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TREE OF LEARNING

Our trademark Tree of Learning outlines the hierarchical skills of learning that allow your child to grow and succeed. From the roots to the fruits - we build a solid foundation for your child's academic future.

Processing Skills

Processing skills are essential to all learning, and they involve the understanding of, integration of, and reaction to presented information. 

Cognitive Skills

Cognitive skills develop throughout the lifespan and are critical to all future learning. 

 

Executive Function Skills

Executive Function Skills are the neurocognitive regulation skills that make it possible for an individual to sustain attention, meet goals, retain information, regulate impulses, avoid distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different choices, integrate past experiences, and plan.

​Tool Skills

​Tool skills are the foundational academic skills that are necessary to all higher content learning, and they are acquired through explicit instruction and/or engagement and exposure. 

Domain-Specific Skills

Domain- specific skills rely on the application of these tool skills within certain content areas.

TREE OF LEARNING

DOMAIN SKILLS

CHEMISTRY

HISTORY

ALGEBRA

LITERATURE

BIOLOGY

TOOL SKILLS

READING/SPELLING

READING COMPREHENSION

READING VOCABULARY

WRITTEN EXPRESSION

MATHEMATICS

EXECUTIVE FUNCTION

INHIBITION

WORKING MEMORY

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY

COGNITION

OVERALL COGNITION

FLUID REASONING

COMPREHENSION/KNOWLEDGE

QUANTITATIVE REASONING

ATTENTION

MEMORY SYSTEMS

ORAL LANGUAGE

PROCESSING

PHONOLOGICAL/ AUDITORY

VISUAL PROCESSING

PROCESSING SPEED

THE
EDUCATIONAL
THERAPY CENTER

OF PRINCETON

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