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
Low motivation in learners: Causes, Consequences and Correctives Low motivation is something that everyone will face at some time or another. For students, it can become an overriding outlook towards schoolwork and studies. If unchecked, this leads to negative outcomes during their school career. Worse still, this can cause a downward spiral of further low motivation … Read more
Stop bullying – Learning Support child No one else will rescue your child – will you? Here’s how you can bring hope to a hopeless situation! Bullying is an age-old problem – but no-one should by any means accept it as the status quo. The effects of bullying of Learning Support Child can include severe … Read more
The Vital Role of Learning Support in Meeting Your Child’s Specific Needs Japari is acutely aware of the vital role that learning support plays in ensuring the holistic development of our learners. Each child has a different set of strengths and abilities. Each child also learns in a particular way. Japari endeavours to develop every … Read more
Help your child to excel, with Therapy Support How remedial education is enhanced through application of the therapeutic disciplines Every good parent and educator wants to improve the learning experience and abilities of the children under their care. It follows that every parent and educator will have seen how difficult it is to uplift the … Read more
Can parents of children suffering from ADHD place their children in a helpful educational environment? Is there such a place anywhere in our city of Joburg? Parents of children diagnosed with ADHD may have experienced a spectrum of denial, anxiety, and even depression. Some studies suggest that ADHD is widely over-diagnosed, or alternatively, misdiagnosed. This … Read more