Articles By Dianne Craft

         This section contains an anthology of sorts of my most popular articles on subjects relating to struggling learners and right brain children. Many are based on my workshops that I offer while others are samples derived from the content containted in my books, DVDs, and CDs.

         If you don’t know where to begin and feel overwhelmed with your child’s problems, start off with: “The 4 Learning Gates: Identifying Your Child’s Learning Block”

         Then, to help determine what learning gates might be blocked in your child, read "Identifying & Correcting Blocked Learning Gates". After that, check out these popular articles:
  1. “Teaching the Right Brain Child”
  2. "Dyslexia: How Do I Teach This Child?"
  3. "Smart Kids Who Hate To Write"
  4. "The Biology Of Learning & Behavior"
         If you would like to browse a list of articles by topics, check out the "articles by keyword" box on this page.


Find out how a child's diet affects the way that his or her brain functions through the story of Joseph, a child who, with a change of diet, overcame his behavior problems. Read more...

Keywords: serotonin, antibiotics, yeast, ear infections, acidophilus.


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Music has the ability to influence thinking efficiency. Find out ways to eliminate noise pollution in your house and what to replace it with. Read more...

Keywords: music and the brain, Mozart Effect, auditory exercises, ear infections, noise pollution.


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Learn about various types of dyslexia, the way that dyslexia works, and if your child has only a glitch or a dysfunction. Read more...

Keywords: dyslexia, dysgraphia, learning glitch, dysfunction, writing stress, visual stress, auditory stress, writing problems, reading problems, listening problems.


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Learn how repeat ear infections and repeat antibiotic use negatively affect the way that children process information. Great companion article to the "Brain Training With Music" article! Read more...

Keywords: acidophilus, allergies, antibiotics, auditory stress, ear infections, essential fatty acids, hyperactivity.


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Fatty acids are essential nutrients that are needed for efficient brain processing. Find out why people experience deficiencies and how to fix this problem. Read more...

Keywords: behavior problems, dry skin & hair, dyspraxia, essential fatty acids, thirsty children.

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Determine if your high-IQ child actually has a learning glitch that is causing him or her to perform poorly in schoolwork. Read more...

Keywords: dysgraphia, gifted child, learning glitch, twice exceptional.


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Does your child have allergies to things such as dairy and nuts? Find out how to check for the allergies that might be causing them to struggle in learning! Read more...

Keywords: allergies, antibiotics, asthma, bed wetting, behavior problems, ear infections, eczema, learning glitch, sniffling, stomach ache.

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What are learning gates and how do they affect the way that children learn?  Identify which of your child's learning gates might be blocked and what you can do to help. Read more...

Keywords: attention & focusing problems, auditory stress, laborious writing, learning gate, learning glitch, visual stress, writing stress, writing reversals.


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A breakthrough study done in 1975 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that a daily supply of lecithin "improves brain chemical activity." In particular, they found that it improved memory, speech, and motor problems that affected balance and movement. In this article, you will find out more about the benefits of Lecithin supplements. Read more...

Keywords: auditory stress, coordination, hyperactivity, lecithin, memory.

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Find out if your child is actually hyperexcitable instead of hyperactive and treat this situation with natural remedies. Read more...

Keywords: ADD, anger, antibiotics, hyperactivity, hyperexcitivity, magnesium.

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Learn alternate ways of teaching math to right-brained children through storytelling and other means. Read more...

Keywords: visual memory, right brain math strategy, math fact memorization, right brain.

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If your child is struggling at reading, find out why by using these simple, easy-to-use techniques. Read more...

Keywords: visual stress, reading reversals,mispronunciation, eye dominance, Eye Eight Exercise, essential fatty acids.


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Find out if your child’s brain is wired to use the hand he/she is writing with, or if he/she is ‘mixed dominant’. Many bright children avoid writing at all costs because of a ‘block’ in their writing system. This can make them look lazy, unmotivated or sloppy. If your child has Symptoms of Stress in the Writing System, you will find this article very helpful. Read more...

Keywords: writing problems, eye/hand dominance, midline stability, writing reversals, learning glitch, poor copying, laborious writing.


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In the animal kingdom, 50% of the animals are right paw dominant, and 50% are left paw dominant. In the human kingdom only 10-15% of us are ‘left paw’ dominant. But, half of us are Right Brain dominant, and half of us are Left Brain dominant. If you have a child who has to ‘work too hard to learn’, you may have a right brain child learning with a left brain curriculum. Read more...

Keywords: right brain, left brain, visual memory, spelling strategies.


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Articles by Keyword

acidophilus

ADD

allergies

anger

antibiotics

asthma

attention & focusing problems

auditory exercises

auditory stress

bed wetting

behavior problems

coordination

dry skin & hair

dysfunction

dyslexia

dysgraphia

dyspraxia

essential fatty acids

ear infections

eczema

Eye Eight Exercise

eye dominance

eye/hand dominance

gifted child

hyperactivity

hyperexcitivity

laborious writing

learning gates

learning glitch

lecithin

left brain

listening problems

magnesium

math fact memorization

memory

midline stability

mispronunciation

Mozart Effect

music and the brain

noise pollution

poor copying

writing stress

reading reversals

right brain

right brain math strategies

serotonin

sniffling

spelling strategies

sniffling

thirsty children

twice exceptional

visual memory

visual stress

writing problems

writing stress

writing reversals

yeast