Deficit Stimulation
Rather than teaching students primarily to compensate for weakness, NILD educational therapy focuses on deficit areas through a variety of academic techniques, stimulating these areas towards more efficient functioning.

Non-Tutorial
Tutoring focuses on teaching specific subject content. NILD educational therapy focuses on developing the underlying skills necessary for learning, enabling the student to learn independently without tutoring.

Integrative
Effective learning requires integration of perceptual and academic skills. NILD educational therapy techniques develop perceptual and cognitive skills within the context of reading, writing, spelling and math.

Individual and Intense
Extended individualized instruction provides the intensity required to overcome learning deficits. Students in educational therapy are released from the classroom for two 80-minute sessions per week and are in therapy an average of three to four years.

Parental Involvement
Educational therapists come alongside parents as partners in the educational process. Parents provide the needed structure and consistency, and work with their children at home for ongoing stimulation during the week.

All-Age Inclusive
Because of the brain's continuous capacity for change, educational therapy can be effective at any age. While NILD focuses on school-age children, may adults are also receiving help.