Learning Problems - Dores Program - has anybody tried it with their child??

Question

Has anybody done the Dores program which is supposed to help with learning etc. I've heard it's set excercises that your child has to do for 10 mins twice a day for about 12 months. Has anyone has success as it's quite expensive - around $5000.

Answer 1

No experience with the Dores Program, but experience with a child who had trouble learning and who had some "mysterious learning disability" that wasn't dyslexia or other pronounced disabilities.

My son was an only child (adopted) for five years. He was a happy, vibrant, bright, well behaved little guy. The summer before he went to kindergarten I thought I was getting him ready by saying, "School is nice and enjoy it, but its business too. You have to listen to the teacher and sit and do work when they tell you." He was an active little guy but not wild. He was also a gentle little kid compared to some of the rough-house types in that kindergarten. The teacher was a yeller and appeared to be at her wits' end with all the kids. I was called right from October, and it started years and years of debating about what his problem might be. I used to think he was just kind of a little nervous (not afraid, just kind of not relaxed) at school. As time went on, whatever his problem was made him fall behind.

When he was good and grown up I heard that stress can cause elevated levels of cortisol, which causes difficulty concentrating.
I think now that was his problem, just as I thought it back then - only I hadn't heard specifically about cortisol. He is my first child, and I didn't know any better; and I wasn't confident enough to just blame the school at the time, but now I know I was right.

That school was suburban but it was chaotic because of the lack of structure provided. There was leniency when it came to bigger kids bullying little kids because these relics that ran the school thought "boys will be boys". I didn't want to raise the kind of rough-house boy there were so many of at that school, but by having a little boy who was active but well behaved I had apparently set him up for failure in that environment. A school where the teachers and principle believed in more structure, believed kids should be expected to be civilized and didn't yell and humiliate children would have been a better start for my son.

The other thing was they got word that my son was adopted three weeks into kindergarten, and that's when they started to interpret his civilized behavior as "introverted" and when they interpreted his slender build as "fragile".

I didn't have the confidence to be so sure it was the school and not my son, even though I knew for sure the child I saw at home and what I saw him doing. Today I have the benefit of hindsight and the benefit of seeing that I was right and how it unfolded.

My son needed a school that was more suitable for him. He also would have benefitted from having a tutor very early on to get him caught up. This was a kid who would take stacks of books to bed to read before he went to sleep. This was a young man who grew up to read medical books and teach himself to play guitar by reading books.

I have no way to know if your child's problem is with your child or with the teacher or school or even you (no offense but it happens). Now I can see, though, that if I had moved my child he wouldn't have had to pay as he has for what that school did. (When you're a young mother and someone is saying your child has some mysterious learning problem, you may say you're not sure he does; but you don't want to sound like you're blindly "defending" your child when there's the chance they could be right.)

Just thought I'd offer the benefit of my hindsight before you consider the expensive program. If your child has a clearcut
learning problem like dyslexia, that's one thing; but if its some non-descript, undefined "learning problem" that nobody can
explain to you then consider some of what I've said above.
(For my son they said, "some perceptual problem". If you're
hearing that type of thing, be careful.)

Answer 2

that's tragic for the moms and the youngsters. I thoroughly agree that each and each and every attempt should be made to keep the households in tact as a lot as a threat. It makes a lot more effective experience to spend the funds on helping the moms and youngsters construct their lives contained in the "authentic" international, than it does basically farming out the youngsters in all guidelines. The moms surely are sufferers, too, and those famlies should be kept. that's time we all started observing adoption without the rose-colored glasses on. attempting to locate foster houses for those children in an already overcrowded foster care gadget ought to really spoil their lives.

Answer 3

You need to find out what kind of Learning problem your child is having. You should tell his doctors and teachers of your concern, then go from there.

Answer 4

i've never heard of it but my child has a few lwarning dissabilities and i believe no set program will work u have to find out what exactly is going on and how u can help it like if its reading have test questions read to them thing like that check with your school also they have a lot of good advice

Answer 5

I have done a search for that program with no luck.. however I did find some links to help you... what particular problems is he having with learning ?