Educational therapy

Learning Therapy is a specialized educational and psychological support for people with learning and performance problems ( LLS). Depending on training and personal preferences of the learning therapist integrates elements from the conversation, behavioral and gestalt therapy, special education, occupational therapy and kinesiology, special PC - learning programs and methods that specifically justified in diagnostically to -learn topic-centered work dialogues on addressing the content focus. The diversity of approaches is based on the learning requirements of the child, his needs, difficulties and strengths as well as its operational objectives. Since learning therapy from the general approach here is a very individual teaching and learning form, it takes place in individual support or in small groups.

When the offered forms of learning therapy is a broad field. Many of the methods and approaches can not be combined with each other and cancel each other - depending on the theoretical and methodological orientation of the institution or therapy practice. Parents and teachers have a special responsibility to learn exactly what and consider what learning therapy for a particular child and the particular learning problem in question comes (see also: Qualitative diagnosis ) about it.

Differences for tuition

Tuition is suitable for students with knowledge gaps in individual subjects, caused by missed classes, a "bad phase " or a change in a more powerful class. Learning Therapy is a non-school support for pupils who have severe difficulties in reading, writing or arithmetic, and in which a basic understanding is demonstrably not or only insufficiently available. There are u.U. the phenomenon, for example with dyscalculia that while children achieve good grades, but still have no substantive understanding of the material. A tuition would in such cases for each new topic to start from scratch, without being able to assume an effective basis. A learning therapeutic promotion creates in contrast to tutoring basic substantive and psychological conditions for a new start in learning. Every good learning therapy is based on an individual's diagnosis that addresses the particular difficulties of the child to work on it. She makes herself so far just not on the current school curriculum dependent. Psycho Euro Tables secondary problems and social integration problems in need of learning therapy - are taken into account and worked with - particularly in their specific context for learning problems. Only methods based on the individuality and special - even on the on the pure substance understanding beyond - are all problems of the individual client, can, in contrast to tuition, which mainly based on the school curriculum will be considered as a learning therapeutically.

Learning Therapy is made mostly of children with dyslexia (LRS ), dyscalculia ( dyscalculia ), cognitive disorders, concentration difficulties (eg with AD ( H) D ) and motivation problems to complete. Some learning therapists who specialize in working with adults.

Reimbursement in special cases

If a child suffers from a chronic disorder and learning at the same time threaten mental disability and social isolation or have already occurred, may, upon request, a learning therapy are funded by the Youth Welfare Office ( § 35a SGB VIII). The regulations are in each province and even within states heavily dependent on the particular youth welfare office, and may differ so. The Youth Welfare Office determined in accordance with statutory provisions, investigations have to be carried out for the purpose of processing the application, the presence of many fixed maximum therapy hourly rates for the treatment and has the parents optionally further to posts for educational assistance. In the case of legal requirements therefore have a statutory entitlement to financial support via the relevant Youth Welfare Office. Health insurance companies have withdrawn from their catalogs since 1998 rehabilitation measures such as learning therapies.

For the tax deductibility an official medical examination before starting treatment must be carried out and a proof of medical necessity of the measure are provided. Some tax without these strict conditions for deductibility.

Qualification of therapists

Qualified therapists learning should have extensive knowledge in their field of expertise (eg dyslexia / dyslexia, dyscalculia, AD (H) D, etc.) and participate regularly even after their training at various training from qualified institutes and universities. This includes ensuring external supervision.

The applied therapeutic methods to be applied in accordance with an individual diagnosis. Benchmark for the content and course is the learning difficulties or disabilities of each client. A good learning therapist recognizes when additional help from other professionals is required ( pediatrician, psychotherapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and others) and pulls it added or refers to it.

The term " learning therapist " is not protected by law in Germany. Reputable educational therapists are thus forced from the outset by their arguments in the case, its occurrence to prove their authentic self-expression and their work that they are working appropriately and successfully. Exists for the clients of the learning therapist or for the clients' parents at the same time the permanent requirement, arguments of the learning therapist before and to assess continuously at baseline and during therapy, and think with in order to avoid failures and disappointments.

Accompanying school measures

Temporary measures that will be taken differentiated depending on the circumstances of the school to support an extracurricular promotion are: exposing the witness note or educational rating, exemption from class work or corresponding internal differentiation, relief at the oral participation and homework as well as ideally adapting the requirements in teaching to individual learning levels. It would be ideal if it ignored the findings of a learning level analysis to be implemented (in the sense of an individual support diagnosis ) and is not easily practiced at a lower level.

For the success of a non-school promotion, it is often critical that students not yet at school with ratings assigned ( notes, praise and blame ) and are committed to a purely results-oriented work (eg, dyscalculia ), although they required no understanding foundations for the own services. In therapy, just the point of view of understanding is to be anchored and transferred to substantive progress in learning. To initiate this process, consideration for acquisitions by the school in many cases are required. A learning and performance requirements other reviews, but without understanding basics, on the other hand usually leads to the aggravation of learning disorder. We also monitor psycho Euro Tables secondary consequences and social disintegration. Learning therapists recommend here advantage of the legal framework as far as possible. The therapist should be switched on in an advisory capacity, where opposite the school, there is a need for counseling. Almost all school laws and especially the regulations for promotions of pupils with SEN include approaches and formulations in order to take policy measures may, if reasonable pedagogical arguments for keeping.