A leading child development center in Los Angeles specializing in the use of thinking activities that are tailored to your child’s unique developmental needs. Our goal is to empower children with the tools to reach their fullest potential and achieve cognitive growth academically, socially, and emotionally.
In order to establish an appropriate treatment program unique to your child’s needs, we must first assess your child’s overall development.
Cognitive Developmental Therapy (CDT) is a comprehensive approach that addresses a child wholly by utilizing each child’s strengths to overcome specific challenges in development.
For patients requiring a more rigorous approach, our intensive program helps to accelerate treatment gains within a shorter period of time.
Group activities expand a child’s social repertoire for handling interpersonal situations while nurturing healthy self-expressions.
Our parent coaching program helps you navigate the fine boundaries of encouraging your child’s curiosity and critical thinking skills while also providing the space for your child to solve problems independently.
Our patients receive the most comprehensive treatment to overcome developmental challenges and reach milestones efficiently.
From infancy through adulthood, the ability to think is ever-evolving. The thinking activities offered by Little Thinkers Center are tailored to your child’s unique developmental needs. Our Mission is to empower children with the tools to reach their fullest potential and achieve cognitive growth academically, socially, and emotionally. Rather than focus solely on chronological age, we implement developmentally appropriate thinking games that foster smooth, continuous growth. Influenced by the work of Jean Piaget and Harry Wachs, Little Thinkers Center integrates core strategies in child development to help children tackle obstacles successfully.
What determines a child’s ability to meet challenges academically, physically, socially, or emotionally is the belief in their own ability to master an obstacle when it’s presented. A child who struggles to overcome difficult situations repeatedly often becomes anxious and hesitant under future similar conditions. This can result in low self-confidence for other endeavors and poor self-image overall. Consequently, the child may avoid challenging situations altogether or engage them with intense stress and apprehension. Since stress and anxiety directly impede learning and development, what ensues is a vicious cycle of developmental challenges that trigger anxiety, which in turn, interferes with the child’s learning, self-esteem, and fundamental growth.
The good news is that there is effective help if your child is struggling with a developmental or learning challenge. Cognitive Developmental Therapy (CDT) is a hands-on approach that tailors specific thinking activities to help children overcome certain challenges and improve the quality of interactions with their environment. Confidence is gained from meaningful “ah-ha” experiences as the child explores thinking games that target a particular area of need, and gains awareness of the what, where, who, when, and how’s behind each task. This encourages a belief in their own ability to learn and mitigates the apprehension that often comes with developmental challenges. With stress and anxiety minimized, learning can take place as your child’s inherent desire to discover strengthens.
Treatment is short-term because your child will actively acquire and apply the skills gained. The benefits are life lasting since our Thinking Games promote conceptual learning and divergent thinking skills versus content learning and rote memorization. Our program is available for treating children between 2 and 18 years old.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you. Contact us using the email form below and let us know how we can help.
1849 Sawtelle Blvd Suite 710 Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel: 310-268-1888
Fax: 310-268-1880
Info@littlethinkerscenter.com
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