Step 1

Understand the three main reasons why children have difficulty learning:

A lack of or poor instruction. If some tutoring and additional homework does not quickly solve the problem, this is not the cause of your child's difficulties.

A lack of motivation. Motivation is seldom the reason for difficulty when a child first starts school, but with continual struggle and failure, most children lose their motivation and start to avoid hard tasks. This avoidance then adds to learning problems.

A lack of underlying learning skills. If learning problems cannot quickly be resolved with a little extra tutoring then usually there are deficiencies in the underlying learning skills required to make learning easy, efficient, and fast.

Step 2

What skills does your child need to learn easily?

Here is a model that shows you what happens during the act of learning. It will assist you in pinpointing the areas where your child's skills are weak: (Click image to enlarge)

If any one of these skills is not adequate, it can affect one or more academic areas, as well as the ease and speed of learning. In that way, learning skills are like the members of a team. If, for example, a team has a poor quarterback, it is extremely hard to effectively use an excellent receiver.

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