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Dyslexia: Understanding and Remediating Auditory Processing Skills

Although several cognitive processing deficits can cause a diagnosis of dyslexia or a reading disability, challenges with auditory processing tend to be the prevailing cause for many struggling re...

How Can Auditory Processing Be Improved with Fun Games?

Many students who struggle with auditory processing weaknesses can be irritating to teachers and family members because they just don't seem to pay attention or follow verbal directions.  In additi...

Auditory Processing Skills: Types, Tests, and Ways to Improve Them

A child may seem distracted or have difficulty understanding spoken information, but the problem may have little to do with attention, effort, or intelligence. Sometimes, the real challenge is mak...

Auditory Discrimination Deficits Can Result in Funny Misunderstandings

As a child, I was often teased by my silly misunderstandings of expressions, phrases, words, and even lyrics to songs. Although my hearing was excellent, I struggled with auditory discrimination di...

Slow Processing Speed - 5 Ways it Impacts Learning

Dear Friends: Over the next two weeks, I will be writing about processing speed. This week, I will focus on how processing speed can be evaluated, the causes of a slow processing speed, and the 5 w...

7 Powerful Strategies To Improve Processing Speed

Dear Friends: This is my second post on processing speed. Last week, I addressed the definition, causes, assessment options, and revealed 5 ways that a slow processing speed can impact learning. ...

Understanding Executive Functions and Processing Speed: A Deep Dive into Cognitive Dynamics

Processing speed and executive functions play pivotal roles in learning, productivity, and overall cognitive performance. For many students, processing speed can be a major factor in academic succe...

7 Mindful Methods Boost Sensory Processing for Improved Learning

An awesome sunset will likely capture one’s attention for a minute or two, but much of our sensory processing information remains overlooked. Although we are subconsciously processing our surroundi...

Different Ways of Learning: 12 Ways We Process Information

Have you ever wondered why one person remembers every detail of a conversation while another needs to see the information, talk it through, move while learning, or connect it to a real experience ...

The Best Reading Remediation: Tackling the 3 Core Cognitive Skills

There are a plethora of reading programs that walk students through the rules, patterns, and irregularities of our complicated English language; however, many students need to begin their remedial...

Listening Skill Activities and Discovering the Causes

It is easy for parents and even teachers to lose their cool when children do not listen to repeated directions. So, if kids aren’t making sense of what they hear, how can the learning process even ...

The Different Types of Dyslexia: Targeting Intervention

Although reading disorders were recognized back in the late 1800s, the term dyslexia didn't become a recognized condition until the 1970s-1980s.   Since then, it has received an enormous amount o...

Cognitive Remedial Therapy for Student with Learning Disabilities: What is it?

The brain is much like the body. If we exercise areas that are weak or underdeveloped, we can overcome significant difficulties. In fact, we may even be able to turn a weakness into a strength.  J...

Dysphonetic and Dyseidetic Dyslexia - What is the Difference?

Meeting the needs of a student with dyslexia can be a complicated process because most require an individualized approach. Although two students might struggle with common symptoms such as word rev...

Dyslexia Strategies: Improving Your Memory for Names

I think we are all familiar with the embarrassment of occasionally forgetting a person's name.  However, this is a common difficulty for individuals with dyslexia, and it is called word retrieval ...

How Can I Improve My Reading Speed and Comprehension?

There are all sorts of companies that are trying to sell “speed reading” programs and a “quick comprehension fix.” I often evaluate these products, and I continually find them too good to be true. ...

How to Address Spelling Needs and Nurture Student Success

This week, I am thrilled to share a case study of a fabulous teacher named Kim from Cape Town in South Africa. Kim teaches a 3rd-grade class at a special needs school. The children range from 10...

Exposing Teachers to the 12 Ways of Learning

Many teachers are aware of the four basic learning styles: visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. But did you know that there are eight more common ways that the brain processes information? A...

Building the Core Cognitive Skills to Overcome Dyslexia

Although dyslexia is called a learning disability, it does not mean that one is unable to learn. Instead, dyslexia is a learning difference that often requires multisensory instruction as well as c...

Quick Individualized Solutions for Struggling and Dyslexic Readers

There is no single reading program or method that will address all the needs of struggling readers, because each learner has his or her own unique strengths and weaknesses. In fact, there are many ...

Dyslexia Help: Reversing Reversals Beginners - New Publication and Free Samples

I'm so excited to tell you about my Reversing Reversals Beginners publication. This digital workbook is the fourth publication in my popular Reversing Reversals Series.  Why Did I Create Reversing...

Educational Therapy Courses for Coaches and Educators

Come learn about Dr. Warren's educational therapy courses for coaches and teachers.

Free Following Directions Sample Activities

Strengthening Direction-Following Skills in Young Learners Many young learners struggle with the complexities of linguistic cues, and following both written and oral directions can be a real cha...

Best Text-to-Speech App for Neurodiverse Learners: Unlock Speechify Discount

For many in the neurodiverse community, traditional reading and learning methods can be difficult. Whether it's dyslexia, reading comprehension issues, or challenges with focus and attention (such ...

Kinesthetic Reading Remediation

Many students struggle with reading, and when decoding and comprehension don’t come easily, the learning process can quickly become frustrating and discouraging. Traditional methods that rely...

Letter Reversals - 11 Free Fun Activities for Dyslexics

Almost all elementary students experience some letter, number, and word reversals, but for some, it is a pervasive problem.  Many of these students have symptoms of dyslexia or visual processin...

How to Develop Reading Stamina for Struggling Readers

Discover key strategies to boost reading stamina in children with our blog post. Ideal for teachers and parents looking to make reading enjoyable for young learners.

Reaching All Types of Learners With Multisensory Teaching

One of the most common issues teachers struggle with is how to accommodate the multiple intelligences and diverse learning needs of their students. With as many as 12 different ways of processin...

Following Directions - How to Easily Teach Struggling Students

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 foc...

Remediating Reading Reversals, Tracking Difficulties and Visual Discrimination Weaknesses

Remediating reading reversals can be a difficult task. Not anymore! Good Sensory Learning now has many multi-sensory, digital workbooks that can make the process both simple and enjoyable.    The ...

Reasons Some Struggling Students Should Stop Taking Notes

For some students, the act of writing notes can help to encode classroom lessons, but for others, it can present an obstacle that prevents them from learning the content in the moment.  What shoul...

Comprehensive Remediation for Students with Dyslexia

Dyslexia is consistently found to be associated with academic difficulties. As a result, many of these learners require additional help at school or in their community from a qualified professiona...

Do Learning Styles Exist?

I think everyone will agree that no two people have the same strengths and weaknesses. But because we cannot observe each student’s brain behavior, it’s easy to blindly assume that what helps us l...

Exposing Students to the 12 Ways of Learning

Many know of the four common ways of learning: visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic. But did you know that students need to be exposed to even more ways of processing information, too? Going...

5 Reasons Why Dyslexics Should Avoid a Foreign Language

Foreign language courses are mandatory for graduation in many high schools and colleges; however, for some students with language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia, this requirement ma...

Help for Struggling Readers: Make Learning Fun and Memorable

Many students struggle with the underlying cognitive skills that make reading both enjoyable and efficient. When areas such as visualization, tracking, visual and auditory processing, or memory are...

Did You Know Reading Skills Can Be Improved by Singing Songs?

I am so pleased to feature this insightful and informative blog by early literacy and reading specialist, Nancy Platt!  Nancy worked as a children's librarian for 15 years at the Ferguson Library i...

12 Memory Strategies That Maximize Learning

Most students have had the experience of knowing an answer, but they are unable to access the information in a stressful moment. This is a common difficulty when students are taking a test, as anxi...

Free Text to Speech Software Can Help Students Edit Papers

🗣️ Why Every Student Should Use Text-to-Speech for Writing and Editing Text-to-speech (TTS) software is no longer just an accessibility feature — it’s a powerful learning and editing tool for st...

What is Brain Training or Brain Fitness and is it Helpful?

Brain Training or Brain Fitness is the act of strengthening deficits in learning or weak areas of cognition. This is typically done using simple activities that concentrate on areas of difficulty....

Dyslexia Cognitive Remedial Therapy Defined and Tools for Success

Have you heard that the brain is plastic? Brain plasticity, or neuroplasticity, is the brain’s ability to reorganize, change, and grow new neural pathways throughout the lifespan. But did you know...

More Games that Benefit the Brain: A Review

If you have been reading my blogs, you know I'm a big fan of bringing the fun factor into learning. In fact, did you know that many games can improve cognitive functioning?   Some Games Exercise an...

How to Help Students Remember Math Steps: Fun Strategies for Long Division

Many students struggle with the steps required to complete mathematical problems. They may forget the concept, miss a step, mis-sequence the steps, misread a sign, or struggle with writing out or...

Multisensory Teaching Accommodates the 12 Ways of Learning

To be a true multisensory teacher, it is important to be aware of all 12 Ways of Learning.  It merges the theories of cognitive styles, multiple intelligences, information processing, and multisens...

Fun, Following Directions Thanksgiving Activities

This colorful Thanksgiving digital download (PDF) offers engaging, printable activities that build essential language processing skills while keeping students excited about learning. It's part o...

Popular Following Directions Worksheets are Fun and Effective

Learning to follow directions is a critical skill for young children. Whether they are complying with a parent's directives, teachers' written instructions, or following oral commands from a coach ...

Episode 41: Exploring Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Kinesthetic Ways of Processing

In this episode of The Personal Brain Trainer Podcast, Erica and Darius guide us through the dynamic world of visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic processing. As we navigate our everyday live...

Episode 20: What is Auditory Processing? - The Executive Function Brain Trainer Podcast

In this episode, Erica and Darius explore auditory processing—how the brain interprets sound—and why it plays a major role in executive functioning, especially working memory, inhibitory control, a...