08/07/2023
What if My Child Struggles in School?
If your child is easily distracted, has difficulties with recalling lessons or generally resists learning, there may be other factors at play. A child’s academic struggles may be indications of other sensory-motor, social-emotional, or developmental challenges. Learning comes easily for children when they have a solid foundation of motor development, sensory processing, social confidence, and self-regulation or impulse control.
While these skills are essential for academic success, they are not necessarily developed through academics alone. The ability to process information and learn, for example, relies on spatial awareness, balance, and imagination. Children with under-developed sensory processing may appear scattered, have poor motor control, and are often drawn to sensory-seeking behaviors like fidgeting, pushing, or playing rough. When these foundational skills are under-developed, giving a child more hours of math lessons will not increase comprehension. What will increase your child’s comprehension is building proprioceptive capacity, also known as spatial awareness, in support of sensory and cognitive processing. Paying attention to healthy motor development, sensory processing, and social skills will best prepare children for learning.
Schedule your Free Sensory Motor and Academic Screening to help understand your child’s needs.
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Caulbridge School works to balance a child’s sensory-motor, social-emotional and academic development because skipping over any of these distinct areas will have consequences as your child moves through his/her school years.
