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Hello Foundations Families and Friends! This week, we have the honor of sharing a very special video with you from a former Foundations family, Debbie Siciliani-Smallwood and her amazing son, Sam. Sam's struggle with the symptoms of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADD left him in a situation where he was working at a 1st grade level in all subjects while in 4th grade. As Debbie …
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Hello Foundations Families and Friends! Over the next five weeks we will be sharing videos with you from current and former Foundations parents and students. Our hope is that their stories will encourage you and remind you that you are not alone in your journey as you navigate the challenges that come with working through learning difficulties. As you'll hear in their stories, THERE IS HOPE FOR …
Hello Foundations Families and Friends, Some of you may wonder why Foundations students spend regular time at school listening to music while they do tracing and cursive. Well, the fact is, music has a big impact on brain development. Studies have shown that listening to specially composed music can: Increase intelligence by boosting spatial reasoning. Repair brain damage. Improve language and …
Did you know that science has proven that there is a very simple ingredient to having a happier and healthier brain, and as a matter of fact, this simple ingredient can even make you live longer? It is so simple, actually, that you might even doubt how incredibly important this ingredient, or should I say mindset, is... Gratitude. I live with and care for a 95 year old woman with Alzheimer's …
This week's Growth Mindset Discussion is about the importance of sleep to our brain and body. Did you know that, on average, we forget 40% of what we learn within the first 20 minutes of learning it? Yikes! But it doesn't have to be this way! A good night's sleep can change that. Though many of us think of sleep as wasted time that we cannot use to do all the things we need to get done, sleep is …
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