Some children face marked learning challenges – such as dyslexia, processing problems, or attention difficulties.  Their academic challenges seem overwhelming and mysterious to their parents and often to their teachers. Educational therapy diagnoses these difficulties and structures the stairway to success.

Through informal and formal assessment and on-going diagnosis, the educational therapist determines how your child’s brain works. She then offers deep strategies for learning to read and for understanding foundational math.  She helps with issues of pacing; short and long-term memory deficits; integrating the “whole picture” with details and procedures; writing and editing; and managing time, space, materials, and ideas.   

The educational therapist’s job is to help your child be successful by learning to delay gratification, channel energy and impulses, and ultimately to enjoy learning and mastery for its own sake.  In the context of increasingly complex school demands and knowledge of your child’s unique intellectual, attentional, motivational, and vocational needs, the educational therapist helps your child build skill, ego-strength, and self-trust.