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199: How Business Coaching Leads You to What You Want with Denielle Adibi (Business Practices Series)
Educational Therapist and Dyslexia Specialist Denielle Adibi joins the podcast today to discuss her experience doing business coaching with Rachel. She talks about how her desire to create a bigger im
198: Trusting Your Parental Instincts with Laura (Success Stories)
Laura is a parent of one of Stephanie’s clients and she joins Rachel and Stephanie for a discussion about her parenting journey. She shares how hard it has been to get her daughter the help she needed
197: How to Exit out of Educational Therapy (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel and Steph share how they exit learners out of Educational Therapy. They share their thought processes and questions they ask to determine if learners are ready to mitigate or stop educational t
196: The How and Why of Your Learner’s Superpower with My Ed Therapist’s Laura Korman (Educational Therapy Series)
My Ed Therapist’s Laura shares her own learning story and how it has informed her teaching style. She shares her ability to reframe learning disabilities to “super abilities”. She talks about the impo
195: Sensory Processing Disorder and the “Out of Sync Child” with Carol Kranowitz (Author Series)
We all are processing our senses all the time. Carol Kranowitz talks us through her story and explains Sensory Processing Disorder and how sensations come in. She talks about how the Central Nervous S
194: Why I Went to Ed Therapy School with Kapp Ed Therapy’s Nikkia Pannell (Educational Therapy Series)
Kapp Educational Therapy Group Learning Specialist and future Educational Therapist Nikkia Pannell joins today to share about her career journey. She shares what drew her into the Educational Therapy
193: Does My Learner Need a Diagnosis? (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel and Stephanie dig into how they feel about whether or not a learner “needs” a diagnosis. They discuss some of the reasons why parents avoid getting a diagnosis, why a diagnosis is NOT an excuse
192: The Formula For Effort: How to Tell if Your Learner is Trying with Eric Kaufmann (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel and Steph welcome back My Ed Therapist Clinic Director, Eric Kaufmann. Eric breaks down our formula for effort (Engagement + Problem Solving = Effort). They talk about how to see if a learner h
191: The Why and How of Informal Assessment with Katie Nolan (Educational Therapy Series)
Rachel and Stephanie welcome back Katie Nolan, the Clinical Director of Kapp Educational Therapy Group. Katie breaks down why she loves formal AND informal assessment. She also explains how intentiona
190: Emotionally Charged Task Avoidance (Educational Therapy Series)
The learners that Rachel and Steph work with at Kapp Educational Therapy Group and My Ed Therapist ALL have some emotional response to tasks that they avoid. Rachel and Steph dig into this–they talk a