Educational Therapy

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What if our kids…. understood their own thinking processes? knew how to apply thinking processes to academics and basic life situations? had the mental tools to tackle concepts and situations they don’t understand? could use their intellects to help control their emotions? Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) takes advantage of structural cognitive modifiability through mediated learning experiences to help all kinds of people excel. Structural cognitive modifiability is another way of saying “brain plasticity”— circumstances, genetics, and illness aren’t the only things that determine intellectual growth and intelligence. Everyone’s brain can continually learn new concepts and skills given the right kinds of stimulation. Mediated learning experiences involve an individual (a mediator) using questions and interactions with learners one-on-one or in small groups to stimulate thinking, vocabulary growth, observation skills, problem solving, and much more. Feuerstein Instruments look like workbooks with unusual exercises, but a trained mediator leads the learner through the workbook with specific goals of developing vocabulary, self-control, and systematic planning behavior among other skills. The learners are led in self- examination to help them determine where they get stuck, where they naturally excel, and how to flexibly discover the correct solutions to problems. Concepts learned through FIE carry over into the classroom, the  home, and extracurricular activities.

Tutor:  Ginger Schollenberger

Price: $700 For group sessions

Location: LWG

One-on-one Feuerstein therapy is available.

Teaching the brain how to learn

NIL is one-on-one individualized intervention, to address the underlying causes of learning difficulties, rather than just the symptoms.  Empowering children to become excellent learners.  By focusing on key components: Cognition, perception, academics, and emotions.  Therapy includes techniques such as Rhythmic writing, Blue Book, Orton Gillingham based phonics instructions, and much more.  These techniques are designed to strengthen weakness in auditory processing, dysgraphia, dyslexia, language processing disorder, visual motor deficit, memory, and executive function.  

Consultation and testing can help determine if therapy is the right fit for the student. 

More information regarding NILD (National Institute for Learning Development) at NILD.org

Tutors:  Kelly Blackman, Sarah Donegan, Ginger Schollenberger

Location: LWG

 To improve directional concepts Rhythmic Writing is educational therapy's backbone, it will help meet any or all of these goals. 

1. To develop the ability to do 2 or more things at the same time.
2. To establish hemispheric specialization for language 

3. To improve visual-motor integration (eye-hand coordination)

4.  To improve directional concepts

5.  To improve visual sequential memory

A  student who has difficulty in the language area will benefit from developing one hemisphere of the brain to be the dominant hemisphere for language. This dominant hemisphere is usually opposite of the child's  dominant hand. When a dominant hemisphere is established for specializing in language, the student becomes more organized in his/her thinking. 

Rhythmic Writing helps to develop hemispheric dominance. 

In addition to developing a dominant hemisphere, it is also important for a  student to integrate both hemispheres of the brain. Crossing the mid-line forces both hemispheres to be involved in the task and thus develops that integration. 

The student's directionality concepts are strengthened as he/she does left/right counts.  

We will also be combining penmanship with this class

We will be doing executive function exercise writing and will use one penmanship book. 

FOR ALL AGES AND GRADES

Tutor: Sarah Donegan

Price: $600

$50 book and supply fee

Class Size: 6 students

Location: LWG

Afterschool or non-LWG days therapy is available.  

See Sarah Donegan for more information