Welcome

"It is not how smart you are, but how you are smart."

Dr. Howard Gardner, educator and author

My Multilayered Approach to Academic Success

The pre-teen and teen years can be challenging under the best of circumstances.  For adolescents with learning differences, life may become even more complex.  As an Educational Therapist, I guide elementary, middle, high school, and college students towards understanding and appreciating their unique brains.  My practice offers a wide range of individualized interventions that are designed to remediate these specific learning issues.

I guide the student towards educational success by helping the student to:

• Recognize academic strengths and challenges

• Build executive functioning skills

• Develop learning strategies based on the student’s learning styles

• Build self-confidence, self-awareness, and self-efficacy

• Engage in the learning process by understanding how he or she thinks

• Learn to organize and manage time

• Incorporate a set of thinking, problem solving, and self-control skills

By working together, we can help them become active and engaged learners through:

• Assessments:  Formal and informal

• Synthesis of information from other allied professionals

• Development and implementation of a structured remedial program

• Creation of strategies that address emotional and social challenges as they relate to learning challenges

• Form a  supportive collaboration  among the student, parents, Educational Therapist, and other professionals

• Facilitate communication amongst the student’s support team members