the process of reading a dull and laborious grind, and uncovering the core...