How is ET different from tutoring?

Tutoring focuses on:

• treating the symptoms

• academic content

• teaching what to think

• the product (i.e. passing a test)

Educational Therapy focuses on:

• building the learning processes

• the individual deficit areas

• teaching how to learn

• developing language and thinking through effective questioning

• remediating the underlying skills essential for learning, such as:

  • visual processing, figure-ground, attention, sequencing, tracking, and memory

  • auditory processing, figure-ground, attention, sequencing, and memory

  • inter-modal perception (the coordination or integration of information from two or more senses, such as touch and vision)

  • self-regulation and executive functioning

  • language comprehension