Making learning easier- making life easier.

Effective approaches for

Dyslexia and Dyspraxia using

HYPNOSIS, NLP & Life Coaching

If you've a child with these learning issues you'll know how hard it can be on both of you; and the relief that comes from having a sense of things improving.

Over the last few decades we've been involved in discovering new perspectives and approaches to effectively helping children with dyslexia and dyspraxia to learn easily.

The culmination of these research projects has produced an individually tailored program to assist those diagnosed with dyspraxia and dyslexia (or as they are sometimes labeled 'dyslexics' and 'dyspraxics') to rediscover their learning potential, and make learning and schooling much, much easier.

Spelling issues

"When I went to school I could never understand how creative writing and drawing were highly valued, whilst creative spelling was not!" Robert Dilts, NLP researcher, trainer, author and former dyslexic.

NLP is about the study of excellence. It's concerned with understanding

• HOW someone who excels at one particular activity well enough
• to be able to teach it to someone else who'd like to develop their skills in that area too.

But, often if you ask someone who's great at something HOW they do it, they won't really be able to tell you much that will help you emulate their excellence- the core skills of NLP allow you to get the details of what makes them excellent.

Ever tried asking a good speller how they spell? They don't know how, they just do...

We've worked with enough great and poor spellers to know what is the difference. Good spelling is not a gift or inborn talent; nor is poor spelling.

Good spelling is simply the result of having a consistent recall of what the agreed order of the letters is for one particular word.

There is a consistent strategy that all good spellers we've ever seen use that makes them spell well. There is also a consistent strategy that all poor spellers use.

Teaching anyone this strategy will make them good spellers (here's a report of just one case we've worked with)..there was a time when skiing was thought to be an innate talent; a talent that just happened to be found in a series of particularly fortunate families. Rather oddly these families all lived in villages near snowy mountains with perfect skiing slopes. It took many years to dispel the myth that skiing was an inborn talent, because;

there was so much apparent evidence for the fact that you either could ski or not

it wasn't worth teaching you to ski if you couldn't, because, since it was a talent rather than a learnt behaviour you'd never be able to learn it anyway

even if anyone thought it could be taught, the skiers couldn't describe it in good enough detail for anyone else to be able to learn

Now, of course, we know this is nonsense, but it took a number of decades for this opinion to change- we think it's time for a change in how people view spelling.

The cycle of failure.

Once a child begins to believe they are less able than other children (and children can pick up on this very quickly without being directly told it) their self confidence in their abilities wilts.

They begin to approach new educationally based tasks with dread and with a certain knowledge that it will be hard, difficult or impossible.

Starting from this perspective makes it really difficult to find it easy!

Soon they get used to the world of education being a nightmare, they can begin to get a reputation as 'learning disabled', staff can begin to treat them differently and have lower expectations of them- but most importantly they begin to treat themselves differently and have lower expectations of themselves.

Some times it can get so bad that the child has a response to school work that's just like a phobia- fearful and unresourceful.

Our approach

Our program addresses these key issues

1)updating ineffective learning strategies that the child has developed.

2)rebuilding self confidence and belief in abilities

3)resolving the fear and aversion for school work/school/teachers/books/spelling that they've developed

Here's a typical report of how effective our approach is.

We also work with adults. Here's a typical report of our work with adults.

Our Team

read about our success stories with learning issues like dyslexia

a 10 yr old's story

an adult's story