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Educational Therapy: What is it and who can benefit?
Educational therapy seeks to help our clients, whether children or adults, to improve their capacity for independent work and learning. Our clients may be learning disabled, neurodivergent, have suffered educational trauma or have been mismatched and misunderstood at their schools.
Tutors help students master content by reteaching material. Educational Therapists create customized plans to help a client achieve independent functioning at school by using their training in child development, learning disabilities, psychology, and other disciplines that help us teach reading, writing, study skills, comprehension, memory, organization, time and material management. And yes, we are knowledgeable about many curriculum subjects, too.
Change comes slowly, and we can’t guarantee a successful outcome for every student, but over time, our work often helps a student or an adult with a learning difference to become a happier and more successful learner.
Hear more from Susan when she joins as our guest expert on Conversations with CKG this August!
Susan Micari is a board certified educational therapist with over 30 years of experience. She has appeared on the Today Show, has a YouTube channel, an office, and two cats. Her practice is called EdTherapy360, and the website is www. edtherapy360.com. She has facilitated the most important study group in Educational Therapy on the East Coast (according to the Association of Educational Therapists–though they may be a little biased!) from 2006 to 2020. She has supervised candidates for Board Certification for AET and wrote for AET’s quarterly journal on topics in educational therapy for 7 years. She is a licensed reading specialist in the Commonwealth of Virginia and in the state of New York, and has studied organizational psychology through The William Alanson White Institute in NYC.
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