Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE)

• Poor instruction - If tutoring and additional homework does not quickly solve the problem then the cause of your child’s difficulties is something else.
• Lack of motivation - Motivation is seldom the reason for difficulty when a child first starts school, but with continual struggle and failure, most children lose their motivation and start to avoid hard tasks.  This avoidance then adds to learning problems.
• Lack of underlying learning skills - If learning problems cannot quickly be resolved with a little tutoring then there are deficiencies in the underlying learning skills.  These are required to make learning easy, efficient, and fast.

• Applying the PACE model will show you what happens during the act of learning.  It  pinpoints areas where your child’s skills are weak.  Lack of any one of these skills can affect one or more academic areas as well as the ease and speed of learning.  Learning skills are like the members of a team.  Follow along with me as I review the steps we take to learn, the role learning skills have and the problems created when individual learning skills are lacking.

Your child has probably taken achievement tests.  These tests measure how well a child is doing in an academic subject.  Intelligence (mental skills/cognition) tests measure the underlying learning skills the child has.  Unfortunately, these test results are very often misinterpreted.  If your child has been tested in the past or labeled as Learning Disabled (LD) or dyslexic, please click here for a short but important discussion of these test results.Most intelligence/cognition tests look at all of these mental skills in our model and although most give a total “IQ” score, we are far more interested in the individual test scores of the different mental abilities that are being tested.  The “IQ” score is just an average of the separate mental skills being evaluated.  It tells us nothing about the individual strengths and weaknesses of the underlying skills that would be important for reading, math calculations, comprehension, or geometry,But by analyzing the individual test scores and comparing them with the child’s achievement levels in different subject areas, we can determine a cause and effect relationship between the underlying mental skills required and the achievement area affected.  For example, poor sound blending, segmenting, and analysis (the CAUSE) will result in difficulty in reading and spelling (the EFFECT).  When these underlying skills are developed, reading and spelling will improve.After testing has confirmed or pinpointed the underlying cause of a learning problem, the next step is to institute a program to correct the deficient learning skill.

Telling you how to swing a golf club will not make you a good golfer.  Drill and practice will.  Telling you how to play the piano will not make you a good pianist.  Drill and practice will.  Many studies show that passive, undemanding instruction does not significantly impact deficient learning skills and mental abilities.  However, intense, challenging procedures provided one-on-one with careful sequencing and immediate feedback do.

PACE (Processing And Cognitive Enhancement) was developed by a multi-disciplinary team of professionals to quickly and significantly build those underlying mental skills that are so vital to academic success.  PACE procedures are done one-on-one with a trainer.  But like a video game, the training consists of many small steps and immediate feedback.  This gives maximum improvement in the shortest time.

As a child progresses through a procedure, tasks are added to it requiring greater attention and forcing new skills to become automatic.  Also, once the child achieves a task, distractions are added again forcing greater attention.  PACE achieves maximum results in the shortest period of time, stretches abilities, makes skills automatic, and builds tremendous concentration.  The results have been outstanding.  Students average over 3.6 years improvement in all deficient skills within 10 weeks!  The testimonies we get from students and parents are inspiring.  Warning, This takes work!

To get these significant improvements requires work on the child and parents part.  PACE requires at least six hours of intense training per week.  (Three hours at home and three hours with a trainer).  Yes, big results require big effort!

Here are six questions you should be able to answer before making any significant investment of time, money and effort.

1. Does your child have difficulty learning?
2. Do these difficulties presently, or will they in the future, have a negative impact on any of the following: your child’s self esteem, school advancement, parent-child relationships, vocational opportunities, friendships, attitude?
3. Does it appear that the major cause is deficient underlying learning skills?  (This may require testing to confirm.)
4. Is it reasonable to assume that if the deficient skills were improved, learning would be faster, easier, and better?
5. Does working one-on-one with intensity and feedback to achieve large, fast results make sense to you?  (Watching our PACE introduction video will allow you to answer this better.)
6. If the PACE program was provided to your child, what changes would you expect to see?

Although all these questions need an answer, you may not have enough information to fully answer them now.  For additional information, take the following step: