Wiki-technology has served my work with LD learners well. The ability to collaborate with tutors on teaching assignments in “real” time has benefitted my clients in ways not possible, say, a few years ago.

Let me explain:
Our comprehensive learning management service for parents of LD learners involves my managing a team of tutors. I recruit and train high caliber individuals to serve as “tutor-mentors” for my client’s children. And I am using the word “tutor” in the classical sense here because the duty of the tutors is to cultivate minds and instill a love for learning.

The tutors I select for the clients have to have a heart for LD learners, and the flexibility and creativity to customize instruction to individual student’s needs. Our clients’ LD children deserve to have the very best to work with them. Often struggling learners are undervalued by conventional academic measures and they need to be “awaken” by master-tutors who can breathe life into their learning.

Most parents of LD children will tell you that, in addition to academic problems, low self-esteem and repeated failures can create behavioral/emotional problems in these children. The ability to be a few steps ahead of these troubled learners who are trying to challenge their tutors is crucial. My effectiveness depends on my ability to trouble shoot — that is, avoid learning and behavior problems before they happen – and provide timely advice for the tutors so they can be at their best in teaching and mentoring the learners in their care. After each lesson, the tutors enter detailed comments for me. Thanks to wiki-technology, I am able to respond instantaneously to the tutor’s comments most of the time or, at least, within a twenty-four hour time frame.

For parents taking the “inclusion” route – that is, opting to have their LD children stay in a regular school setting – they have to make sure that there is an infrastructure available to support their children. Our comprehensive learning management service does precisely that. Of course, we also work very closely with the school personnel to make sure there is not gap in the service delivery. It is a team effort and a very intentional one!

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