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Pamela Gates

Pamela Gates is a certified learning specialist in the Dianne Craft Right Brain Learning System, with eighteen years of experience helping bright, hardworking children who struggle with learning. A homeschooling mother of six, Pam brings personal insight into the challenges families face—her own daughter overcame dyslexia through the alternative teaching methods Pam now shares with other families.

A sought-after speaker at homeschool conferences, Pam inspires hope and equips parents with practical

strategies they can implement immediately. Her workshops are engaging, lighthearted, and transformative, helping children recognize their own capability and confidence.

Based in Denver, Colorado, Pam also offers personal consultations and tutoring services, combining professional expertise with warmth and understanding to support each child’s growth. With additional certification as a nutritional health professional, she partners with families to address children’s nutritional needs—ensuring learning and development are supported from every angle.

Special Needs Conference ~

June 4, 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Auditory Processing and Memory

Do you have a child you suspect has an auditory processing problem? Become your child’s own diagnostician as you identify, bypass, and correct auditory processing problems with your child at home. There are ten auditory channels. Some channels affect academics (reading, phonics and sight words, spelling, and math), while others affect everyday life (is easily confused, misunderstands verbal information or sequencing, is hearing own silent thinking voice, can’t think with background noise, has poor working memory, demonstrates speech delay or articulation issues). Learn to identify the exact auditory channels that are affected. Learn to bypass the auditory learning glitch by using your child’s natural photographic memory, and how to correct the auditory glitch by using the proven methods of brain integration therapy at home. Find out what common food can be contributing to your child’s articulation issues by causing him to hear sounds “like underwater.” MIT research shows that targeted nutritional interventions (such as using the correct amounts of essential fatty acids and a special supplement called lecithin) often greatly improve memory in children and adults.

The Biology of Behavior: Understanding the Connection

Between the Brain and Gut
Johnny is a constant motion machine.Tom cries in frustration over minor matters. Susie forgets what she has just learned. According to Dr. Sydney Walker, children tend to “act how they feel.” This fascinating workshop provides you with clues to your child’s brain/body chemistry. William Crook, MD, has found that over 85% of children who suffer with sensory processing disorders or attention or mood disorders when older, have experienced multiple ear infections as a young child. Untreated, these children often go on to have many hidden food allergies and asthma. It is easy to correct these imbalances at home and dramatically affect your child’s learning day. The testimonies that we receive from parents across the United States who are using these simple remedies with their children are amazing!

WORKSHOPS

Identifying & Correcting Blocked Learning Gates

Learn how to diagnose and correct learning disabilities—or just mild processing glitches. This is for your “puzzling child.” Is it just a maturity issue, or is something else going on? If you have a bright, hardworking child who has to work too hard to learn, he is telling you that one or more of his four learning gates are blocked. You can easily pinpoint which of your child’s gates are blocked. Learn how to be your own diagnostician using a symptom checklist, then learn the necessary interventions. This can be done by the parents at home. It doesn’t have to be so hard for your child! Find out specifically how the brain processes information, and where that processing can break down. You will learn things you have never heard of before in a homeschool workshop. A homeschooling mom with a Ph.D. in special education said that she learned more in this workshop about how kids learn and how to make learning easier, than she had in all her university courses!

Training Your Child’s Powerful Photographic Memory

Many people think that some are just born with a “photographic memory.” But we now know that this amazing ability can be easily taught. Teach your children the lifelong skill of studying for tests by taking a picture of the contents of a chapter. These memory techniques are commonly used by Cambridge University students to reduce studying time. For some children, math is a monster! They hate it and always feel dumb when doing it. These children have difficulty learning math facts. They tend to do poorly on tests, because they “forget” how to do the math processes (division, fractions, algebra, etc.) In this workshop, you will learn how to help your child: (1) finally store math facts in his long-term memory, and (2) finally store math processes in his long-term memory. Your child will finally be able to pass the math tests and go on to the higher math courses using right-brain math. No curriculum to purchase… just fast, effective, right-brain strategies to use at home to reduce math frustration and tears! So many moms report that their child now likes math. These powerful visual memory techniques work with all types of learners and can be a godsend for a child who has an auditory processing glitch. Have a happier child this year. Even works with adults!