Learning disabilities cover a wide spectrum of problems so
it is best to describe your child. Some people think it is
caused by too much sugar or other food additives. Some think it
is caused by various types of brain damage such as lack of oxygen
at birth or from accidents. Whatever the cause we have a proven
record of being able to help even the most difficult of cases.
If you believe in Ritalin please don't come to us. Our goal
is to effect cures without drugs and it works regardless of what
other experts may say. With our system you can see results right
away, usually in less than five to fifteen days and sometimes in
a matter of hours. The Tooties system is very powerful. Be sure
to read some of our case histories.
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It's normal for puppies, other animals and children to be
active. Rather than suppressing that energy with Ritalin or
other drugs we feel it is better to teach the puppy or child when
to restrain themselves and when to feel free to frolic around.
All animals develop best when allowed to move and this includes
children. Children were not designed to sit at a desk and
concentrate on reading or math, etc. What we do is burn up that
energy quickly with Tootie games that are lots of fun and include
reading and math, etc. especially thinking at the same time. We
teach self-control so the parent or teacher doesn't have to
control the child. Parents are delighted at how quickly we can
solve this problem. Be sure to read the case of
Malin in Sweden.
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This stands for Attention Deficit Syndrome
which in later
years was called a disease in order to get insurance companies to
pay for treatment and drugs. Thus the name was changed to ADD or
Attention Deficit Disease. We don't believe it is a disease and
even if it is we can cure almost any case very quickly despite
what other experts may say. The secret is to know "how" and that
is our area of expertise.
These children are highly distractible
and can't seem to
focus on anything more than a few minutes so are very difficult
to teach. Once we teach them to concentrate and increase their
attention span dramatically they are fun to teach. Unfortunately
many universities that teach elementary education teachers pass
on the false notion that it is normal for young children to have
attention spans of only a few minutes. We know why their
attention spans are so short but prefer to keep the secret
and use it to improve our students. Imagine taking almost any
one of those "impossible cases" and increasing their attention
span to several hours. It's easy for us. When we say "easy"
we mean that we
know how to do it even tho it is very hard work.
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Dyslexia shows up as a variety of symptoms such as letter
and number reversals and an inability to read or learn well. Dr.
Jerry Getman, OD Phd. wrote a book on how to improve such students.
He classifies them as bright in everything except school.
Dr. Hanson agrees with Dr. Getman in that almost all of the cases
can be cured or at least substantially improved at any age.
Some so called experts think that it is impossible to cure
dyslexia or learning disabilities so naturally they don't get
good results. The same applies to people who think dyslexia,
etc. is genetic because they have it, their father had it and so
do their kids. This is a defeatist attitude and is unlikely to
produce a cure which we think is entirely possible because we
have done it with the most impossible of cases. Read some of the
case histories.
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This stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disease which
we don't think is a disease at all and easily curable with our
QET methods (Quick Effective Therapy). See ADDs above. When
doctors can't seem to help there is a tendency to call the problem a disease
which is better for insurance purposes and lets the
doctor off the hook when he says it is incurable.
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Brain damage can be real such as in accidents or lack of
oxygen at birth or can be imagined when doctors can't seem to
help someone. Read No. 9 in "Cases"
about a girl of 19 in Sweden
who was diagnosed as brain damaged at age 10 and driving her
mother crazy. Her mother is an accomplished teacher of kids with
problems but no one was able to cure her daughter until we came
along. It took us about three weeks to solve the problems and we
could find no evidence of brain damage. She turned out to be
absolutely brilliant and delightful and went on to medical
school.
When the brain damage is actual we have developed techniques
using trial and error to open up new neural pathways to overcome
the damage as much as possible. It is very hard work but the
results can be very gratifying. We have many such cases. Be
sure to read No.
11,
12,
14,
16, and
18 among others. No matter
how hopeless the case may seem there is always the chance we can
make some improvements. We hardly ever give up. On the other
hand we will be honest with you if we think the case is really
hopeless. People tend to come to us after they have tried every thing else.
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Reading problems have many different causes and can result
in severe learning problems and even drop outs. Even the brightest kids can have reading problems. Dr. Hanson used to love to
read adventure books when he was in elementary school even tho he
was very slow. Seventh grade turned him off as he had to read
uninteresting books such as American history or Shakespeare.
Imagine being forced to read books you don't like and then having
to do a book report. This is a problem caused by teachers and
the universities who taught them. Parents are at their mercy
unless they take action. Visit almost any university and nearby
you will find a place that sells comic books because otherwise
the students wouldn't read at all. Look at how many graduate
from college and can barely read. Dr. Hanson was embarrassed at
how slow he was in reading and had to stay studying while other
kids were out having at good time at the university. So he
decided to learn speed reading and went on to develop his own
system which is now the best in the world for teaching
professionals who must understand what they read.
The first step in solving a reading problem should be to
have a vision exam by a qualified behavioral optometrist. See
section on Vision. The next step would be to hear the student
read out loud a relatively simple book of his or her choosing.
Then see how well they know the alphabet. The Tooties approach
to many of these problems is to do it indirectly. Thus if a
child comes in with reading problems we teach him math or science
and vice versa. We try to pick something they like and make it
much better while at the same time indirectly improve the problem
they came in for. Done skillfully it produces amazing and quick
results.
If we were to focus on reading because that was their problem they would tend to be sensitive on that issue. So we would
pick something they like and are good at but do it in such a way
as to involve reading. When students have a math problem we
usually do experiments in electronics which are lots of fun and
soon the math comes into play. Remember always that one of the
Tooties secrets is not what you do but how you do it and that
usually requires lots of skill and experience.
In summary, almost any reading problem can be solved at any
age with the Tooties system. Come to us and solve the problem
quickly or try everybody else first.
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Failure to talk among young developing children is fairly
common and relatively easy to solve. When we say easy that means
we know what to do even tho it may involve lots of hard work. Of
course check with a medical doctor to be sure the voice box is
normal. Does the child make any sounds? We have many cases
considered hopeless by many experts and we were able to solve the
problem in just a few days or sometimes even hours. Read the
case history of Alex in Vienna, Austria as well as the case of a
man of 27 who had been in an institution for 20 years.
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Parenting is a very difficult skill because every child is
different and none come with an owner's manual. Even worse, by
the time you learn how to control a three year old they are now
four and you have to start all over. Dr. Hanson likes to take
young mothers to visit a mother dog with puppies. Imagine, the
dog has eight at a time and all are under control. The dog has
no playpen or crib, yet they have been given limits which they do
not exceed. The mother dog gives them lots of freedom to develop
but still has all of them under control. Human mothers usually
only have one at a time and are not nearly as calm as the mother
dog. Why don't we learn more from animals. Dr. Hanson grew up
in the jungle observing many animals, including monkeys and
learned a lot about parenting.
There are some good books out there but even the good ones
have parts you should not follow. There are also lots of terrible books so you need to learn to discriminate. Many are written
by academics who spout off their theories and know relatively
little about real children. Among the worse places to get advice
is from your pediatrician. Unfortunately many mothers do exactly
that. His specialty is diseases so he know hardly anything about
normal healthy children even if he has some of his own. Naturally
he is not about to admit he knows almost nothing about healthy
children. Dr. Hanson believes the best person to ask is a teacher
who has had several of her own children and even there you
need to ask several and compare.
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The field of psychology is very useful but the very process
of educating a psychologist also contaminates him or her with
current beliefs and practices.
Our QET (Quick Effective Therapy) techniques take all these
factors into consideration. In addition, we make a visit to the
person's home to meet their family, friends and pets to see what
their environment is really like and not just what they say. We
aren't any smarter than other professionals. We just take a
different approach, have lots of experience and skills the others
don't have and usually get fantastic results quickly. Even as
nice as you might be we don't want to be part of your life forever.
Our goal is to make you independent as soon as possible.
We have many others who need and want help.
If you wish, fill out the questionaire and write a couple of
pages about yourself or your child and send to us. Please include pictures. Snail mail is fine but include your e-mail so we
can respond quickly and follow with snail mail of literature
related to your interest.
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