What is educational therapy?

Educational therapy is the clinical practice of utilizing specific methods, strategies, tools and approaches to help support academic success in students. A therapist addresses underlying processing skills rather than simply treating the symptoms, as in tutoring. Therapists dive deep to change the structures of the brain to create independent lifelong learning.

Educational therapy is for students who may have learning differences such as:

  • Dyslexia

  • ADHD

  • Difficulties in reading and comprehension or vocabulary weaknesses

  • Difficulties in math

  • Auditory or language processing deficiencies

  • Critical thinking inferential skills

  • Written expression

  • Working memory weakness

Unlocking potential through personalized learning.
Targeted support for thinking, learning, and focus.
Guiding minds through how they learn best.

Therapy

Search and Teach

Kindergarten - 1st grade early intervention

Designed to detect children susceptible to learning difficulties and offer early intervention. It is a prescriptive approach that builds the neuropsychological skills necessary for progress in reading, writing and spelling. All interventions are individualized and prescriptive in response to the needs identified by the TEACH assessment. SEARCH tasks and techniques are selected based on initial testing and adjusted accordingly to progress monitoring. Clusters that are addressed:

  • Visual

  • Visual Motor

  • Auditory

  • Intermodal

  • Orientation in Space

Cogmed

Working memory is the ability to keep information active in the mind for a short period of time and then use it to complete a task. The more information or complexity there is to deal with, the harder it is to remember what to do next without being distracted. Problems with attention and learning are often caused by poor working memory. Estimates of the percentage of weak working memory in students with specific learning differences, including dyslexia and ADHD, ranges from 20-50%. Through engaging and interactive exercises, Cogmed targets key cognitive processes responsible for working memory and attention. The program automatically adapts to each child's unique needs, ensuring continuous challenge and growth over time. The training takes approximately 25-50 minutes per day and is completed over the course of 5-10 weeks.

NILD Educational Therapy

National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) is a language-based educational therapy targeting areas of weakness in processing including auditory and visual, memory, attention, oral and written language, reading, spelling, and math. Students are given tools to enable them to overcome specific learning weaknesses. Tutoring typically focuses on content while educational therapy builds efficient learning processes through exercising and strengthening the brain and the underlying causes of learning difficulties. NILD is accredited by International Dyslexia Association (IDA).

FIE

Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment (FIE), a program developed by psychologist Dr. Reuven Feuerstein, is aimed at supporting and enhancing a student’s cognitive functioning. The program is aimed to target all areas of learning and problem-solving both in the context of school and outside of school. Similar to educational therapy, FIE aims to teach students how to think, rather than what to think and therefore students learn metacognitive strategies to recognize and adjust how they learn. FIE program combines specially designed instruments and mediated learning experiences in order to identify and enhance an individual’s propensity for learning. FIE is especially helpful with the ADHD brain!

RX for Discovery Math

Intervention intended for students whose basic mathematics skills are below expected standards. It is designed to build and strengthen number sense, math fluency, math vocabulary, and problem solving strategies through mediated learning experiences. Conceptual understanding of number, procedural fluency, and problem solving skills are developed.