Welcome to Japari School: Therapy and Assessment Centre! Parents are often reluctant to consider that their children might have a learning problem. This is absolutely understandable. For teachers, one of the hardest situations is suggesting that a child could have a learning challenge. No one should dismiss a teacher’s experience. Teachers who have worked … Read more
Why choosing a remedial school is better than choosing a mainstream school’s learning support centre It’s no secret that mainstream schooling is to a large extent not meeting children’s learning needs. The scores in maths and science are terrible. South Africa’s schooling is in dire straits. Private schools do see a better pass rate for … Read more
Thriving with Sensory Processing Issues – Schooling that Meets the Needs of Afflicted Children Imagine that wearing clothes can be so uncomfortable that you refuse to get dressed. Coming into contact with other people can be so disturbing that you crawl under tables to be alone. The idea of someone brushing past your elbow is … Read more
Remedial Education and the Learning Support Child As we have seen, there is a great need for remedial education, and not only in South Africa. Children struggling in the areas of maths and reading need extra attention immediately because, the longer that the child falls behind, the less likely they are to catch up. For … Read more
Touching your world: Fine motor skills Babies are arguably born with the least amount of inborn instincts of any creatures on earth. While a baby calf can stand within hours of being born, it takes a baby months to learn to do the same. Some suggest this instinctual “blank-slate” gives us an incredible capacity to … Read more
Five major challenges to your child’s learning – and what to do about them There are many learning problems that children face. Many of these have always been an issue. Some are more accentuated today than in years past. Thanks to scientific progress, many can be more easily assessed. Thanks to the assessment many can … Read more
Dyslexia and the fascinating link between Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Richard Branson and Steve Jobs What is your reaction when you are faced with the following line of text? Lraenign to raed is cllhenginag for jstu abtou ervyneo. That is not a typo. As many as 700 million people worldwide would see any sentence that … Read more
Remedial Education in the Primary School “Tell me I forget. Teach me I remember. Involve me I learn.” – (Mis)Attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Remedial means: “intended to correct or improve something.” The root word is “remedy” – “the means of solving a problem.” Many children struggle with the basic fundamentals of reading, writing and mathematics. … Read more
How to Give Your Children the Emotional Support They Need Are your school-going children battling due to emotional needs that are not being met? Read on to see how these needs are being met at Japari School. Children are always developing in a physical and academic sense while at school. That’s not all. They … Read more
Is Your Child Battling With Speech Development? Here’s What You Need To Know Speech is so intrinsic to our everyday communication that most of us take it for granted. Language, and speech in particular, underlies our ability to read and write, an ability necessary for modern living. Our speech development even plays an important role … Read more