When your child is struggling with academics, there is an underlying reason. Unlike tutoring that treats the symptoms of academic issues, educational therapy gets to the root of the problem, which usually lies in one or more cognitive areas called processing skills.
Those processing skills might include the following:
- Auditory Processing: to process sounds.
- Auditory Discrimination: to hear differences in sounds such as loudness, pitch, duration, and phonemes.
- Auditory Segmenting: to break apart words into their separate sounds.
- Auditory Blending: to blend individual sounds to form words.
- Auditory Analysis: to determine the number, sequence, and sounds in a word.
- Divided Attention: to attend to and handle two or more tasks at one time.
- Processing Speed: the speed at which the brain processes information.
- Saccadic Fixation: to move the eyes accurately and quickly from one point to another.
- Sensory-Motor Integration: to have the sensory skills work well with the motor skills.
- Sequential Processing: to process chunks of information received one after another.
- Simultaneous Processing: to process information received all at once.
- Sustained Attention: to stay on task.
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ACADEMICS
Reading, Spelling, Math, Science, Social Studies,
Creative Writing, Geography, Health, Bible, History
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PROCESSING SKILLS
Visual Memory, Auditory Memory, Attention,
Response Speed, Visual/Auditory Discrimination,
Language, Motor Co-ordination, Sequencing
Rather than tutoring a student in individual subjects, Pathways to Success strives to get to the root of the problem using the NILD approach.