Educational Therapy
Educational Therapy may mean several sessions to evaluate and understand challenges, or ongoing support in order to mitigate those challenges.
When an individual or a child and their family choose to seek new ways of approaching their challenges the process includes:
- time to understand current issues and develop future goals
- time to learn how to reach their goals
- time to implement their new learning skills and refine them
- time to practice developing the stamina, flexibility and persistence to use their new skills in multiple areas of their lives
- systematic skill development to improve attention and organization, reading fluency and comprehension, mathematical reasoning, or other learning barriers.
Case Management & Records Review
Cindy helps clients to:
- assess the success of remediation strategies currently in place
- evaluate Educational assessments, school records and interviews with in order to plan remediation strategies
- advocate for the child and family in order to receive appropriate services
seek services from specialists
Assessments for Focused Intervention
Assessments commonly administered by Cindy:
- Grey Oral Reading Tests 5 (GORT-5) Reading diagnostics, fluency and comprehension
- Wilson Assessment for Decoding and Encoding (WADE) Reading diagnostics
- Test Of Auditory Processing Skills 3 (TAP-3) Used to assess language skills used in critical thinking)
- Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP) Language skills assessment
- Delis-Kaplan Executive Functioning Scales (D-KEFS)* Cognitive processing skills assessments
- Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking® –Thinking Creatively with Pictures
Cindy uses several informal assessments to unmask asynchronous development, over-excitabilities, gifted traits, reading strategies, and executive functions.