This form of therapy offers a wide range of intensive interventions that are designed to resolve learners' learning problems.
The student engages in activities that help their academics comprehension, as well as, teach them skills in processing, focusing, and memory.
The educational therapist uses a variety of methodologies and teaching materials to help the student build on his/her academic competency.
Students today are expected to hold vast amounts of information in their memory banks.
[2] By addressing the processing of information, focusing issues, and memory skills, as well as academics, the educational therapist is better able to treat the underlying problem of the learning issue that is keeping the student from succeeding in the academic arena.
[3] In the 1940s, parallel development in the field took place in Europe and the United States, influenced by the work of pioneers like August Aichorn and Katrina DeHirsch, in Germany.
In the UK in the 1960s, Irene Caspari, Principal Psychologist at the Tavistock Centre, London, became a leading trainer and exponent of a more psychoanalytic version of educational therapy, leaving money for the establishment of a 'Forum for the Advancement of Educational Therapy'.