Dear Neurolinks, My son’s handwriting is illegible. His teacher constantly asks him to redo his work because she simply can’t read it. His words are spaced incorrectly and look like one long continuous word; words are all over the page instead of on the dotted lines provided, and many of them are backwards. He also

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Dear Neurolinks, My daughter has great difficulty with reading. It’s not that she stumbles over reading a paragraph; it’s that she stumbles over reading even the most basic words. The past five years she’s spent hours in therapy and tutoring sessions with little improvement – not to mention the thousands of dollars we’ve spent! I

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Dear Neurolinks, My son has just been diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder. The school recommended that I employ a tutor to teach him the classroom material one-on-one. I know my son is bright, there must be another route. I don’t want him to have to suffer through therapy and tutoring his whole life. How can

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Dear Neurolinks, I’m worried about my daughter who is in 12th grade. She is always getting distracted and never seems to finish a task. She constantly needs to be reminded to do things even when they are things she does on a daily basis. Every night I have to remind her that it’s her job

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Dear Neurolinks, I know my son is smart and intelligent – he loves discussing politics with his father and is up-to-date with world news – but it doesn’t seem to extend to the classroom. He’s a disaster at school! His memory is so poor he can never remember what his Rebbe is teaching; and his

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