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Is Your Child Struggling Academically? Help Them Catch Up Faster (Without More Homework Battles)

If your child is struggling to keep up in school, despite trying their best, and homework time feels like a constant battle, this 1-hour course will help you understand why. Most academic challenges aren’t due to a lack of effort or intelligence, but instead stem from underlying gaps in brain development, sensory processing, and foundational skills that often go unnoticed. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify your child’s specific challenges in areas like reading, math, attention, and comprehension, and gain a deeper understanding of why traditional approaches may not be working.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify the most common environmental and instructional factors that lead to academic delays in primary subjects.
2. Use simple, evidence-based observation tools to pinpoint specific gaps in their child’s current academic performance.
3. Explain the difference between accuracy (getting it right) and fluency (getting it right quickly and effortlessly) and why the latter is vital for long-term retention.
4. Trace comprehension difficulties back to foundational deficits in decoding and language processing.
5. Use strategies to not only reduce resistance to learning but to make it fun.

Course Information

• Target Audience: parents, teachers, and educational professionals supporting children in the academic setting
• PLEASE NOTE: This course does not offer AOTA-approved continuing education credits.
• Course Instructor:  Marc D’Antin, BCBA
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This course is NOT approved for AOTA continuing education units (CEUs). This distance learning, interactive activity offers 1 hour of training targeted to parents, caregivers, and educators. For state licensing or other credential renewal, contact your specific agency for guidance.

Marc D’Antin, BCBA, is a board-certified behavior analyst. He holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a graduate degree in Mental Health Counseling. Marc has worked in education since 2006, serving in roles such as classroom teacher, district-wide administrator, and director of a private school. He has served as the Director of Fit Learning with Fit Learning Chicago, utilizing intensive fluency-based instruction to help students catch up academically since 2018. Throughout his career, Marc has witnessed both successes and systemic gaps in the education system. His passion is providing effective, functional education to children who have been left behind by traditional instruction methods.

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• Financial: Marc presents for Sensational Brain LLC without a commission.
• Nonfinancial: Marc is the director of Fit Learning in Bethesda, MD.

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