What is Christian Educational Therapy?
Christian Educational Therapy has three components. Primarily. It is a diagnostic teaching center for students who have exhibited learning difficulties, attention difficulties, and/or special needs. Secondly, it provides partial or complete psycho-educational testing, and lastly, it educates through training sessions for administrators and teachers (Continued Education Unites), as well as parents, who teach students with learning disabilities or differences.
What makes Christian Educational Therapy different from other tutorial centers?
Christian Educational Therapy utilizes internationally acclaimed programs with over 25 years experience in specialized learning techniques. These techniques are personalized to the students’ interests, attention spans, temperaments, abilities, and strengths to create an "Individual Educational Prescription". This is then tailored to the way God has created each student, versus having the student become "boxed-in" to the program it provides. This kind of therapy allows for accelerated successes in areas of need, while building upon a student’s esteem. (Students have gained 5 grade levels on one year!)
Christian Educational Therapy is renowned for it’s services in California:
Christian Educational Therapy is renowned for services that provide answers.
Having accurate answers as well as understanding of a client’s individual needs,
empowers a client in identification in Jesus Christ (Psalm 139) with the ability
to build upon their hope for tomorrow (Jeremiah 29:11). Christian Educational
Therapy has been blessed to serve clients outside of California in the East
Coast, but has become renowned for serving clients throughout California from as
far north as the San Francisco area to as far south as San Diego. Renowned for
provision of “Individualized Educational Prescriptions”, which are strategies
and techniques tailored to the client’s individual strengths and weaknesses.
Strategies and techniques are then developed which can be used immediately with
immediate results in academic or work areas and throughout their educational and
work years.
What is psycho-educational testing?
Psycho-educational testing provides information on a student’s strengths and weaknesses. The combination of assessments allows the specialist to understand why a student is having difficulties in a subject or in an academic setting. Complete psyho-educational testing involves the following: Ability (IQ, verbal and performance intelligence and abilities), Processing (how a student learns). Perception (how a student takes information into the brain). Memory (short-term, long-term, sequential). Attention (deficits, focus difficulties, distractibility) and a student’s academic subjects as compared to others the same age and grade nationally.
How will results of the testing be communicated to me?
A two-hour meeting will be scheduled in which the results from the testing will be discussed and a written comprehensive report will be provided. The report will contain detailed results of the testing and what they mean, how the results affect the student’s success in school and a description of the student’s strengths and weaknesses. Detailed recommendations will be given that are individually tailored to the design for ultimate academic success. These recommendations will be given for all subjects in the school and for the home environment.
What training does Christian Educational Therapy provide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents?
Training is given in small groups or individually. The training sessions are 3 - 6 hours long. Some of the sessions will provide Continued Education Units from the Associated Christian Schools International accreditation. Following are some of the training topics:
How to begin and keep a special needs program.
How to assess a special need student, and look at his or her strengths and weaknesses come into play with his or her academic success.
The "Red Flags" that indicate a possible learning disability, difference, or special need.
The "Ten Commandments" of teaching students with special needs.
Teaching students how to study for tests, become organized and pace their assignments.
The fine line between challenging your students or breaking their spirits?
Multi-sensory approaches to teaching students with special needs.