If your child has been recently diagnosed and educational therapy is recommended, your child my benefit from working with an educational therapist.  An educational therapist is a professional who combines educational and therapeutic approaches for evaluation, remediation, case management and advocacy on behalf of children, adolescents and adults with learning challenges.  Educational Therapists have an extensive background in developmental psychology in order to identify how an individual is functioning within their developmental and learning milestones.

Educational therapy demystifies learning problems and stimulates a client’s awareness of their strengths so they can use those strengths to overcome areas of difficulties. The treatment plan may utilize information from a variety of sources including the student’s social, emotional, psychoeducational and neuropsychological background. Milestones Educational Therapy offers evidence based programs for both, individuals who are experiencing challenges and to enrich gifted students.  Our goal is to help all students enhance their level of autonomy in all areas of learning and development.

Consistency and intensity are important predictors of success in educational therapy therefore a minimum of twice weekly sessions are recommended to achieve therapeutic goals.  All sessions are implemented in a one-to-one format for 50 minutes.

MILESTONES SPECIALIZED PROGRAMS

Milestones Educational Therapy Institute offers several evidence based programs for children who are experiencing difficulties and to enrich gifted students.

Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE)

Auditory Memory for Quick Stories
Hearbuilder
Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE)

R.O.P.E.S. for Improved Executive Function
Technology for Organization and Planning
Organizing Thinking
Seeing My Time

Math U See
Big Brainz
Common Core Strategies
On Cloud Nine ®

Hearbuilder – Auditory Memory
Processing and Cognitive Enhancement (PACE)

Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS) ®
Lindamood-Bell Seeing Stars  ®
Lindamood-Bell Visualization & Verbalization  ®
Master the Code
Read Naturally
RAVE-O
Wilson Reading System
Zoo Phonics

Handwriting Without Tears
Step Up to Writing
Writing Adventures

Milestones offers virtual, one-to-one, educational therapy in the convenience of your home through our HIPPA compliant portal.

We offer subject specific tutoring for students that require a hybrid approach of educational therapy and tutoring to meet academic goals.

PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Group 1: Non-Reader

  • Are not familiar with letters in the alphabet
  • Cannot recognize letters in their name
  • Cannot produce letter sounds

Group 2: Emergent (Pre-Readers)

  • Pretend to read 
  • Are familiar with letter names, but do not know all the letters in the alphabet 
  • Can identify some letter sounds
  • Can write their own name

Group 3: Beginning Readers

  • Knows most letters in the alphabet
  • Can identify many of the sounds in a word
  • Have a few sight words down
  • Can “sound out” unfamiliar words
  • Can retell a story when looking at the pages of a book that you previously read to them.

Students will develop skills to prepare them for kindergarten. These skills include:

  • Number identification
  • Count orally to 100 by ones
  • Writing numbers
  • Understanding the concepts of greater than, less than, or equal to
  • Know and describe shapes
  • One to one correspondence

Decades of rigorous research from Harvard University shows that children’s earliest experiences play a critical role in brain development. High quality early intervention services can change a child’s developmental trajectory and improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.