Creating, implementing, monitoring continual data analyses, then evaluating, and publishing with the medical model is a lofty goal. Then converting this successful executive function application to mainstream understanding is even loftier.
My learning disability training came from renowned The University of Kansas’ instructional center, located at the main Kansas City, Kansas hospital. The rigorous medical model training was based upon the neuro-psychological construct.
As a learning disability specialist and classroom teacher, in the ‘70s & ‘80s, I applied science and art to the accepted accelerated learning construct.
At that time, creative instruction, was not a friendly construct with some public-school districts, administrators, and educators that depended on government funding.
Traditional teaching methods were inherent and cemented.
To my dismay, I soon discovered:
1) Referred students required psycho-educational testing and evaluations to qualify, and many did not.
2)
Many students were
not being identified, and fell through the testing requirement cracks.
3)
Furthermore, public
schools could lose funding when the student was remediated. To maintain the
funding stability, a newly referred student was needed to replace the vacancy.
4)
This meant additional
after school staffing meetings with teachers, and administrators who were reluctant
to lengthen their work-day.
5)
Auditory/sound/listening
training was minimal, if any. (for creating auditory/visual integration for proficient
logic and conceptualization). Lightweight "listening" training lessons existed, but there were few heavy practice routines, like athletic or musical training.
These attributes created a large learning gap for most everyone. Many concerned parents
became desperate and sought private remediation resources.
Many instructional programs soon emerged. Some were cumbersome tutorials, whereas the individual traveled to a new setting/location.
This awkward construct opened the pathway for online leaning as broadband emerged, decades later.
Regrettably, many online auditory/visual training methods had their shortcomings with limited achievement results.
Then, there was me with my “arts in science” cognitive skills enhancement program with a phonological practice system that was working.
However, hasty mental solutions will not produce efficient procedural upskill training.
Fortunately, looping, vocalized, puppet characters can realize and maintain their phonological sequencing results through continued science research, upskill implementation practice, and technology.