I am a professonal educator.  I am the sole owner and provider of services for Offstein Educational Therapy, Inc.  I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, a Master of Arts degree in Special Education, an Elementary Education Credential, a Resource Specialist Certificate, and a Montessori Education Certificate. 

I am a Board Certified Educational Therapist and have been an active member of the Association of Educational Therapists (AET) since 1999.  To learn more about Educational Therapy and AET, go to my link:  Educational Therapy Defined.

I began teaching in the public school system as both a long-term and day-to-day special education substitute teacher in 1977 for the Montebello Unified School District. I preferred working as a substitute, rather than a full-time teacher, so I could devote more time to raising my son and being a stay-at-home wife and mother. 

When my son graduated high school, I was hired to teach my own K-5 Resource Specialist Classroom for the Bonita Unified School District.  Then, in 1989, the Glendora Unified School District contacted me and hired me to teach the Resource/Special Education 6-8 classes at Goddard Middle School.

Soon after going into private practice as an educational therapist, I learned about EEG (electroencephalograph) Neurofeedback.  When I became aware of the amazing healing that could be accomplished through this technique, I began training with Margaret Ayers, the creator of the world’s first patented, Real Time, All Digital EEG Neurofeedback Machine.   (USA patents: 4,919,143; 5,024,253; 5,571,057 and patents in England, Germany and Japan).  All EEG Neurofeedback equipment used in brain retraining sessions is the patented Margaret Ayers system.  You can learn more about Margaret Ayers and Real-Time All-Digital EEG Neurofeedback by going to www.neuropathways.com.  

You can read more about EEG Neurofeedback and find answers to frequently asked questions by clicking this link: Explanation of EEG Neurofeedback.

I have personally provided EEG Neurofeedback training to individuals who have suffered from strokes, severe head injury, migraine headaches, cerebral palsy, Down's Syndrome, locked-in syndrome, and coma, as well as various degrees of learning and attention disabilities.  I find this therapy to be effective for improving a variety of conditions and encourage you to continue to explore my site to learn more about it.

EDUCATIONAL THERAPY

Offstein Educational Therapy, Inc. provides a one-on-one, individualized, program designed to discover the pathology of learning that is interfering with the client’s successful achievement in school or in the workplace.  I provide remedial instruction, as needed, in phonemic awareness, reading fluency and comprehension, written language, spelling, and basic arithmetic.

I work with individuals aged 6 through adult who have been diagnosed with specific learning disabilities, dyslexia, ADD/ADHD, mental retardation, autism, and/or multiple disabilities, students who are struggling in school but who do not meet criteria for inclusion in Special Education Programs, and adults who struggle with these or similar conditions.

EEG NEUROFEEDBACK

Offstein Educational Therapy, Inc. specializes in providing Real-Time, All-Digital EEG Neurofeedback, which is both safe and effective.  It helps to improve functions such as concentration, short-term memory, speech motor skills, sleep, energy level, and emotional balance.

Current brain research has shown that EEG Neurofeedback can be an effective auxiliary treatment for remediation of variety of conditions that can result in abnormal brain wave rhythms such as: open and/or closed head injury, stroke, coma, autism, epilepsy, migraine cluster headaches, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, learning disabilities, clinical depression, anoxia, Parkinson’s, and post viral damage.