For many families, raising a child with APD (Auditory Processing Disorder) or CAPD means coping, understanding, and finding the right accommodations to help the child throughout the day. No medication has been found to help, and so far cognitive research has not produced any promising treatments. However, for families that do not take “no” as an answer, there is still one course of treatment that carries promise.
Therapeutic Learning Center is a small educational therapy center located in Solana Beach, California. The focuses is on addressing the root of an individual’s struggles and developing the building blocks of learning. Instead of providing an educational Band-Aid to get students through the day, we seek to help students develop the executive function, processing skills, and core learning skills they need to excel in life.
There is currently no one-size-fits-all approach to helping children with APD to improve their symptoms. For this reason, Therapeutic Learning Center works individually with each child to create a step-by-step program of learning activities and games.
We help with:
- Understanding speech in noisy environments
- Discerning different sounds in speech
- Learning to spell
- Developing active listening skills
- Enhancing executive function
- Building memory for different sounds
A child’s brain is more elastic than that of an adult, meaning it is easier and more natural to learn unattained skills. As of now, Therapeutic Learning Center has successfully brought 20 children out of special education and into the regular classroom. TLC also provides support for children enrolled in homeschool.
TLC is ideal for children who would otherwise require speech therapy, tutoring, and a variety of other treatments from multiple locations. The specialized one-on-one program approach covers every aspect of your child’s learning. If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, or struggles in school, but has not been diagnosed, or if your child suffers from multiple disorders, TLC may be the ideal space to seek treatment.
We would love to sit down with you and discuss hopes, expectations, struggles, and successes. Your story can help to illuminate your child’s strengths as well as areas in which we may focus our efforts. We are interested in the best outcome, whether that means developing valuable new skills or leaving special education behind. If you believe we could be of help to your child and family, we would love to meet you and talk further about how we can help you reach your goals.