An study coach helps the child understand the process of learning across all subject areas where a tutor who will help them master content in a specific subject area.

Your child will be happier, less argumentative, and they will have a plan for their work. You will start to see more success in their work completion rate, work quality and effort. You will see them begin to study differently and their grades should start to improve.

To be fair, all centers in Singapore follows the MOE syllabus and the contents are covered. If your child is struggling, we have Smart Consultation to support your child with individualized attention and Study Coach to work with the learning progress.

With more than 10 community partners dealing with different learning challenges, we are the only centre in Singapore to integrate counsellors, coaches and teachers together.

Together with parents, we can unlock the potential of your child.

Each child is different – if your child is committed to the process, you should see the child incorporating elements of the process fairly quickly. Just like any other skill, the more you practice, the more success you will see.

We are confident in our programmes as we have helped many others with serious issues. With more strategic partners (counsellors, therapists and learning specialists) on board, we are confident to impact more families.

We promise that we have the support to help you navigate challenges your child is facing by strengthening the child's executive function skills and when they learn to focus on effort and strategies, they will feel responsible for their own life.

If the programmes fail it comes from the parents' willingness to trust our counsellors and sadly most families will be stuck in an endless cycle of pursuing academic excellence via just giving more tuition, which most does not yield the desirable results

You must remember it takes a village to raise a child. It is not a taboo to visit counsellors to seek professional help for family and child.

Accept the diagnostic results and seek the right help fast.

You will know that they are ready when they have shown the ability to work at the center or at home independently while fully incorporating their newly honed Executive Function competencies and achieving the academic success that they have hoped for.

THE 8 EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS

INHIBITION - The abillty to ignore distractions and resist temptations

INITIATION - The ability to take action and get started

SHIFTING - Having the mental flexibility to switch from one task or thought

process to another.

EMOTIONAL CONTROL - The ability to manage your feelings

WORKING MEMORY - The ability to hold information

PLANNING - The ability to set goals and apply strategies

ORGANISATION - The ability to create and maintain a system.

SELF-MONITORING - The ability to monitor and evaluate performance.

Parents play a critical role in providing a learning bridge between school and the home, while instilling in their children positive attitudes and values towards learning and life.

As parents we love our child, but if the child is underperforming due to family reasons, we have the right support to help the family. Behind every struggling learner there is a story to tell. We need you to be committed in order to see positive changes in the family

If parents sign a release of information, we will speak to schools, doctors and/or other specialists working with your student. If a call lasts longer than 15 minutes, we will bill the account on file our hourly coaching rate.

We believe in tracking progress! Our goal is for students (and parents) to be able to celebrate areas of improvement and identify areas where students have yet to reach their goals.

One of our objectives is to be a valuable community “citizen” and build relationships with many specialists. We can provide names of practitioners, but will not make recommendations as that is a decision that should be left to families. Once we better understand your child’s learning profile / needs, we can provide a variety of names to you. Additionally, if you have a resource that you think highly of, please pass on their name to us!

This is the most comprehensive test to evaluate your child's learning ability.

17 Study Skill Functions

(Time management, memory, perceived stress test and 14 other functions)

8 Executive Function

(Inhibition, Self-monitoring and 6 other functions)

12 Classroom Executive Function

(Auditory, Visual, Inference, Saccadic fixation, Sustain attention and 8 other functions)

The assessment also includes a test on the family emotional wellbeing, parenting style, learning style and optional detection of learning disabililty.

Executive Function (EP) and study skills are the "how" of learning. A deficit in these skills is often the "why" of certain challenges, such as lack of organization, difficulty getting started, or rushing through work. The good news is that skills are built, not born and with the right strategies, EF skills can be built too.

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS ARE THE

"SELF-MANAGEMENT" SYSTEM OF THE BRAIN,

STUDY SKILLS ARE STRATEGIES THAT IMPROVE

RETENTION AND RECALL OF IN FORMATION

Certain skills are critical for students to both survive and thrive in school:

• Managing time

• Organizing thoughts and materials

• Paying attention

• Planning and prioritizing

• Getting started (task initiation)

• Staying on track

• Remembering what to do and when to do it

• Problem solving

• Reflecting on past behavior and outcomes

• Managing feelings and emotions

If your child is struggling with mastering the content of a specific subject, e.g. math or science, a tutor is a great start. If your child is struggling with initiating, planning, organizing, or managing their work and/or has higher-than-desirable anxiety about their overall workload, helping them improve their Study / Executive Function Skills will help.

Strong Executive Function Skills are essential in every transition process. Key transition times are where demands of completing schoolwork independently increase and the increased expectations/workload trigger signs of a problem with executive function.

Lack of EF skills become most apparent during these times, as there is a jump in workload and school expectations. You can have a student who is doing very well and then all of a sudden, they are showing signs of stress because school expectations have outpaced student readiness and skills.

Per ADDitutude Magazine: “Think of executive function as what the chief executive officer of a company must do — analyze, organize, decide, and execute. Very similarly, the six steps of executive function are:

1. Analyze a task 2. Plan how to address the task 3. Organize the steps needed to carry out the task 4. Develop timelines for completing the task 5. Adjust or shift the steps, if needed, to complete the task 6. Complete the task in a timely way”

Students with EF challenges are often labeled as "lazy" or "unmotivated, when in fact they `tent to do nothing more than succeed. By recognizing that their behaviors are a result of underdeveloped EF skills, we can teach solutions to these challenges vs. simply pushing them harder to do something that they do not have the skills to do yet.

POSSIBLE MISSING SKILLS

- Planning: Challenges with chunking, knowing what to do.

- Emotional Control; Avoidance due to anxiety, giving up.

- Initiation: Not having the skills to get started.

POSSIBLE MISSING SKILLS

- Emotional Control: Test anxiety, rushing to get it done.

-Self-Monitoring: Missing directions, not reviewing answers,

- StudySkills: Note-taking, active studyskills.

POSSIBLE MISSING SKILLS

- Inhibition: Hard to ignore distractions, e.g, chat, YouTube.

- Shifting: Ability to move to non-preferred activity.

- Working Memory: Tracking multiple directions given

simultaneously.