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