Typically, the clients who seek educational therapy are children, adolescents, and adults who have suspected or diagnosed learning disabilities, attentional disorders, and co-existing conditions or diagnoses (e.g., depression, difficulty in social situations, etc.). Clients may experience these difficulties in almost any setting where expectations are perceived or experienced as ranging from difficult to insurmountable.
“The reason why clients seek the services of ETs is because they are experiencing some kind of dissonance in their learning and functioning beyond that which Paula Fuqua (1993) described as “a disruption” in the learning of something new, which may cause undue stress for some children as they attempt to accommodate a new skill.”
~from Chapter One of The Clinical Practice of Educational Therapy: A Teaching Model
