DENVER, August 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Are you a parent of Pre-K student (3 to 6 years old)? Are you worried that he or she might have a learning disability?
The Center for InnerChange in Denver (www.centerforinnerchange.com), which has been helping children with learning challenges for 15 years, has compiled a list of 10 key questions to ask about your child to decide if he or she may need help:
1. Did not crawl, or crawled little?
2. Was delayed sitting up, walking and other benchmarks?
3. Is forgetting numbers, letters and nursery rhymes already
learned?
4. Needs training wheels on his/her bicycle when other children no
longer need them?
5. Is uncoordinated - trips, bumps into things?
6. Is finding it difficult to sound out letters?
7. Is having a speech problem?
8. Is not talking as much as other children?
9. Is frequently in need of repetition of instructions?
10. Is often not interested in playing with other children?
If you answered yes to the majority of these questions, Ron Minson, M.D., Medical Director at the Center for InnerChange, recommends you have your child evaluated by your pediatrician or family doctor. And, the sooner the better -- early intervention is key.
The Center for InnerChange is one of only twenty centers nationwide to offer the Dynamic Listening System, which is a program of music-based sound stimulation specifically designed to improve brain function resulting in increased attention, focus and auditory processing. Research has shown that reading, spelling and other learning problems are largely based on auditory processing difficulties.