May June Newsletter - Welcome to my new Website
Hard to believe that we are in into Term 2 already!! By now most of you should have had some feedback from your child’s teacher on how they are coping with their demands of learning in our ever growing classroom environments.
For many children they really struggle to concentrate when there are competing sounds and distractions around them. Most of these children are very intelligent individuals who have an exciting future ahead of them. It is quite often their immature Auditory Processing skills that make learning so challenging.
For as little a s$75 we can tell you where your child’s Auditory Processing development is, phone 8210 9477
Rebecca Waters is an Occupational Therapist in W.A. who completed her TLP Training back in 2006. Rebecca has since been providing TLP to compliment her OT work . Below is a stunning testimonial that is a credit to Rebecca and demonstrates what a wonderful therapist she is.………..
Our daughter is now approaching the age of 10 and is in Year 5 at school, she was first identified with learning difficulties in Pre-Primary. After moving to the area it was not until last year with the recommendation from the local school to have her assessed by Rebecca Waters of Function First that we hit the jackpot with both Rebecca's individual programs and the use of The Listening Program.
Now in the past in association with School Psychologists and assessments our daughter has been to Optometrists for visual assessment and completed a Visual Therapy program involving $,weekly visits and daily at home activities this along with extra school activities within school and at home.
Along with the emotional side of it all the past years have been hard and frustrating for my daughter as with all the effort there was little or no improvement, reading, writing, math's all of the basic necessities. It seemed the last resort for some was to assume she was A.D.D, all this naturally also took a toll on us, the parents looking for assistance and seeing our daughter with high social skills, common sense and in all a normal little girl but "When would the penny drop, what will make the penny drop, what is the missing link,?." We knew her concentration was not the best and there was a problem also with simple instruction, "pack your lunch box into your bag, grab your jumper and hop in the car", without fail every day the jumper or the lunch box would be forgotten.
Our daughter has now completed a simple assessment with Rebecca and we have also invested in purchasing The Listening Program of course at an expense but this is easily one of the best investments we have ever made. The combination of these programs has changed our lives. 20 weeks, little effort, Great Success.
Rebecca's Occupational Therapy program was brilliant and an eye opener I left in tears after our first session knowing that at last this was it we have found the problem and the person to fix it.
We attended Rebecca's office fortnightly however our daughter's desire was to go everyday that in its self giving praise to a wonderful Therapist and program, we had some home activities mainly games stimulating thinking, memory, visual skills. We all enjoyed family time after dinner playing the games.
The Listening Program, this is a daily 30 minute program, broken up into two
15 minute time slots involving sitting with headphones on listening to music, that's it. Not so hard, I found it easy for our lifestyle to do it first thing in the morning as she was waking but still in bed and then last thing at night when in bed, Monday to Friday with weekends off.
We opted for the Bone Conduction Unit to hasten the process. Improvement was not immediate but not without delay and I cannot believe the truly amazing difference in writing, general understanding of concepts which has greatly improved Math's, reading and the following of day to day general instruction. Our daughter is more confident than ever and is now rapidly closing the gap on years of past education. The penny has dropped, Thank You Rebecca
Now we have begun our second 20 week session after a break of 2 months and we are keen and ready to go with it.
I truly cannot recommend enough both Rebecca's professional services and The Listening Program, the cost of the programs does not measure up to the cost of your sanity and your child's well being and development.
Don't hesitate just do it!
Jill Pember, Secret Harbour WA.,
