Take the Guesswork Out of Learning Difficulties
Engaging Each Child’s Natural Processing Style
Each child is a natural born learner - their OptiKode Learning Style reveals their dominant processing styles as well their 2 dormant ones. The traditional sit, look and listen method in classrooms simply doesn’t reach up to 40% of students. Instead, the answer is to unlock a learner’s 3 dominant processing pathways and to also channel their KINETIC ENERGY into learning. At OptiKodes Academy, we specialize in supporting. each child’s authentic ‘Learning Language’ as shown in their OptiKode and creating a new love of learning with it.
Whether you come for a one time OptiKode Learning Style evaluation to discover your child’s learning language, or bring them for weekly one-on-one sessions, you will be joining the hundreds of families in Contra Costa and Solano County who have gotten the breakthroughs they’ve been looking for with OptiKodes Academy.
Created during the early months of the pandemic; this video will show you how to set up a kinetic learning space at home. Now more than ever, kids need less screen time and more movement to stay regulated and successful with school and learning.
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What is an OptiKode?
The Five Learning Pathways are:
Seeing Dominant - Being SIGHT SMART: learning through images, visual processing, graphics and design
Hearing Dominant - Being SOUND SMART: learning through hearing, verbal processing, music and dialogue
Moving Dominant - Being BODY SMART: learning through hands-on, physical experience
Reading Dominant - Being BOOK SMART: learning through reading, writing and linguistic experience
Thinking Dominant - Being NUMBER SMART: learning through analytical, mathematical, and systematic thought
The Dormant and Dominant Part of Each OptiKode Learning Style:
Each person processes in a one-of-a-kind way and each one of our OptiKodes our 3 dominant pathways and our 2 dormant ones. THE KEY IS THIS: when we consistently play to a students strengths - his or her dominant pathways - they become natural born learners. We unlock their learning language and use it to learn the way they are naturally designed to do, not the way that is ‘pre-set’ for students in school.
OPTIKODE ACADEMY BLOG POSTS
In an attempt to demystify the ADHD assessment process for parents, I am sharing my initial assessment write-up which happened in April 2020 and the feedback I just received from this student’s family ten months later. It’s heartening to see they’ve made headway; my write up and the families detailed feedback may help other families successfully navigate the process.
School Trauma is a hidden epidemic that causes symptoms of anxiety, depression, and anger in up to 30% of all students. Clinical Psychotherapists and even medical doctors can fail to see the connection between school difficulties and psychological symptoms. This article describes how to think through who to call to help with school trauma - a Learning Specialist or a Psychotherapist. Often it is the former.
Part 3 Follows an incoming 2nd grade student as he gets academic support over the summer. How is tutoring different from working with a Learning Specialist. This blog is meant to reveal the difference.
Part 2 Describes the first private session of 2nd grade student as he gets academic support over the summer. How is tutoring different from working with a Learning Specialist.? This blog is meant to reveal the difference.
Some children will do anything to avoid reading. Your child’s OptiKode Learning Style provides clues to what genres will get more reading out of them. Transform your child from being a picky reader to being a regular reader.
OptiKodes Learning Styles is a more actionable and interactive learning style theory. Ready to learn how to create learning breakthroughs for your struggling child?
Emotional regulation is a necessity if your child is going to thrive in school and in the world. Nontraditional learners are at a very high risk of becoming dysregulated with standardized teaching methods.
The struggle of nontraditional learners almost always follows them into adulthood. Theirs is a hidden and painful world of low self-esteem and worry in the workplace and in their personal lives.
Are you worried sports are interfering with your child’s school success? Depending on their OptiKode Learning Style, eliminating them will make matters worse.
How can a Learning Specialist like me create learning breakthroughs in 4-6 weeks? This is the first of 5 blogs which will show exactly how this happens, how a child moves from feeling depressed and hopeless to full of confidence and motivation very rapidly.