Educational therapy is a comprehensive field. Educational therapists are not tutors with business cards; they are highly-trained educators who must also keep current in many disciplines, including special education, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and education law. They also have experience with the ways emotions can impact learning.

Educational therapy is more than “homework help,” although I do use school assignments as opportunities to help kids work on bigger learning goals. Every piece of work we do becomes a lesson in how a child should attack this kind of work. In time, the student needs me less and less because the lessons of educational therapy have been internalized.

Educational therapy is the solution to school problems.

An old farmer’s saw goes “You can’t fatten a pig by weighing him.” In this age of high-stakes testing, there’s a lot of weighing going on. Lots of people in your child’s life are able to recognize his school problems. You have probably heard them described year after year by classroom teachers, and you may also have sought the help of specialists to understand them.

Proper diagnosis is important and useful, but as you well know, it hasn’t made those problems go away. What makes me different is that I use diagnostic information as a starting point to develop individualized, intensive instruction to help solve children’s school problems.