Issues Treated with Educational Therapy
Educational therapy can help address a number of learning and attention issues, including:
- ADHD
- Dyslexia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyspraxia
- Dyscalculia
- Executive functioning issues
- Sensory processing issues
- Visual processing issues
- Nonverbal learning disabilities
Common Signs & Indicators
Your child may benefit from our services if you recognize any of the following:
Reading Issues:
Preschool Reading
- Mixing up the sounds and syllables in long words for example “mawn lower” instead of “lawn mower”
- Has more difficulty than other children pronouncing words, like saying “basgetti” for spaghetti
- May be slow to add new vocabulary words and be unable to recall the right word
- May have trouble learning the alphabet, numbers, days of the week, colors, shapes, etc.
School Age Reading
- Has difficulty reading single words that are not surrounded by other words
- Slow to learn the connection between letters and sounds
- Confuses small words such as “at” and “to” or “does” with “goes”
- Consistently makes reading and spelling errors, that include any of the following:
-Letter reversals such as “d” for “b”
-Word reversals like “tip” for “pit”
- Inversions such as confusions between “m” and “w” or “u” and “n”
- Transpositions like mixing up “felt” and “left”
- Substitutions such as “house” and “home”
- Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading:
-Guesses based on shape or context
-Skips or misreads prepositions (at, to, of)
-Ignores suffixes
-Can’t sound out unknown words
- Often can’t remember sight words (they, were, does) or homonyms (their, they’re, and there)
- Over sensitive to sounds or easily interrupted
- Avoids reading
- Reads at a level lower than their peers despite good instruction at school
- Poor recall of information
Writing Issues:
School Age Writing
- Slow non-automatic handwriting
- Avoids copying information from the board
- Difficulty learning cursive
- Has terrible spelling
- May spell the same word differently on the same page.
- Makes consistent spelling errors
- Uses limited vocabulary when writing
- Doesn’t elaborate or describe
- Has a hard time expressing his/her ideas in writing
- Avoids writing
- Essays lack organization
- Delayed reading
- Poor recall of information
Math Issues:
Preschool Math
- Doesn’t count-on, always starts with 1
- Difficulty determining sequence
- Slow to learn numbers and how they relate to quantity
- Difficulty discerning between coins
- Slow to identify patterns, or know what comes next
- Doesn’t sort objects by size, color, or type
School Age Math
- Slow to develop counting and math problem-solving skills
- Good memory for printed words, but difficulty reading numbers, or recalling numbers in sequence
- Good with general math concepts, but inaccurately computes or writes and organization skills need to be used to solve problems
- Finds concepts like trading or borrowing very difficult
- Trouble with the concept of time, they may be late often, have difficulty remembering schedules, trouble with approximating how long something will take, avoids transitions
- Poor sense of direction, easily disoriented and easily confused by changes in routine
- Can do math functions one day, but is unable to repeat them the next day
- Poor mental math ability
- Avoids playing strategy games or has difficulty keeping score
Executive Functioning, & Time Management Issues:
School Age Executive Function
- Has difficulty sustaining attention long enough, especially to boring, tedious, or repetitive tasks.
- Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork or other activities.
- Doesn’t follow through on instructions or slow to transition between tasks
- Often loses things necessary to complete a task or doesn’t turn in assignments
- Has a hard time getting started on things and has a poor sense of time
- May be overwhelmed easily, give up too soon, be forgetful, or frustrate easily
- Often has difficulty awaiting their turnand/or may blurt out an answer before question has been completed
- Weak problem solving skills and/or poor judgment