Educational Therapy:
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| This type of therapy is ideal for the student (or adult) who has an average to above average IQ, but struggles in one or more areas academically, organizationally, or in the area of focus and attention. |
Unlike tutoring, therapy can address such issues as:
- Auditory processing disorder
- Dyslexia (including severe)
- Written or verbal expression challenges
- Poor spelling
- Sequencing struggles
- Executive control dysfunction (trouble with strategies, solving new problems, setting future goals, etc.)
- Reading challenges
- Poor working memory (visual and auditory)
- Poor long-term memory retention
Some of these areas are so severe that they impact every level of classroom learning and testing. Others are not measured by standard academic testing, and so may be missed by the school system or parents because it “appears they are just not working up to their potential”.
Educational therapy is not “teaching to a child’s strengths”, but addressing and stimulating a student’s deficits so that they can become strong and balanced in all areas. NILD educational therapy works to restore a solid base for both perceptual and cognitive skills. The long-term goal is for all learning processes to function efficiently and for the students to become able to learn independently – in the classroom and in life.
What is Educational Therapy?
Therapy Vs. Tutoring
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