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Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that when I ordered your system I was very skeptical.  My oldest son has Central Auditory Processing
Disorder, Dyslexia, and some other small learning disabilities.  You wouldn't know it if you met him though.  He is an awesome kid,
athletic, hard working and has a huge heart.  It has been a struggle for him to do a lot of academic things because of his LD's....but
the benefit of homeschooling is that we can keep trying different things until we find something that works.  Well.....Time's Tales works
!!!!  I thought yesterday was going to be another frustrating day with trying to learn the times tables.  We have tried so many different
methods to no avail.  When we started your program, I got the "this is baby stuff, I don't want to do this" etc.  I told him to give it an hour
and he would be done for the day.  Well, within about 30 minutes he was laughing and so proud.....I don't think he could
believe that he was actually able to do the math !!!!!!    We had to call dad at work so he could tell him about it and still last night at
bedtime he was asking me to ask him questions so he could answer them.  This is HUGE for us. I can't wait to work on it some
more today.  I just wanted to say Thanks from the bottom of my heart.  This was such an awesome experience for us and especially
for him.  Thank you for giving my son (and my family) something to smile about.  I can't tell you how good it feels to see
him succeed...he works so hard.
Blessings !!!!!!
Sherry T. in Va
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Oh My Gosh, Thank you a million times over - NO wait make that a million times 6, 7, 8, and 9!! :-)

I am going to paste and copy an email that I sent to the TS Alliance list serve. Which is a very large national and international group of
parents with children with a rare genetic disease called Tuberous Sclerosis. I explained just what your program did for my child. I sure
hope anyone struggling like we have gets a copy for themselves. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I sure wish you would
come out with some more learning tools. This is absolutely the best!!! Here was my email to the TS Alliance list serve:

This is not TS related but I wanted to share this with any other frustrated parent of a 3rd or 4th grader (or any age) struggling with
multiplication and division facts. First off before Zack was tested for TS I thought surely he had it because he has white spots on him
similar to Megan's. He also has (2) brain cortical hamartomas. He also has a bi-cusped aortic valve (which the cardiologist told me
had nothing to do with TS but I had convinced myself that he may have had rhabdomyomas while his heart was forming that caused
his aortic valve to grow abnormally-sounds crazy). Anyhow his test came back that he did not have TS. But this child has struggled
in Math so bad that I thought maybe he had some delays because for the life of me I couldn't understand why three math
teachers and two years of trying to teach them to him he just didn't get them. He could get the basic 0-5 and 10's and 11's
since of course they were the easy ones. Monday I ran across a home schooling website that had an advertisement for a program
that stated it could teach a child how to do the hardest multiplication facts (the 6's, 7's, 8's and 9's) and in fact could also teach them
division in less than 1 hour. These are exactly the ones Zack can't get. I thought they were crazy but for $16.95 I decided to give it a
whirl. I have sure spent more than that on books, tapes, multiplication rap video's (ha), flash cards etc.. Well lo and behold I got the
priority package today and started working with him after dinner around 7:30. By 8:35 he knew how to multiply and
divide all of these higher digits. It uses a mnemonic story system to help your child memorize the information. He was rattling
them out faster than I could check his answers. It is a great program and no I don't advertise for them. I am seriously thinking
about going to my sons school and telling our 3rd and 4th grade teachers and principal that this has done in 1 hour what we all
couldn't do in 2 years of hard work. And they all know how frustrated I am. You can get it at www.timestales.com I think it was $12.95
for multiplication and it was $16.95 for multiplication and division (deluxe) - I got the deluxe set and am so glad I did. They had
moved Zack into the EIP class for math only because of not knowing is multiplication facts. YAHOO!!

Thanks, Melissa
"Okay, add me to your list of amazed parents!!!!  What a program!!  Great for children with dyslexia! When we started my  8 yr
old (dyslexic) son couldn't do any of the multiplication problems, and my 10 yr old (dyslexic/ADD) son could only answer the 9x9
multiplication problem from memory.  I worked with each son for about 20 minutes the first day.  It took another 20 minutes, on the
second day, to complete the program and they both had it down pat.  Both scored 100 on their test!

P.S.  Now, if only the makers of this program would put together a "pre-packaged" division program!!  I would happily pay another
$15, just for the convience of it !!!!"

A very satisfied customer,
Kimberly
Garret - 9 ( No prior experience w/multiplication, dyslexic)
Chelsea - 4

"Garret (dyslexic) picked these up so quickly - I have to admit I had my doubts that he would - but, Wow! This really works.
He couldn't wait to meet Dad at the door.

Chelsea (4) did not want to be left out. I told her she could sit & listen - not say anything. Later on I heard her saying, "Mrs. Weeks &
Mrs. Snowman drove 56mph."

When I was done with Garret (20 min. or so) he said, "That wasn't too bad. Can we keep that?"
We at Times Tales do not pretend to be medical professionals in any way. We are simply three homeschooling
Moms who took a learning method that worked for our children and made it available to others.

Learning that our product has been a lifesaver to children with disabilities, especially dyslexia, has been a
serendipitious discovery. And while we can't give you any verified studies regarding why our program works so
well, we can make some educated guesses.

1) The story aspect of the program engages the right side of the brain as opposed using only the left side as
math normally does.
2) The fact that the stories are both visual and verbal allow two more learning modalities to come into play.
3) Our program is SIMPLE! There are no colors or extraneous items on the page to distract from the story
memorization.
4) Story characters/elements are consistent. Six will always be "the first grade class" and seven will always be
"Mrs. Weeks".
5) It is fun and non-threatening. Children do not even need to know they are learning multiplication until you
reach the flashcard      phase of the program. This is important for children who are used to "failing".
6) The characters and stories turn math facts into something the child can relate to, thus setting off a
"trigger" to memorization.

We do know that both parents and children who live with academic failure as a daily event see this program as a
near-miracle. Just the fact that they can succeed at something is an exciting milestone. Nearly all the testimonials
from parents of LD children relay that the children couldn't wait to show Dad their new-found skills. What a
confidence booster!
We would like our pages to be a resource for parents of learning disabled children. Please CLICK HERE to share your thoughts,
ideas or resources.
Our Thoughts on The Matter...
In their article to the Learning Disabilities Quarterly Scruggs and Mastropieri evaluated the results of mnemonic instruction
in learning disabilities intervention, and concluded, "mnemonic instruction delivers the greatest learning increases seen in
the history of learning disabilities intervention research."
CLICK HERE to read entire article.
Dyslexia Online. Online magazine offering information on and resources for dyslexia.