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Is Your Child Struggling to Learn?
Is your child struggling in school? Are report cards a time of stress and worry? Is homework a never-ending battle, leaving both you and your child exhausted? Or, has your child been diagnosed with a learning disability, and the school just isn’t providing enough help?
There’s nothing wrong with your child!
Most likely, your child just learns differently than others. And that means a non-traditional program is necessary to transform tears into smiles! When your child is given the correct set of learning tools to use, the sky’s the limit as far as learning goes!
Most parents are caught in this very crossfire, not knowing what to do to help their children succeed academically. Did you know that approximately thirty percent of students struggle to read? And that reading affects every subject in school, even math?
One in five students has dyslexia, and sadly, these bright, verbal children rarely get the proper help they need. In addition, approximately one in forty-four children is born with autism. These children are often confined to Special Day Class where they are “warehoused” but rarely given a set of tools they need for school or life success.
Your Child Needs a Non-Traditional Tutoring Center!
Most struggling learners – whether it’s dyslexia, autism, or just a lagging behind academically – are failing because they are being forced to use the reading program you used, the spelling program their grandparents used, and a math program that was designed with anything but the child in mind. (Common Core Math)
This is like asking your child to speak French all day without a single lesson on speaking the language! Kids with learning disabilities especially need an avenue for success, a non-traditional one!
Learning Success is Right Around the Corner!
Every Child Can Learn…With Bravo! Tutoring
Lisa Harp founded the Harp Learning Institute in 2000, which evolved into Bravo! Tutoring. Four Harp Learning Institute learning centers helped tens of thousands of children and teens in Northern California from 2000 to 2023. In 2022, Lisa launched her successful reading program, Bravo! Reading.
Lisa has been a certified teacher for over 40 years and holds degrees in both English and Elementary Education as well as certificates in Brain Integration Therapy from Rebecca Kennard’s Brain Transformations (Original Brain Integration Methods from Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP), Accuspark with Brain Integration, CLAD (English Language Development), Kyrene Elementary District Reading Instruction Certificate, Advanced Peer Coaching as well as extensive training in vision therapy.
Lisa also founded the Harp Learning Academy, a private school catering to children with learning disabilities in Lodi, California in 2011. The school helped scores of children both academically and socially for twelve years.
Lisa also is the author for young adult teen novels under the pen name L. L. Crane. She is the mother of three and grandmother of two.
So…What is Bravo! Tutoring?
Bravo! Tutoring provides “tutoring with a twist”. In addition to academics taught in a unique way (one that unique learners understand, not the other way around), your child receives prescriptive dose of auditory and visual processing skills, memory building, and brain integration exercises. This comprehensive combination of skills training is what brings your child to grade level or beyond!
As a mother and teacher, Lisa was heartbroken when her son struggled with learning differences in the early 1990’s. (see Nathan’s Story)
Although she was a credentialed teacher, she had few resources to help him, so she went on a “mother mission”.
Within one year, Nathan was an honor student!
From there, Lisa developed the Bravo! Learning System (formerly the Harp Learning System), which was successfully used in the Harp Learning Institute Learning Centers for over twenty-three years with an astounding success rate.
Over 98% of the students who went through the program became grade level learners. Tens of thousands of students have followed this path to become not only honor students but happy, well-adjusted students who enjoy learning. Now, Bravo! Tutoring in Valley Springs, California offers the same learning system to your child…at a super affordable price!