EATON LEARNING CENTER STUDY

Howard Eaton, Director of Eaton Learning Center, Vancouver, B.C. had the opportunity as part of his private assessment practice to independently pre- and post-test three students who attended the Arrowsmith Program after one, two and three years in the program. The measures used were the Woodcock-Johnson III Cognitive and Achievement Tests. Following is a summary of the results.

SUMMARY

What Were the Improvements?

• Faster cognitive efficiency

• Improved visual-motor integration

• Improved visual-perceptual functioning

• Improved auditory processing for speech sounds and discourse

• Improved semantic knowledge

• Improved achievement skills

Case Study #1

8 year old boy - 3 years in program

• Working memory for numbers
2000 was 2nd %ile, 2004 was 43rd %ile (Average)
• Visual-Motor Copying speed
2000 was 5th %ile, 2004 was 50th %ile (Average)
• Visual Processing Speed
2000 was 12th %ile, 2004 was 45th %ile (Average)
• Academic fluency - reading speed, writing speed, and math calculation speed at grade level expectation
• Math Calculation Skills
2000 was 1st %ile, 2004 was 62nd %ile

Case Study #2

12 year old girl - 2 Years In Program

• Visual-spatial awareness
1999 Visual IQ 11th %ile, 2003 Average
• Working Memory
1999 was 4th %ile, 2003 Average
• Visual processing speed
1999 was 38th %ile, 2003 was 90th %ile

Case Study #3

18 year old girl - 1 year in Program

• Writing Fluency
2001 was 2nd %ile, 2004 was 53rd %ile
• Math Fluency
2001 was 28th %ile, 2004 was 75th %ile
• Nonverbal IQ
2001 was 8th %ile, 2004 was average
• Visual-auditory learning
2001 was 4th %ile, 2004 was 61st %ile
• Cognitive efficiency
2001 was 18th %ile, 2004 was 64th %ile

Conclusion

As a result of the significance of these findings, Howard Eaton has opened the Eaton Arrowsmith School offers the Arrowsmith Program in Vancouver.

www.eatonarrowsmithschool.com