About Sam
Sam Tolkin currently lives in New Haven, CT. As an individual with ADHD, he empathizes with learning struggles as he had to develop his own creative strategies to succeed in school and beyond. His goal is to teach students to grow to their full potential while becoming independent, lifelong learners.
Sam has over 10 years of experience working with students at all levels of education and work. He holds a Master's in Special Education with a concentration in Educational Therapy.
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What is Educational Therapy?
"Educational therapy is the practice of providing personalized remedial instruction to children and adults with learning challenges, including but not limited to dyslexia, ADHD, executive functioning deficits, and language, visual and auditory processing issues. The ultimate goal of educational therapy is to foster development of self-confident, independent individuals who feel positively about themselves and their potential as lifelong learners."
Educational therapy offers a holistic approach to a student's learning: intertwining emotional, behavioral, and academic struggles. Unlike tutoring, which focuses on WHAT to learn, an educational therapist focuses on HOW to learn. Educational therapists have extensive training in intervention strategies catered to students with learning differences and help students create and achieve goals related to the student's strengths and weaknesses, developing learning strategies, and self-advocacy.
-Association of Educational Therapists