Meet our five-day
programs
Program #1: Reading Correction
At Mind Orientation we’re defying dyslexia – one page at a time.
Our three-phase plan to
revolutionary reading
What is
Orientation?
Through focusing and mental techniques, students with dyslexia learn to recognize and control the mental state that leads to distorted and confused perceptions of letters, words, and numerals. Once the thought processes that cause misperceptions are turned off, their minds are restored to a relaxed and focused state imperative for reading and conceptual skill-building.
How does
it help?
Dyslexics are primarily picture-thinkers; they generally think using mental or sensory imagery, rather than words, sentences, or internal dialogue. Words are enormously difficult for them to process because letters are not three-dimensional objects, but rather symbols. In their effort to comprehend symbols, students will then attempt to mentally turn words around — and face disorientation headlong. When a student learns to turn off the disorientations at the moment they occur and identify and overcome the stimuli that triggered the disorientation, the reading, writing, and spelling confusion they experienced completely disappears.
What is
Symbolic Mastery?
In this phase, our students master the ability to think with symbols and words, so they can learn to decode accurately and read for meaning. Using three-dimensional materials like clay, students model the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks. Students will also model trigger words – the short abstract words frequently encountered in reading such as ‘and’, ‘the’, ‘to’, or ‘it’ — and create an arsenal of sight words. This step ensures that they have an accurate perception and understanding of these symbols.
How does
it help?
As they read, students with dyslexia use the visual mind to imagine a word and its associated meaning. This is fairly simple when the word has a picture like “tree” or ‘house’, but becomes problematic with words like ‘is’, ‘what’, or ‘was’ — words that make up about 75% of our language. Without those words to fill in the gap, comprehension becomes incredibly difficult for visual learners. When the student models an object accurately representing the word’s meaning with clay, he engages the creative process and establishes a lasting mental image of that specific word and series of letters. It produces comprehension and long-term retention of the spelling and meaning of a word without the need for phonetic decoding or memorization. It stops the word from causing any future disorientations.
What are
Reading Strategies?
Using exercises like Spell-Reading, Sweep-Sweep-Spell, and Picture-at-Punctuation, our students master decoding, increase fluency, and improve comprehension. These exercises allow them to use their natural visual strengths to quickly and comfortably track, decode, and understand text.
How does
it help?
Children with dyslexia don’t naturally focus on one letter at a time, sound out words letter by letter, or even track the letters of a word from left to right. As picture thinkers, they intuitively process all the letters at once. Their struggle to sound out written words leaves them unable to comprehend written material and usually necessitates rereading the same text numerous times — often at the cost of severe headaches. When students utilize reading exercises, they build awareness of letter sequence, whole word recognition, and sentence comprehension, finally generating genuine, functional reading.
Program #2: math mastery
Mind Orientation’s approach to learning math allows your child to finally make that quantum leap to success.
Here’s how we teach them to
calculate with confidence
After determining the best tools suited to your child’s learning style and needs, the facilitator will coach him in a variety of focusing techniques to improve focus, relaxation, balance, self-regulation, and coordination. Some of our exercises include Release, Auditory Orientation, Fine-tuning, and Energy-dial.
Like the reading program, the first step in math mastery enables students with dyscalculia to control disorientation. Once students have an improved ability to regulate attention focus and correct perceptual distortions, they can move on to the next step and resolve any confusion about math with methods that build upon their creative and imaginative strengths.
The facilitator will then introduce Alphabet Mastery and Symbol Mastery, a breakdown of basic mathematical symbols (if not already completed in the prior reading program). Using three-dimensional materials like clay, students model the alphabet, numerals, and operation symbols. This includes practice on Story-Problem Trigger words (small words such as “by” or “from” which have separate meanings when used to describe math problems) and 21 Math Trigger words.
This step ensures that they have an accurate perception and understanding of these symbols and can use them to apply procedure in math examples.
This step includes an in-depth overview of the foundational concepts underlying all mathematics: Self, Change, Cause-Effect, Before-After, Consequence, Time, Sequence, and Order vs. Disorder. This critical piece of the program facilitates comprehension of story problems typical of verbal mathematical units.
These are twelve exercises that span computation skills from addition to division with three-place numbers and decimals. Our method quickly leads to competency in foundational mathematics.
Students will gain foundational skills that will give them a leg up as educated consumers and independent adults. These life-long skills include: telling time and time management and household money skills.
Program #3: Attention Mastery®
At Mind Orientation, our students learn the life hacks for ADHD-proof productivity.
Beyond distractions: Our proven
approach to conquering internal chaos
Children who are labeled or diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD or ADHD) tend to be highly imaginative and creative thinkers. Often they have difficulty harnessing their ideas and translating thought into action. They know what they want to accomplish, but struggle when it comes to completing tasks and establishing organization in their lives.
Attention Mastery systematically models and guides understanding of life concepts such as consequence, order, and responsibility. Students gain effective tools to address attention, behavioral, or organizational difficulties and develop personal insight and understanding into their self-created barriers.
Through working one-on-one with a facilitator and learning techniques like Orientation, Dial Setting, and Release, children learn to:
Develop
self-awareness
Manage time, stress, and emotional triggers
Recognize and clear distorted perceptions
Use simple mental tools to focus, relax, and control and monitor energy levels
Master and internalize concepts that will help them with social interactions and attention issues such as self, change, consequence, before/after, cause/effect, time, sequence, and order/disorder
Apply these concepts in real-life situations
learning that
lasts a lifetime
