Find A Tutor Near You In Hinsdale

Dealing with a learning disability or ADHD can be a doozy, especially if it's a new diagnosis! Club Z! is here to help! First off though, it's important to know that learning disabilities (LDs) and ADHD have absolutely nothing to do with intelligence or IQ. They're just as common in highly intelligent people (even geniuses) as they are in people with average or below average intelligence.

So... if "learning disability" isn't just a nicer word for "unintelligent," then what is it? "A learning disability is nothing more than a different 'wiring' of the brain," explains our Club Z! spokesperson and Franchise Director Cari Diaz. While a learning disability can't be "cured" or "fixed," children given the right help can succeed and thrive in school. (Did you read that, parents? Feel free to clap and jump for joy!) Club Z! tutors are trained in current and effective techniques and can provide specialized after school tutoring in Hinsdale for students with learning disabilities. Diaz says, "By working with the [children's] differences instead of trying to teach against them, children with learning disabilities can be just as successful as their peers."

How to help ADHD or Learning Disabled (LD) Students?

If you're deciding how to help a child with ADHD or an LD, there are plenty of resources to tell you what to do for ADHD, LDs, etc., but even with resources, it's a very tough situation for a parent to navigate on his own. Managing an LD or ADHD requires much more time, attention, knowledge and experience with ADHD and LDs than most parents have. Busy parents know that are only so many hours in the day and there's only so much new information one person can learn about ADHD or LDs in a short time. Here are a few suggestions on how to help a child with ADHD or an LD and what kind of professional help to look for.

1. Realize that academic success, higher education and professional success are absolutely possible.

   When thinking about how to help a child with ADHD, always remember that high grades, higher education and a successful career are all very possible. This is not a pie in the sky dream. There are plenty of students with ADHD and learning disabilities who (with hard work and dedication) become incredibly high achievers in every area of life. At Club Z!, our goal in offering in-home tutoring students with ADHD and learning disabilities is to help them reach this point! We believe in our students and teach them to believe in themselves!

2. Have ADHD and LD testing done and find a tutor near you who's experienced with LDs. The earlier the intervention, the better.

1. Testing is the first step.

   Not all struggles in school are due to ADHD or learning disabilities. Before you start planning what to do for ADHD or LDs, make sure you or your child actually has been diagnosed. Clinical psychologist can administer full scale tests.

   These tests are long, but they're very thorough and can give you more insight into how your child's mind works than you ever imagined! These tests can also tell you how the diagnosis impacts learning and daily functioning. (You may have needs that you weren't aware of!) Once you find out what to do for ADHD or the learning disability that you or your child has, write down the psychologist's tips, insights and recommendations, and take them seriously.

   The insight from the psychologist can help parents decide exactly how to help a child with ADHD or an LD. They can help predict which subjects in school will be tough, so you'll know when to make more time in your schedule for after school tutoring. They can also help you plan future education, and help a child decide on possible college majors and even career choices when that time comes.

2. Find a tutor near you in Hinsdale who is experienced and comfortable tutoring students with ADHD or learning disabilities.

   Designing tutoring for students with learning disabilities and ADHD, and figuring out how to help ADHD and LD students is an art. Club Z! tutors have experience providing after school tutoring students with ADHD in Hinsdale and they have experience tutoring students with all types of learning disabilities! Club Z! tutors know how to motivate students and give them the tools they need to improve in school. The right tutor will understand how to customize in-home tutoring sessions to fit your child's disability.

3. If you're trying to find a tutor for your student with learning disabilities, make sure that all after school tutoring is done at home and on a schedule that fits the child's needs.

   When thinking about how to help a child with ADHD or an LD, parents know that frustration and attention span can be huge obstacles, especially after a long school day. Parents trying to figure out what to do for ADHD or LD children also know that a child's surroundings and level of alertness can make or break an after school tutoring session.

   That's why it's important that in-home tutoring for students with learning disabilities and ADHD is done on a flexible schedule (when the students are most alert), and in a comfortable place where distractions can be limited. That place is home sweet home! To accommodate these needs, Club Z! offers in-home tutoring on a highly flexible and customized schedule. Our goal is to always make tutoring students with ADHD and LDs a positive experience for students and parents!

3. Help beat the stigma! Even geniuses have learning disabilities!

   

   Did you know that even geniuses have learning disabilities? Yup, it's true! The sad thing is that there's a very strong negative stigma that associates learning disabilities and ADHD with a low IQ/low intelligence. While the stigma is completely false, it's still very harmful because it causes many students with ADHD and learning disabilities to think of themselves as "dumb" or as "destined to fail."

   This belief makes students more likely to fail...because it can cause frustration, anger and low self-esteem, and these feelings make students resistant to learning. Who knows how many gifted children, and even geniuses, with LDs have dropped out of school or decided not to attend college because they truly believe they're not smart?! What a scary thought! Tutoring students with ADHD and LDs taught us something important: A key step in understanding how to help ADHD and LD students is to take this stigma very seriously, to realize the impact it can have on their learning and to help beat the stigma.

   Beating the stigma starts with the students first, then their families, and then with specialized after school tutoring for Hinsdale students with learning disabilities.

   How to help ADHD and LD children is to first make them understand that their intelligence is normal (or above normal, if it is). Make sure their siblings and other children close to them who know about their learning difficulties understand this too, especially if they're being teased.

   Then, find the right specialized after school tutoring for students with learning disabilities in Hinsdale. Don't just find a tutor for your child. Find the right tutor! right tutor will not think of your child as less able than non-LD students. The right tutor will understand that your child is smart enough to be a high achiever in school! At Club Z!, we're used to tutoring students with ADHD and LDs. We don't only provide top quality tutoring for students with learning disabilities and ADHD, but we also pride ourselves on motivating students, building their self-esteem and knowing how to help ADHD and LD students reach their full potential!

   

   How to help ADHD and Learning Disabled Children Understand That Their Disability Doesn't Mean They're "Dumb"

   If your child is having trouble understanding that her ADHD or LD is not related to intelligence, you may need to explain this in a way that she understands it more clearly. After tutoring plenty of LD students and tutoring students with ADHD in Hinsdale, we know that it can be challenging to explain this to younger children, especially.

   A good analogy to use is the example of two smart phones. Imagine that your child has an iPhone and she's only ever used an iPhone. Her friend has an Android (that has the same power, memory, and speed as her iPhone). When she tries to use the Android, it won't work as well as her iPhone. Why? It's because it's wired differently and she doesn't know how to use it or where to find the right buttons. It's not because the Android is a less capable or badly functioning phone. To make the Android work as well as the iPhone, all she has to do is learn which buttons to push and where to find them. Once she learns that, the Android will work great!

   Like the Android, her brain is wired differently. She's an Android going to a school where most of the students are iPhones and the teachers only know how to use iPhones. All she needs to do is figure out which buttons to push to make her brain work. That's what tutors are for! If you want to figure out how to help ADHD students who don't have smartphones understand the same concept, replace the smart phones with something else your child is familiar with. What is it like to be a star football player on a basketball court? How tough is it to work an Xbox if you've only ever used a Wii? You get the idea!