Background

Kathy Johnson has been working with children who struggle in school since 1999. Her consulting and tutoring practice helps children with learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, and other problems. She has been trained in Sanomas Listening Program, Therapeutic Listening, Primitive Reflex/neuro-development Training, PACE, Brain Gym, and Phono-Graphix Reading Method. Her research has brought her to consider the whole child when screening children to find the source of their struggles, including nutrition, stress, motor problems, vision and auditory issues, and cognitive problems. She has helped countless children over the years.

See below several presentations designed for Parents or Professionals

Call to set up a Presentation or Workshop at your school or business at 518-885-2007

School-Based Brain Development Seminar: One Day

This seminar, designed for a school, will have whole teams working together for the benefit of the development of the child. Simple exercises and strategies are reviewed that can be implemented school-wide to benefit all children, yet most especially the Learning Disabled child. Actual training is given that can be implemented the next day on integrating primitive reflexes for neurodevelopment, nutritional and exercise strategies, screenings and exercises for vision development, strategies for developing improved auditory processing, and cognitive skills training, such as memory, processing speed, attention, and reading skills.

Interested in setting up an in-service for your school or clinic? Download the In Service Flyer  for more information.

School-Based Brain Development Seminar, Neurodevelopment: Half Day

This 3 hour course includes actual training of integrating the primitive reflexes in the classroom for neurodevelopment. Learn simple exercises for opening cognitive pathways to areas of the brain to develop skills such as math sense, anxiety reduction, sequencing, understanding time, memory, concentration, improved auditory processing and vision development.

School-Based Brain Development Seminar, Cognitive Training: Half Day

This 3 hour course concentrates on developing a cognitive training system for the classroom which improves the underlying skills necessary for successful academic achievement. Games and drills will be presented and practiced that work on the following cognitive skills: visual and auditory memory, attention, processing speed, logic and reasoning, reading skills, and vision development.

Brain Development Fixes – A presentation for PTAs and Libraries

In this hour and a half presentation, Kathy Johnson goes through the building blocks from the Pyramid of Potential, spending time explaining why brain and body health, neurodevelopment, auditory and visual processing, and cognitive development are all important in overcoming learning disabilities. There is no silver bullet; everyone is different. Accommodations are not helpful for the graduate, improving the brain is.

Parent-Teacher 101:
Lessons Learned While Moving From School Struggles to Success

By then end of this 1 ½ hour presentation, whether you are an educator, parent, or other professional, you will learn how academic and life success was achieved through a process which helped many children and young adults. You will leave with optimism and hope for every child who struggles.

The Many Causes of Reading Struggles
Not Your Typical Reading Workshop! Help your most difficult students!

This presentation includes the causes of dyslexia and other reading struggles. You know what works for most students. You use the highest recommended reading method. Yet there are still a few who just don’t “get it”. Hear the stories of how a 6th grader learned to read, even after twice retained; Of the boy, who after learning how to decode, but then couldn’t read more than a paragraph at a time, progressed and succeeded; Of a young girl in 4th grade, who had faked reading well enough to be in the average reading group, after 20 days read above grade level; Of a girl who raised her reading level by at least a grade immediately with one easy accommodation. This workshop is perfect for adults, parents, teachers, and tutors.

Movie and Discussion
How Hard Can This Be?

During this amazing movie you feel what learning disabled children face every day in school and life. You may never have realized how it feels to be smart, but have vision or auditory issues until you experience this movie. This is perfect for parents, friends, and teachers of LD kids, as well as older LD kids and adults.