ABSTRACT
The educational therapist (ET) of the 21st century has a rich endowment of techniques based on the practice, writings, and scientifically sound methods of professionals who have worked with children and adults with learning problems for the last hundred years. Practitioners and therapists in the fields of special and remedial education, psychiatry, psychology, and sociology have contributed their narratives to develop the guidelines of this burgeoning profession in the United States and Europe. The term educational therapist has replaced the terms therapeutic tutor, psychopedagogist, special teacher, reinforcement therapist, clinical teacher, remedial therapist, language therapist, multidisciplinary teacher, and learning therapist as the person who remediates learning problems. In the 1800s, Edward Seguin organized the first educational system for mentally retarded children. The Raskob Learning Institute (RLI) in Oakland, California, was founded in 1953 by Sister Eileen Cronin as a clinic that provided one-to-one remedial education to students with learning disabilities, as well as training for teachers in the center's innovative approaches.
