This webinar examines the “therapy piece” of educational therapy. Dorothy Ungerleider shares techniques that probe for each client’s unique traits and interests and shows how to use them as motivators for growth and learning. Through case examples of behavior patterns of clients who resist our best intentions and interventions, she discusses ways of disguising “remedial services” to be more palatable through compassionate partnering and multiple forms of advocacy services. From the presenter’s work with delinquent youth, there is a brief look at the possible causes behind the frequent co-occurrence of learning disabilities (LD) and juvenile delinquency (JD).
Dorothy Ungerleider, MA, BCET, FAET, is Founding President of AET, current Advisory Board chair, and author of Reading, Writing, and Rage, Educational Therapy in Action, and Psychoeducational Perspectives. She has lectured extensively, mentored public school teachers for the Schools Attuned program and helped develop training programs in educational therapy at UCLA and CSUN. After forming a pro bono service project at the Juvenile Justice Connection Project in L.A., she lectured to juvenile court judges about the LD/JD link and created a tool for them to use in their Bench Book for screening learning levels of adjudicated youth.