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What types of learning problems can beneï¬t from services from Peninsula Educational Services?

 

Dyslexia
Asperger’s Syndrome
William’s Syndrome
Low Intelligence
Math and Reading Disorders
Receptive and Expressive Language difï¬culties
Reading disorders
Study and Organizational Skills		 Weak Writing Skills
Problems with spelling and decoding
Attention and cognitive disorders
Low self-esteem
Weak math calculation skills
Weak reading comprehension
Short attention span
Problems focusing and concentrating

 


What is Educational Therapy and Special Education Tutoring?

An educational therapy or special education tutoring session is a one to one or small group and is designed to follow a educational plan developed by reviewing the ï¬le, or derived from a screening, or from recent psycho-educational testing. The educational therapy or tutoring program should be reviewed every three months to determine if the plan is working. The way to evaluate progress is through informal assessment or formal testing to see how skills are improving and progressing. Parent consultation is needed on an ongoing basis to determine if the child is progressing. Educational therapy can involve skill building or teaching the child skills needed to be successful in school and in the subject areas of reading, writing, math, and study skills. In some cases, the educational therapy program will support and teach skills needed to complete homework, writing assignments, or help prepare a student for a test. For older students, time management and organizational skills will also be taught.

What is Cognitive Skills Training and how can it beneï¬t your child?

Cognitive Skills Training is a systematic, structured approach aimed at improving cognitive, language, perceptual, and attention skills for children ages 5 - 13. Andrea Shor developed the Cognitive Skills Training Program after her training with the Learning Potential Assessment Device, a language and culture free assessment for children with executive processing disorders, low intelligence, or attention and language weaknesses. Nine years after her training in 1990, she created a curriculum and skill sequence to teach children how to learn and generalize basic language and perceptual concepts. The Cognitive Skills Training Program uses the principles of schema learning from the work of the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget, the ideas of mediated and facilitated learning experiences , and the cutting edge research from neuroscience claiming that the brain is a malleable and changeable organ, and that neural changes can occur when learning is presented in a systematic, intensive, unfamiliar, and innovative manner. The CST program is also influenced by the work of Dr. Joseph Chiltern Pearce, scientist, who claims that children can learn more deeply through play and nurturing experiences which help the brain to generalize and integrate old learning with new learning. The CST program is also influenced by the work of Candance Pert Ph.d and Bruce LIpton, Ph.d who claim that beliefs and learning take place at the neuro-peptide and cellular level and that beliefs and learning can be changed by changing the sub-conscious mind. The CST program incorporates mindful meditative exercises into the curriculum to help the child’s sub-conscious mind absorb and receive and accept learning strategies during the CST session.
The child who beneï¬ts from the CST program may present with a cognitive inflexibility or difï¬culty absorbing and retaining language or perceptual concepts. Children identiï¬ed with non-verbal learning disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome, attention deï¬cit/hyperactivity disorders, or low intelligence can beneï¬t from the CST training as many of these children can be described as rigid or inflexible thinkers. Children who have had many years of skill building and tutoring, yet do not consistently retain or generalize the skills that have been taught, are also excellent candidates for Cognitive Skills Training. 
 
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