Educational Therapy in Action

This book provides an in-depth look at what the educational therapist does and how they do it. It goes behind the clinician's door to illustrate the unusual and broad range of interventions that an educational therapist employs.

Dorothy Fink Ungerleider, founding President, Advisory Board Chair, and Fellow of the Association of Educational Therapists, is an educational therapist in private practice in Encino, California.

Introduction Beginnings: A Mother's Recall I. Behind the Office Door: Building the Organic Curriculum 1. December: Making the Connection 2. Early January: The Reciprocal Compromise Principle Leads to the Organic Curriculum 3. Late January: Seeds of Collaboration 4. An Atypical Family Meeting 5. February: Goal-setting, Present and Future, in a Safe Haven 6. March: Alternate Routes to Word Mastery; Engaging the Teachers 7. April: A New Use for Soap Operas, Journal Writing, and Dreams of the Elephant Man II. Employment and Continued Education: Living the Organic Curriculum 8. May: Job vs. Occupation vs. Career-and Lessons on Worry 9. June: Traffic Tickets as Curriculum, and Other Misunderstandings 10. July: Lessons on the Job, Lessons in Literature, Headlines, and Fairness 11. August: College in Summer, Field Trip, and Videotape as a Learning Tool 12. September/ October: College Texts and Morning Papers-A Whole New Path 13. November: An Interest in Autism Becomes a Saga 14. December: Social Challenges of the Holiday Season; Reviewing a Year's Growth III. Continuing Change: Short Vignettes from Subsequent Years in Educational Therapy Year Two. Working for Dad's Office: From Doubt to Confidence Year Two. Role Modeling: The Pressure of Personal Appearance Year Two. Knee Surgery, Pain, and Face-offs with Professionals Year Two. Overcoming a Fear: Becoming a Flyer Year Three. The Whole Dam Thing Years Three and Four. Job at Cozy Cloz: No Longer a Victim Year Five and On. Bumps and Potholes on the Road to Respect Nora Now: Life Lessons and Uncommon Courage Author's Reflections Nora's Response to the Book Appendix A. Rules for the Use of Commas B. Place Value Cards Instructions Template C. Barsch Learning Style Inventory and Scoring Procedures D. Test Scores and Excerpts from Psychoeducational Testing (Dixon) E. Test Scores from Testing by Dorothy Ungerleider F. Rey-Osterreith Complex Figure Drawings (Nora's copy and recall) References Index