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United States:

In September of 1991, the oldest son of a single mother of 4 ran into problems at the school he was attending. His teacher stated that her son had a learning problem.   Not willing to put her son on drugs, she started tutoring him at home and eventually pulled him out of school to home school him. Within a month, after telling a few friends what she was doing, she was home-schooling 11 students in her small apartment.

She then got her students involved in the local Way to Happiness® Club carrying out volunteer projects to help her community. In 1998 Members of the club stated that a tutoring service should be started as that would have a long lasting impact on the community. Hearing of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, H.E.L.P. (an Applied Scholastics community program), she flew out to the headquarters to be trained as a tutor and returned to start H.E.L.P. Miami as an extension of her Home Schooling program.   This new literacy project surpassed all other similar projects in terms of the tutoring hours that first week. In 1999, she returned to H.E.L.P. headquarters with 4 of her students to get them trained as tutors because of the quantity of students now requiring tutoring.

In 2002, her 17 year old son had huge success teaching a 10 year old who could not read at all. Within 12 weeks, the child was reading at a 3 rd grade level. The mother of this 10 year old girl had spent thousands on psychologists and tests as well as had her daughter enrolled in 3 of the best private schools in Miami, however it was the Study Technology delivered at her own dining room table by H.E.L.P. Miami's founder that got the results.   So impressed with the results, the mother requested to become partners to really expand the program to help make a difference in other parents' and childrens' lives. In 2003 they opened up H.E.L.P.   Miami at a local mall and it became a huge success. To this day, they have continual walk-ins and the word-of-mouth keeps their center at capacity.

H.E.L.P. Miami was shown on Telemundo's Rojo Vivo as part of a story about children with learning disabilities.   One girl who had been tutored stated: "In my other school, I would daydream and was bored...but here at H.E.L.P., I have learned how to study and I no longer have problems with study." Another girl age 12 said, "I took those drugs (Concerta, Ritalin) and they made me not care and made me numb...I was not myself.   Now, I am off those drugs and am learning.   This is ME talking...not medication and I am saying 'Don't put your kids on drugs!' bring them here to learn!"

H.E.L.P. Miami and the H.E.L.P.   Home Education Program are currently servicing 65 students per week with over 1,500 tutoring hours.

South Africa:

A major problem across the world today is translating knowledge about a subject into ability to do a job .   Such is the problem in South Africa with graduates of a bachelor of commerce degree course.   Guarantee Trust of South Africa solved the problem with Study Technology.

In 2000, accountant Kevin Wakely-Smith and his partner Alan Murray, owners of Guarantee Trust Holdings, realized that there was a gap in the accounting industry. This gap was competent trainee accountants. To this end, they put in a proposal to an accounting and financial services organization with the aim of training 20 students.   This proposal was approved and in June 2001 the training started.   Guarantee Trust took historically disadvantaged accounting graduates (with a diploma or degree), put them through a five month work-readiness program and then placed them into the accounting industry for a three year learnership, which is their next step in becoming qualified as accountants.

Such was the initial success of the program in getting all the students placed that they now have branches in Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria with hundreds applying to be a part of the training program. 

A major factor in their success is not only providing training that raises the ability of the trainees, but they also place the graduates into accounting firms and they are lauded by these firms for the competence of their graduates.

To date they have trained 420 such graduates. 80% of these graduates have been placed on 3-year learnerships and a further 10% have been placed in commerce and industry.

Guarantee Trust continues to deliver a Work-Readiness Program for hundreds of graduates across South Africa.

India:

The International Freedom Corps is a California based group of pioneering volunteers consisting of 6 seasoned Applied Scholastics trainers and 8 youth from Applied Scholastics schools who are well schooled in Study Technology and now also trained as trainers.   They traveled to Hyderabad, India at the request of a director of Gateway International High School.  

In celebration of the visit, the school held an event for over 200 people where Study Technology was presented and featured in newspapers and TV across the state.

The students in the school were then given instruction on how to become self-learners from the Learning How to Learn book, while the teachers were instructed on how to develop a student's ability to learn with Applied Scholastics tools and strategies.

Coinciding with this was the inauguration of the school's new building. Around 10 politicians came and all were introduced to Study Technology.    Now the principal has requested to become a part of the Applied Scholastics network of schools.

Success stories:

I really gained the knowledge of the process of learning anything and how to help others to learn if they run into difficulties with 3 different barriers of Learning How to Learn program. (L.Ron Hubbard has done excellent work in this area which I never thought that there (were) many things I don't know as a part of teaching and learning.)

Thanks to International Freedom Corps of imparting this Study Technology program (An Applied Scholastics International pgm.)

- School Director

First of all I would like to say that this is the best training to the teachers. With this training we can make ourselves the best. We can improve self-confidence, courage and coping with talent.

With this training we can understand student skills and give them the best teaching, making both the students and ourselves perfect.

- Teacher

It is really great that L. Ron Hubbard has noticed the problems of the children and explained to us how to handle it.

- Student

I was unable to learn before because the barriers to learning stopped me from doing so. But now I know how to get rid of them so that I could learn easily.

- Student

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