Tutoring for Children with Special Needs
We provide tutoring for children with special needs, including learning differences, mental health challenges, and executive functioning issues such as ADHD. Our private tutors for children with special needs are licensed clinical psychologists with specific training and expertise special needs tutoring. This page provides an overview of what we do.
Information for Parents
Learn more about the unique qualifications our private tutors for children with special needs have, and how we can help your child succeed and reach their potential despite any differences in how they learn.
Information for Teachers
Leran how our model for tutoring children with special needs works, how you can incorporate it into your classroom, and what it can provide your students. We’d also love your insight and input as we continually improve our services.
About Tutoring for Children with Special Needs
What Exactly Are Therapeutic Tutoring Services?
While every child has the potential to learn and achieve in school, factors including stress and anxiety, self-esteem, motivation, mental health diagnoses, and self-concept affect how much a child can access his or her strengths and apply them in the school setting. Unfortunately, when these emotional factors present barriers, a child may avoid homework, become hesitant in expressing creativity, or experience disruptions in focus and motivation that can lead to poor performance. Our trained private tutors for children with special needs can provide advanced and innovative help.
Enter Tutoring for Children with Special Needs
Specialized tutoring for children with special needs can help your child overcome obstacles to reaching his or her potential in school. Combining cutting edge theories about learning and education with the clinical psychological process, therapeutic tutoring can have powerful and lasting results. Our private tutors for children with special needs are in demand as this approach gains in popularity and parents and teachers see the amazing results.
Who are our Private Tutors for Children with Special Needs
Therapeutic tutors are usually psychologists who have experience in school settings and training in education. They work with children of any school age to address any underlying factors holding the student back from reaching their potential. The results of tutoring for children with special needs usually include a decrease in distress and frustration regarding school and schoolwork, and an increase in performance and achievement.
In each session, emotional factors that are creating a barrier to educational achievement are explored and addressed, and then specific educational exercises are undertaken to practice the newly uncovered or re-found skills and talents that were hidden or pushed under the surface. Individual sessions with a private tutor for children with special needs usually start weekly, becoming less frequent as the child begins to overcome the barriers that were present. The eventual goal is that capabilities and strengths are accessed, and strategies are learned to ensure lasting changes. The effects of specialized tutoring for children with special needs are seen very quickly for most children. Even though some longer-standing issues may be stubborn to resolve, therapeutic tutoring is designed to find solutions even while some underlying symptoms persist.
The Role of Parents and the School in Tutoring for Children with Special Needs
The family plays a vital role in our services. A private tutor for children with special needs will need to fully understand your child and will rely on you to pass along your thoughts about the origins of the barriers he or she faces. Your child will want to show you the gains he or she has made, and the therapeutic tutor will work to find many you can help your child make these improvements permanent. One of the true benefits of tutoring for children with special needs is reducing tension and conflict at home as it relates to homework avoidance and impaired achievement at school.
Close rapport with the school is an important part our services, and this is where private tutors for children with special needs often outdistance other options. Many of the changes and improvements your child will experience will be based on new ways he or she views him or herself in the context of school and learning. There are therefore important ways the teachers can play an integral part in nurturing these changes. Your child will also learn specific strategies to reach goals involving motivation, focus, concentration, organization, and relaxation. Teachers can work to deepen the effect of these skills.
Starting Tutoring for Children with Special Needs
Individual therapeutic tutoring sessions usually start weekly, allowing the psychologist to get to know the child and understand the thoughts and feelings that are getting in the way of the child showing his or her true potential. In many cases the tutoring in these initial sessions is also used to help the child truly catch up academically so that he or she is not so far behind that anxiety and stress will interfere with the therapeutic tutoring process.
For many children, therapeutic tutoring becomes less frequent as the child begins to overcome the barriers that were present. The eventual goal is that capabilities and strengths are accessed, and strategies are learned to ensure that changes are lasting. Some children, however, continue to benefit from weekly sessions if our services are providing an adjunct to school that cannot be simply eliminated.
When you first call, we’ll talk to you about how to prepare your child for beginning their work with us, and we’ll make sure we fully understand your hopes and goals for the engagement.
Private Tutors for Children with Special Needs: Expeceted Results
For most children, the effects of special needs tutoring are seen very quickly. Even though some longer standing issues related may be stubborn in resolving, therapeutic tutoring is designed to find solutions even while some underlying symptoms persist. For example, our services may not eliminate all the anxiety a child has about school or about test taking specifically, but it will create enough relief and reduction in intensity to allow the child to show what he or she can really do.
By about the fifth session, when the psychologist has really come to know the child and is now providing academic tutoring within a framework that reduces psychological symptoms during the learning process, parents and teachers usually begin to see noticable improvement. The child will not only seem more confident and relaxed, but academic scores and measures will start to improve as well. Many parents choose to schedule a school meeting after 6-10 weeks of starting with us to hear what results the school is seeing.
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Special Needs Tutoring Techniques
Special needs tutoring refers to educational support provided to students who have physical, mental, or emotional disabilities that affect their ability to learn in a traditional classroom setting. Our private tutors for children with special needs are trained to adapt teaching methods, materials, and pace to meet the unique needs of each student. The goal is to help the student succeed academically, develop confidence, and improve skills in areas such as reading, writing, math, and social interaction.
Private tutors for children with special needs might work on specific goals tailored to the student’s abilities, using strategies like visual aids, hands-on activities, or assistive technology. Special needs tutoring can cater to a variety of conditions, such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia, or learning disabilities, among others. It’s designed to create a supportive, structured, and personalized learning environment for each student.
Special Needs Tutoring Methods
There are a variety of strategies that special needs tutors can use to help students succeed, depending on the individual’s unique needs. Here are some common ones:
1. Break Tasks into Smaller Steps
- Why it helps: Breaking assignments or instructions into smaller, manageable parts can reduce overwhelm and allow the student to focus on one thing at a time.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Instead of saying “Write an essay,” the tutor might break it down to: “First, brainstorm ideas,” then “Create an outline,” followed by “Write an introduction.”
2. Use Visual Aids
- Why it helps: Many students with learning disabilities, especially those with dyslexia or ADHD, benefit from visual learning. It can provide a clearer understanding of abstract concepts.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Using charts, diagrams, color-coded notes, flashcards, or pictures to illustrate concepts.
3. Positive Reinforcement
- Why it helps: Providing praise and rewards for progress or good behavior can motivate students and build their self-esteem.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Offering verbal praise (“Great job!”) or a sticker chart after completing a task.
4. Use Multi-Sensory Learning
- Why it helps: Engaging multiple senses (sight, sound, touch) helps strengthen learning and memory, especially for students with dyslexia or sensory processing disorders.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: We may use physical objects (like counting blocks) while explaining concepts, or audiobooks alongside printed text.
5. Repetition and Review
- Why it helps: Many students with special needs require additional repetition to fully grasp new information. Frequent review also reinforces retention.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Reviewing previously covered material at the start of each session or practicing skills regularly.
6. Use of Assistive Technology
- Why it helps: Tools like text-to-speech software, speech recognition programs, or specialized apps can support students who have challenges with reading, writing, or organization.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Programs like Grammarly, Read&Write, or apps that help with word prediction or math problem-solving.
7. Establish a Routine
- Why it helps: Predictability and structure help students feel safe and organized, which is especially important for those with autism or ADHD.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Starting each session at the same time, with a consistent schedule of activities.
8. Flexible Teaching Styles
- Why it helps: Recognizing that each student learns differently means adapting the teaching approach. Some students may benefit from more hands-on, interactive experiences, while others may need more auditory or visual stimulation.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Some students might prefer learning through games, while others might need more quiet, individual instruction.
9. Simplified Language
- Why it helps: Using simple, clear, and direct language makes instructions and concepts easier to understand, particularly for students with language or cognitive delays.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Instead of saying, “Can you please complete this set of instructions for your reading homework?” we might say, “Please read the next paragraph, then answer the questions below.”
10. Peer Support or Pairing
- Why it helps: Sometimes, pairing a student with another peer can create opportunities for social learning and cooperation.
- Special Needs Tutoring Example: Pairing a student with another who has similar goals or strengths can make tasks more engaging and less isolating.
Each strategy is tailored based on the student’s needs and learning style, with the ultimate goal of helping them achieve their full potential in a supportive and understanding environment.
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