Nothing is more important to me than the health and well being of my children. A parents job is never done. Which is why I have constantly made changes and adjustments, researched and studied to find the best options and solutions. I sometimes wonder if I've made the right choice but each one has led me to another door. Ryan has been doing cognitive therapy since May for learning deficits. (Reading, writing) Before April I didn't know there was such a thing. He's also doing Vision Therapy which is a form of cognitive therapy. We have had a road block for so long now. Endless hours of extra work, practice, tutors, beating ourselves up against a wall when there is actually solutions out there. I just finished this book and some of it described so much of what I've been seeing for years. Things the mainstream schools don't have the ability to address or help with even with IEP's. If you know a kid or have one with symptoms of ADHD or dyslexia and or other learning problems; I suggest checking into cognitive therapy for learning deficits and or The Arrowsmith program. They are far and few but it's catching on. Neuroscience is amazing and making me rethink about my future career. I would love to make this available to more families and schools and more affordable too. Even for adults. I think we all have struggles in certain areas of our brain that with a little cognitive exercise or a lot in some cases, the brain can be trained, reconditioned, neurons fired up that have been left dormant. We are waiting to see if Ryan gets accepted into a private school that has this Arrowsmith program with its curriculum but it would be awesome to have it more available to everyone. Ryan loves math, science-right brain activities. He struggles with reading-writing-phonemic awareness and visual processing left-brain activities. He had some brain damage at birth and you really wouldn't know his struggles. He is a ray of sunshine and a typical pre-teen but struggles with certain areas. How blessed I have access to help him over come these. I just wish I knew of them sooner. I wish that when a teacher early on caught his reading alignment was off that there was more....