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Empower Every Student: The Importance of Teaching Executive Function Skills
As educators, we know students who always seem to interrupt and disrupt the group. Do they have a response inhibition deficit? Or that student who seems to know they have to start on an assignment but never gets going - is it a weakness in task initiation? What are...
How to Help Your Child Become a Reader: The Power of Perceptual Development
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." - Emilie Buchwald This quote really made me angry. I spent so many hours reading to my son, hoping to spark his love for books in the hope he’d be a good reader. Yet, by age nine, he still wasn't reading...
Feuerstein – The Man, The Method, The Meaning
When I took my first Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) course, my instructor challenged me to develop an “elevator speech” that would succinctly explain the Feuerstein program to others. That was good advice, and on many occasions, I have had the opportunity to...
Write Right!
Write Right! How do we promote writing authentically in this age where technology has spiraled and changed education? How do we keep our students writing when there’s an “app” that will do it for them? How do we, as adults, keep “writing right”? Creative writing is...
HELP! School is Out! What now?!
School is out! By now you’ve heard that both public and private school will be closed following March Break for at least two weeks. Schools may, or may not, be providing instructional materials and/or online academic support. But amid the confusion and uncertainty,...
How NILD Educational Therapy Helps Dyslexia
Dyslexia affects 1 in 10 people. Do you or a loved one have dyslexia? Statistics show that 1 in 10 people suffer with dyslexia. Those are very high odds. What is life like when you struggle to read every day? As an NILD Educational Therapist, I already knew that our...
I Am Not the Same Teacher that I Used to Be
NILD Canada's Search & Teach Program It was purely by accident that I first heard about NILD Canada and the Search and Teach program. I was working as a resource teacher at a Montessori-based elementary school when a friend casually mentioned that she’d heard...
Tutoring? Educational Therapy? What’s the difference?
I have always been passionate about helping struggling learners. As a former classroom teacher and tutor, I was always frustrated that I couldn’t really help the students who needed my help the most. No matter how much extra time I spent tutoring them, they never...
Interview with Lorri Wilke | Rx for Writing Instructor
NILD Canada is eager to welcome Lorri Wilke, an instructor from NILD U.S., for our first Canadian Rx for Writing Course. This course will be offered the day before our Annual Conference begins. Listen in to our interview with Lorri about her experience as a therapist...
Why I chose to train as an Educational Therapist
Enjoy today's guest post by one of our therapists, Naomi Cunningham. I learned about NILD Educational Therapy when I was in a brain development class, while doing my Honours Bachelor of Child Development. As I listened, a light switched on for me, Educational Therapy...