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Which Masters Program?
I want to tell you what my dream job is in hopes that you can tell me a masters program that you find would fit this description. It is very similar to a psychologist or a speech pathologist. Basically, I want to work with kids who have learning disabilities. I want to help them with their homework and studying but from a psychological perspective, based off of cognitive skills and memory improvement skills that you learn in psychology, versus just basic tutoring. What would you say that this is?
I have looked up Educational Psychology, but it is more towards the path of school counseling, which isn't what I want to do. I want to have like my own practice, but focus on education, rather than just counseling. If counseling is needed, I can do that too. Like, for instance, if something is bothering you, and you can't focus, that's a problem and I could counsel them. However, their not there for that purpose alone.
What can you tell me this is?
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Well, as a child psychologist you would be able to specialize in working with children with cognitive disabilities or learning disabilities. That will take a great deal more than just a masters of course - that is a masters and PHD at the very least.
I'm not sure the perfect masters program exists for you. You have such a specific interest, than you might need to do something more general like educational psychology and carve your own path and specialization from there.
However, I'm wondering if you might find occupational therapy interesting. It generally requires a masters to become licensed as an OT in the states, and it sounds like it's more in tune with your interests. My mother is an OT - she worked for a school board predominantly and helped children with disabilities like autism or cerebral palsy function in their classrooms and helped teachers and parents to provide the right kind of instruction and tools for these children.
It's not 'counseling' per say. It's about tactics to help people achieve tasks when their abilities or physical and cognitive needs are different than the norm. It's very focused on practical solutions for day to day life - it's not about treating the mind the way psychology is. It's not 'talk therapy' either.
Occupational therapists do not generally work with people who have mild to moderate learning disabilities. They generally work with people who have disabilities that pose a much greater day to day problem. Wikipedia has a pretty good page about what OT do when the practice with small children: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
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