Educational therapy, formerly known as re-education or remedial classes, is specialist activities aimed at helping children with all sorts of irregularities in development and behaviour. These disorders are corrected by appropriate impact of a psycho-educational, preventive and medical nature. This is especially important at the beginning of the child's school career. Lack of academic achievement and frequent failure are usually associated with difficulties in reading, writing, or understanding arithmetics, and other school activities and refer to the children with the following challenges:

  • average and lower than average intelligence,

  • visual and auditory disorders,

  • motor development disorders or delays along with disturbances of lateralisation,

  • impaired development of emotional and motivational processes,

  • speech disorders,

  • Mathematics disorders,

  • neural dynamics disorders.

Effective help for children and young people

  • Stimulate general development of the child (mental, psychological and social) with all sorts of deficits and developmental imbalance, in accordance with their capabilities,

  • Remediation of disturbed functions,

  • Facilitating children to learn and acquire new skills required for a given level,

  • Preventing emotional disorders resulting from educational difficulties,

  • Fostering interests,

  • Strengthening confidence in their own abilities,

  • Developing the right motivation to learn.

The aim of the educational therapy is:

  • To stimulate and improve the development of psychomotor function

  • To make up for the deficiencies in students knowledge and skills

  • To eliminate school failure and their emotional and social consequences When planning activities we usually exercise to improve:

  • auditory perception,

  • visual perception,

  • mobility (within fine and gross motor skills),

  • spatial orientation,

  • visual-motor integration,

  • graphomotor skills, eg. during arts and design exercises,

  • auditory and visual memory,

  • focusing attention.

    Therapeutic work is usually a long process requiring a thorough, careful analysis of the opportunities and needs of the child and sometimes resulting with effects that are short-term and not meeting expectations, despite all the hard work. It covers two areas of impact on the child:

    the area of indirect impact through advice, recommendations, guidance for parents, and the area of direct impact by personal contact of a teacher-therapist in the classroom. Thanks to the involvement of the child, parents and a teacher-therapist, and systematic work of all of them, efficiency of these activities greatly increases. Only then we can think about success.