As education therapists, we are committed to using proven techniques that address your student's specific needs.
Our therapists have been trained in multiple methodologies that offer a holistic approach to addressing learning challenges and can conduct deeper testing to understand a learner's strengths and weaknesses.
NILD (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING DEVELOPMENT)
Application: All ages
Description: NILD has a unique intervention program for struggling learners. This intervention is language-based educational therapy, targeting areas of weaknesses in processing, memory, attention, oral and written language, reading, spelling, and math. NILD is conducted in person.
Further information: www.nild.org
EQUIPPING MINDS
Application: All ages
Description: What separates Equipping Minds from other programs is its brain strengthening exercises and holistic approach. The Equipping Minds’ program uses EyeQ Advantage, primitive reflex exercises, sound therapy, vestibular therapy, in addition to cognitive brain training exercises. Equipping minds can be conducted in person or via Skype.
Further information: www.equippingminds.com
Orton-Gillingham
Application: All ages
Description: The Orton-Gillingham program is a multi-sensory approach to phonics based reading instruction. Using auditory, kinesthetic, and visual learning pathways makes this explicit teaching effective for the remediation of the struggling reader/writer. Sound – symbol associations are taught in a systematic, orderly progression with an emphasis on syllables.
Further information: https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/instructional-strategies/orton-gillingham-what-you-need-to-know
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment (FIE)
Application: Grades 4-12; college students and adults
Description: Unlike remediation, which is the reteaching of specific information, this program seeks to correct the deficiencies in cognitive functions, or thinking skills. Feuerstein basis his instrumental enrichment on the fundamental, and now widely supported, assumption that intelligence is dynamic and modifiable, not static or fixed. Feuerstein’s focus is not what to learn, but rather how to learn.
Further information: https://www.icelp.info/en/home-3/about-us/instrumental-enrichment/
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment – Basic (FIE – BASIC)
Application: Grades Pre-K – 3
Description: Emerging brain research supports Feuerstein’s claims that learning problems may be prevented through early, developmentally appropriate, intervention. FIE BASIC consists of a set of playful learning activities in which teachers “mediate” the development of basic concepts and thinking skills according to the same theories of cognitive modifiability and mediated learning that have made the long existing FIE program so successful. These 10 instruments are taught over a 2 to 4-year period.
Further information: https://www.icelp.info/en/home-3/about-us/early-childhood-curriculum/
Sound Therapy
Sound Therapy is a therapeutic self-help listening program which uses specially recorded, classical music on a portable player with headphones to enhance your ear and brain performance. Using specific algorithms and activation filters it becomes a concentrated program to stimulate the entire auditory pathway, from the eardrum to the auditory cortex.
Further information: www.soundtherapyinternational.com
Primitive Reflex Movement Therapy
Primitive reflexes are physical movements that build muscle and open pathways in the brain during infancy. These reflexes are the first stage required for cognitive and sensory motor development. While primitive reflexes are physical movements, they are indicative of deep brain activity. By further developing these movements through physical exercises, this therapy can create new brain pathways.
Further information: www.pyramidofpotential.com
Testing Services:
For a nominal fee we are prepared to offer standardized testing through the use of the Woodcock-Johnson IV (WJ IV) Test of Achievement. The results of a WJ IV provide valuable data needed to formulate a specific and individualized program for each student. This test is used for screening, diagnosing, and monitoring progress in reading, writing, and mathematics achievement areas.
Other diagnostic instruments are available to assess reading fluency, reading comprehension, phonetics, mathematics, and sensory-motor integration.