Everything you need to know about Educational therapists

Your child is in primary, middle, or high school and you have noticed the following signs:

• Experiences difficulties in learning:
  – Attention
  – Understanding instructions
  – Memorizing/recalling information
  – Problem-solving
  – Organizing work and managing time
• Sometimes lacks motivation
• Struggles to regulate emotions during learning
• Needs support related to a learning disability

An educational therapist is a specialist in learning strategies:

• They offers methods and tools to
  – Learn better,
  – Understand better,
  – Organize better,
  – Retain information better.
• They help children overcome obstacles and develop their full potential.
• They draw on research in educational sciences (pedagogy, didactics, etc.) and cognitive sciences (including neuroscience).

The sessions with the educational therapist aim to develop several skills in the child:

• Learn how to learn
• Engaging the child in their learning
• Help the child feel calmer and more confident while learning.
• Developing his self-confidence
• Developing independence

The educational therapist supports "atypical" children when these atypicalities have repercussions on their learning:

• Learning disability
• Dys disorders
• ADHD

The educational therapist intervenes in all areas related to the development of learning strategies:

• Executive Functions
• Memorization
• Managing emotions
• Learning methodology
• Metacognition

The methods of intervention employed by the educational therapist are numerous and rely on several means:

• Methodologies of the “learning how to learn” type
• Cognitive and metacognitive processes in the service of learning
• School compensation measures and accommodations

Seeing an educational therapist is like having a coach to help you learn better!
They help you find and implement methods that work for you so you feel more confident and succeed in school .
Their goal: to make you feel more comfortable in class and proud of your progress!

1. We start by observing!
   📖 The educational therapist will ask you questions about what is easy or difficult for you at school, and may observe you doing some exercises (no grade, it's just to understand and get to know you better!)
2. Next, you'll investigate how your brain works, like a detective.
   🔎 A educational therapist is an expert on how the brain learns.
   He'll help you unravel all its mysteries, because if you understand how it works, you're more likely to develop the right strategies to help you feel more comfortable at school!
3. Train , but above all, play!
   🎲 Much like a coach trains a top athlete, the educational therapist will guide you towards exercises and games to train certain skills, until they become automatic.
4. And then what?
   ✅ Between sessions, he'll give you small tasks and strategies to try at home or in class to help you progress. Don't worry, it's all gradual and it's normal for it to take time. You'll go at your own pace!

The session with the educational specialist can take place in several locations:

• In his office
• At school, in addition to the work of teachers and education professionals
• In a specialized center
• At home
• And even remotely on a computer or tablet!

With the educational therapist, you’ll discover 5 Babaoos: the 5 super-allies of your Brain!

• Inhi is the expert in controlling actions and thoughts. Inhi will teach you to pause and think before you act!
• Atteni is the guardian of your attention. With Atteni, you will learn to focus your attention in the right place, at the right time, for as long as it takes.
• Memtra is your ally whenever there's a lot of information involved. Thanks to Memtra, you'll learn to manipulate words, images… without losing them along the way!
• Flexi is the most zen of the Babaoos. If you lose your composure when the instructions change or your first idea doesn't work, don't panic! Flexi will teach you how to adapt to find another solution.
• Plano is always there to help you solve problems. Plano will teach you how to organize your work, step by step, and how to control each step. He's undoubtedly the most organized of the Babaoos!

With each Babaoo, discover and practice through play to develop reflexes that will allow you to be more comfortable at school, succeed and gain confidence.

The educational therapist is the superhero of learning strategies!
Thanks to their expertise, they help children overcome their academic difficulties by providing them with concrete and personalized tools to optimize their learning. Their role is essential in preventing academic failure and restoring confidence to struggling students.
They are superheroes because they face numerous challenges every day:

• Time management expert
• An expert in educational games
• Ensures the transfer of skills developed during the session, into the child's real life and throughout their lives.

• 💡 Attention: why work on this in remedial education? A child who struggles to control their attention has difficulty following a lesson, reading an entire text, or maintaining focused attention. Strengthening their attention improves their
• 💡 Working memory: why work on this in remedial education? Working memory allows us to retain information temporarily in order to process it , such as when a child has to remember a sentence before writing it down or a calculation in mind before putting down its result.
• 💡 Inhibitory control: why work on this in remedial education? A child who rushes through reading, problem-solving, or writing often makes mistakes they could have avoided by taking their time. Working on inhibitory control helps them think before acting and apply the most appropriate strategy for the situation .
• 💡 Cognitive flexibility: why work on this in remedial education? Flexibility is essential to change methods if an approach does not work, to understand that a problem can have several solutions, or to adapt to different spelling and mathematical rules.
• 💡 Planning and organization: why work on this in remedial education? Many children struggle to organize their ideas before writing, to structure their reasoning, or to manage their homework. Developing this skill prepares them to anticipate their tasks and structure their work .

Babaoo is the fun and science-based app that stimulates executive functions and develops metacognition in both neurodivergent and neurotypical children. It offers a turnkey learning path to mastering each executive function through:

• Metacognitive content that can be integrated into short sessions.
• Highly targeted mini-games to raise awareness , automate and contextualize.
• Missions to be carried out in real life, to support the transfer , between and after the sessions.

Babaoo offers several modes that can support your work during the session and between sessions with the child:

🎯 Training Mode

• Mini-games that stimulate Executive Functions in a targeted way, to support children as closely as possible to their needs.
• A fun and progressive approach that allows children to practice without frustration.

🧠 Adventure Mode

• An immersive universe that encourages discovery and reflection while having fun, at your own pace, and between your sessions at home.
• An engaging way to strengthen metacognition , to help the child better understand their own cognitive functioning.

🚀 Missions

• Concrete challenges to be carried out outside of sessions , to encourage the transfer of strategies into the child's daily life.
• A tool that promotes the involvement of the child's environment , at home and at school.

📊 A multidisciplinary tool
Speech therapists, occupational therapists, and teachers can also use Babaoo, helping create a consistent multidisciplinary approach.

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