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Welcome back to Twin Cities Live, Bill Lunn, of course, from 5 Eyewitness News is guest
hosting with me today. Thanks for being here.
Oh, my pleasure.
Having some fun so far? We've got wine today.
And we got wine to look forward to.
I know, it's a good day and I think a lot of us take a skill we learn back in grade
school for granted. We do it everyday. I'm actually doing it right now - I'm reading.
Sometimes I do it better than others off that teleprompter but reading is integrated, of
course, into just about everything.
Everything we do everyday. Kids and adults who struggle to read often don't just have
a reading problem, memory and how they process sound could be the root of that issue. TCL's
Kelli Hanson shows us how a program called LearningRx gave a nine year old the reading
confidence that he had been searching for.
Nine year old Brooks Costi is finishing up his third grade year loving sports and finally
enjoying a book.
I was reading a chapter book at school and it's totally fun.
His mom Jennifer's thanking LearningRx.
Cloud....cloud...click...cloud
We couldn't really figure it out, we couldn't pinpoint what it does and I kept saying that.
I can't figure out what it is he needs.
They tried tutoring at school and then a friend mentioned brain training.
Brooks didn't just need regular tutoring. And if was it was going to be very intense.
He needed something brain training which is what they talked about.
Sold...sealed...sealed...sold
LearningRx director and former school teacher Kelli Sakalowski says likely 70% of those
who walked through their doors struggled to read.
I mean we'll lead and find some kids that come in and are older and their having math
issues, it's really because their reading is not very strong. So they're not even interpreting
what they are reading correctly to be able to solve the math problem.
Within six months of brain training at LearningRx, Brooks is now even surprising himself.
Grades are getting better and I am good in all those spelling scores.
They did the math testing and he had went up twenty points over the summer which is
more than a lot of kids do more than a lot of kids do over the course of the whole entire
school year. His spelling tests - his getting perfect scores on spelling tests. Before he
would get six to seven words wrong consistently every week. This is what he needed.
Six...seven...eight... You got it, good job!
"Tutoring Savage"
http://www.LearningRx.com/savage/