Locus of Control is central in teaching underachievers. We find areas where the child or adult and the tutor have control and develop these areas, spreading them over the areas where they feel either that they have lost control or have never been in control. Our modus operandi is a precise reversal of special education techniques. To use a military analogy we by-pass pockets of resistance and attack them from behind.
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