The principal of C.L. Milton Elementary School in Laredo, Texas has just announced the results of a study that shows astonishing progress in students’ reading and reading test scores.
This is the nations largest pilot study of its kind. The study followed children performing daily balance and sensory activities with The Learning Breakthrough Program. After only four months of twice daily program use, eighty-three 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students, all with Dyslexia, ADD/ADHD and other Non-Specific Learning Disabilities had, on average, a 75% greater amount of reading progress as compared to a control group of non-learning disabled students from the same grades who did not participate in the program.
According to the school principal, learning-disabled children typically progress in reading ability only 25% to 50% as much as non-learning disabled students over the same period of time. Before and after testing revealing this 75% improvement, with everything else being equal, demonstrates extraordinary progress in students regularly performing Learning Breakthrough activities. This also illustrates a narrowing of the gap, which usually widens, between learning disabled and non-learning disabled students.
The Learning Breakthrough Program is a balance and sensory activity program designed to help better organize brain processing in order to improve a child’s overall functioning in areas of learning such as reading, writing, comprehension and focus. The program is suitable for those 7 years and older. Improvement becomes permanent after 9-12 months of use for fifteen minutes twice daily. Because The Learning Breakthrough Program strives to improve on a foundational level, it addresses a wide variety of issues.
The program can not only help struggling children catch up, but can also help gifted children excel. It enables parents and educators to address the roots of processing problems, rather than just the symptoms. It does not replace skills training or tutoring. Program use will make those efforts more effective. Balance, coordination and sporting ability also benefit. This program is designed to be easily used at home by parents, but can also be utilized in conjunction with school curriculum by educators around the world.
According to Dr. Irvine Mason, Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, “It is difficult for many to understand how a physical exercise program can improve reading, writing, comprehension and attention ability. My initial skepticism was replaced with excitement after a careful review of the program, research and user reports. With one in six school children diagnosed with a learning disability and probably an equal number that fall through the cracks, widespread use of a non-medical program such as this will have a significant impact on not only the children and families involved, but society as well.”
"As the parent of a child with dyslexia who was also identified as gifted and talented, I had looked at everything I could find,” says Mrs. Ratliff, principal, C.L. Milton Elementary School. “The balance and sensory exercises that are part of the Learning Breakthrough Program made sense to me. So much so, that I took a leap and integrated it into the school. Simultaneously, my 8-year-old son used the program at home each day. After 5 months of program use, his reading level jumped by 2 years. My goal was to guide other parents who I knew from experience were as frustrated and desperate as I was in trying to help their children succeed," adds Ratliff.