Therapy Vs Tutoring

it was once believed that inborn intelligence was fixed…

But science has shown that intelligence is not fixed, rather it changes over time as a result of environment and experience. A student’s brain is constantly growing, forming new connections, and creating new patterns. Every experience plays a role in shaping and changing the brain. This ability to change the brain is called neuroplasticity.

Through individual and intense techniques in brain therapy, building patterns and strategies, neuroplasticity occurs. By stimulating areas of deficits, such as visual and auditory perception, thinking skill, or language processing, the student can meet the therapeutic goal of independence and success in the regular classroom. A student engaged in therapy is an active learner developing strategies for problem solving, training to think in cause and effect. As a student actively engages with a therapist as a mediator, he constructs knowledge as he discovers principles and synthesizes material, making it his own.

Tutoring, however, is appropriate for students that have a short-term lapse needing content review or practice. In a tutoring environment, the student is dependent on the tutor as they review and practice content to that they can make it through a particular subject or semester. This creates a passive learner.