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Learning With a Divergent Mind

Brain Gym®101 Course

Experience whole-brain integration through whole-body movement. Learn the 26 Brain Gym® activities, Edu-K’s Five Steps to Easy Learning, and Dennison Laterality Repatterning as you discover an exciting tool for reaching personal goals. What this course teaches can be applied by Read more…


Upcoming Brain Gym® 101 Course


BG104: The 26 Movements Upcoming Course

Join me to learn about and experience the core 26 Brain Gym movements, along with the philosophy behind Brain Gym, and how to use it to support your daily life. Classes will be on zoom. Email Sonya directly if you Read more…


Upcoming Brain Gym® Course

I am a licensed Brain Gym® Instructor and am offering the BG104 course starting at the end of January.  This 16 hour course for adults is a detailed study of the 26 foundational Brain Gym® movements, and the principles behind Read more…


Encourage! Encourage! Encourage!

Everyone needs encouragement from time to time, no exceptions. Students who struggle with dyslexia, or any other learning challenge, need a lot more encouragement than a child without a learning challenge. Why is this? I see two main reasons: 1) Read more…


Nothing is Permanent Except Change

The real world of dyslexia is to continually be adapting and adjusting to new skills, new challenges, different teachers and learning environments, finding new ways to leverage your strengths, and new ways to overcome or accommodate your difficulties. There is Read more…


Online Classes: Help for Struggling Readers

I’m offering a series of online classes for parents and teachers in April on Zoom. Does your child struggle to sound out words?Do they find reading tiring? Boring? Frustrating? Slow?Do they have difficulty recognizing a word from one page to Read more…


Persevere: Good Days and Bad

We all have days when things go really smoothly for no apparent reason, and other days when nothing seems to work, again for no apparent reason. Dyslexia is no different. Some days are golden . . . words come easily, Read more…


Get the Right Kind of Support

Getting help is the step we all want to immediately jump into when we find that our child is struggling. We want to fix it. Do something. We are all instinctive problem solvers, particularly when it comes to our kids Read more…


Goals: Essential Roadmap

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Before you start deciding on tutors, educational therapy, software programs, etc. to support your struggling reader, you need to think about what your goals are for them, and what their goals are for themselves. The younger the child the more Read more…