How Educational Therapy Works
Your needs are paramount.
As Educational Therapists, we work in a treatment alliance, acting as your partners who help you communicate your needs to school, work, family, and your treatment team.
Just as no two clients are the same, there is no standard “recipe” or one-size-fits-all approach to Educational Therapy. Our approach focuses on the individual’s needs.
This is what the process looks like:
First: we review your psycho-educational testing, if you have any. We’ll go over your grades or performance reviews with you, and any other documents you want to share with us.
Next: we speak to all concerned partners in your success.
Then: we form a set of goals with you and begin work to change your habits and optimize your skills.
Finally: once we demonstrate the skill and you rehearse it, we’ll watch as you practice the skills until you can do them without us. When all your goals have been reached, you’ll leave Educational Therapy stronger than you were before. Don’t worry – we won’t leave you all alone! You are always welcome to check in with us on an as-needed basis if new challenges arise.
When it takes more than a tutor
You may have worked with tutors in the past but are still having problems learning. This is because tutoring, while helpful, is passive and does not address the fundamental causes of learning issues.
Educational Therapy helps you understand the way you learn, so you can do so more successfully.
If you would like more information on the practicums, supervision, and thousands of hours of training it takes to become a certified Educational Therapist, visit www.aetonline.org to find out what The Association of Educational Therapists considers the foundational skills of our profession.
Our practice
Our clinical practice specializes in helping adults in college, graduate school, and in the professional arena with learning issues and/or diagnosed and undiagnosed learning disabilities.
As Educational Therapists, we are trained to remediate executive function deficits, reading issues like dyslexia and poor comprehension, and writing issues.
We also coach individuals in their organization of time, materials, and projects.
Some of these individuals may be twice exceptional. For example, an individual may be on the Autism spectrum but have a very high IQ. Others may have non-verbal disabilities that present problems in fields like media, finance, computer science, and IT.
We facilitate learning, often in situations where trauma or traumatic life events have put extraordinary pressure on a client’s ability to succeed.
We work in treatment alliance with doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, psychologists, schools, human resources departments, and family units. Our goal is to facilitate communication among all the client’s supporters and therapeutic team.
Our goals
The client’s goals become our goals.
We want to create a scaffolded progression of skills that leads our clients toward personal growth.
We work to replace a lack of confidence with the ability to perform and understand when to use necessary skills.
We help each client create an actionable path to success, self-advocacy, agency, and independence.
What next?
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