What is an Educational Consultant - Shofer Educational Consulting

What is an educational consultant?

An educational consultant, is a professional and an expert in finding the appropriate fit between a student and a school or program. While many educational consultants often specialize in more than one area, they usually have a primary area of focus, for example: colleges, or day schools, boarding schools, or therapeutic, or learning differences. My focus is students with learning differences or those in need of therapeutic placements.

Why work with an educational consultant?

A therapeutic/educational consultant is the professional used by families with a struggling child to help them explore residential options. The expertise and advice of a trained educational consultant is the most valuable resource a family can have as they navigate finding help for their child.

Educational consultants are the link between families and boarding schools for students with learning differences, wilderness programs, residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools and stabilization and assessment centers. A consultant should have the professional background to fully assess a child’s academic, social, and emotional needs and match them with the appropriate staff and setting.

An educational consultant needs to be experienced and knowledgeable in order to determine what level of treatment is needed for the student. Which facilities – academic boarding schools or therapeutic programs, are going to be best suited for your child’s needs. They need to be skilled at managing the relationships with therapists, field guides, admissions directors, and educators.

The best educational consultants have visited the vast majority of boarding schools for students with learning differences as well as therapeutic programs, acute care hospital settings, intervention programs and young adult support settings. They know the individual therapists and can often be instrumental in matching the child with the most appropriate therapist in a particular program. An educational consultant is a family’s advocate before, during and after placement.

Can you guarantee that a child will be admitted to a particular school or program?

I never solicit or accept any form of compensation from schools, programs, agencies, or companies in exchange for placements or referrals.

When your child is frustrated and struggling academically
When your child is refusing to go to school
When your child is not responding well to local support such as outpatient therapy, specialized day school, medication, etc.
When family life is disrupted because of the child’s behavior.
When they need to be assessed in a 24/7 environment.
When he or she refuses treatment
When you are worried about their safety
When your child’s symptoms persist or worsen
When they pull away or isolate more
When your child has been hospitalized and symptoms persist
When despite your best efforts, your child continues to spiral downward or is not making significant progress

What is an educational consultant?

Why work with an educational consultant?

Can you guarantee that a child will be admitted to a particular school or program?

When is it time to hire an educational consultant

and consider residential options?

When your child is frustrated and struggling academically

When your child is refusing to go to school

When your child is not responding well to local support such as outpatient therapy, specialized day school, medication, etc.

When family life is disrupted because of the child’s behavior.

When they need to be assessed in a 24/7 environment.

When he or she refuses treatment

When you are worried about their safety

When your child’s symptoms persist or worsen

When they pull away or isolate more

When your child has been hospitalized and symptoms persist

When despite your best efforts, your child continues to spiral downward or is not making significant progress

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