Final Assignment
NILD-Level 1
In the book, “A Work of His Grace”, Grace Mutzabaugh explains how she establishes the first educational therapy program, which is now called the National Institute of Learning Development (NILD). Grace incorporated many distinct core techniques that are still used today in the NILD Educational Therapy. The NILD instructors guide says, “NILD uses interactive language and dynamic intervention to develop core academic skills and higher order processing through:
• Explicit and intentional instruction
• Inductive reasoning and Socratic questioning
• Guided practice and systematic feedback
• Self-regulation and transfer “(NILD Distinctives, 2007).
The NILD Therapy is not a tutorial, compensatory approach to learning, …show more content…
Dictation and Copy
5. Math Block
These fundamental techniques have not changed in any substantial way from when Grace developed it in 1973, when compensatory programs were taught everywhere. However, Paget Luria, Vygotsky and Feuerstein developed important theories of learning that are incorporated with NILD techniques. Now, we have a better understanding of the effectiveness these techniques have on brain functioning and its connection to learning.
Educational Therapy stimulates deficit areas in the brain and uses Interactive Language and Dynamic Intervention. In the first distinctive, Interactive Language, a dialogue is developed between the therapist and student that allows the student to organize their language to tell, how, why and what. Educational Therapists learn how to ask appropriate questions and the students learn how to reflect upon their thinking processes and defend their answers. This leads to the second distinctive, Dynamic Intervention, which is unscripted and leads the student to wonder and reflect. The third distinctive is to Develop Core Academic Skills and Higher Order Processing, such as, reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and …show more content…
Compensation helps students work around deficit areas by using their strengths. According to Debbie Parks (2018), a Professionally Certified Educational Therapist, tutoring helps to reteach the student what they did not master in the classroom and only treat the symptoms and typically focuses on content (Parks, 2018). With both of these approaches, the student is limited on what they can learn independently. Educational therapy wants to know why that student could not master the material on their own, and teaches them how to become independent, successful learners. Students’ are trained just above their level of functioning to overcome their learning weaknesses. Working within the framework of the students’ strengths and weaknesses, skills are
NILD-Level 1
In the book, “A Work of His Grace”, Grace Mutzabaugh explains how she establishes the first educational therapy program, which is now called the National Institute of Learning Development (NILD). Grace incorporated many distinct core techniques that are still used today in the NILD Educational Therapy. The NILD instructors guide says, “NILD uses interactive language and dynamic intervention to develop core academic skills and higher order processing through:
• Explicit and intentional instruction
• Inductive reasoning and Socratic questioning
• Guided practice and systematic feedback
• Self-regulation and transfer “(NILD Distinctives, 2007).
The NILD Therapy is not a tutorial, compensatory approach to learning, …show more content…
Dictation and Copy
5. Math Block
These fundamental techniques have not changed in any substantial way from when Grace developed it in 1973, when compensatory programs were taught everywhere. However, Paget Luria, Vygotsky and Feuerstein developed important theories of learning that are incorporated with NILD techniques. Now, we have a better understanding of the effectiveness these techniques have on brain functioning and its connection to learning.
Educational Therapy stimulates deficit areas in the brain and uses Interactive Language and Dynamic Intervention. In the first distinctive, Interactive Language, a dialogue is developed between the therapist and student that allows the student to organize their language to tell, how, why and what. Educational Therapists learn how to ask appropriate questions and the students learn how to reflect upon their thinking processes and defend their answers. This leads to the second distinctive, Dynamic Intervention, which is unscripted and leads the student to wonder and reflect. The third distinctive is to Develop Core Academic Skills and Higher Order Processing, such as, reading, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and …show more content…
Compensation helps students work around deficit areas by using their strengths. According to Debbie Parks (2018), a Professionally Certified Educational Therapist, tutoring helps to reteach the student what they did not master in the classroom and only treat the symptoms and typically focuses on content (Parks, 2018). With both of these approaches, the student is limited on what they can learn independently. Educational therapy wants to know why that student could not master the material on their own, and teaches them how to become independent, successful learners. Students’ are trained just above their level of functioning to overcome their learning weaknesses. Working within the framework of the students’ strengths and weaknesses, skills are