learning is creation

An important part of the academic therapy process is to accept the limitations of one's role as the therapist. Children who are struggling in school have been conditioned to act as passive recipients of a predetermined curriculum. In doing so they have been robbed of the opportunity to be co-creators of their knowledge and understanding. Literacy and numeracy are enabling tools - they are not the most important part of learning - they simply allow us to access the wealth of knowledge that awaits our exploration. Addressing deficits in literacy and numeracy cannot focus on the transmission of knowledge. Instead it should allow learners to develop neural structures that work for THEM and their unique and wonderful brains.