About Ruth Vincill, MSW, E.T.
Ruth has been involved in education throughout her career. As a parent, Ruth searched for educational support services that aligned with her own. She searched for interventions that would empower her children to become lifelong, competent, and confident learners. This left her empty-handed and discouraged, unable to find services and supports that were research-based and reliable. Then she discovered the National Institute of Learning Development’s (NILD) Educational Therapy. With a desire to provide what her own children needed and seeing the unmet needs of other students, she pursued licensure in order to be able to assist struggling individuals with research-based best practices, with maximum impact to overcome learning challenges.
Her desire to assist her children in their learning transformed into a skill set many students need. Often, students with learning difficulties and disabilities have to learn to cope with their learning problems for the rest of their lives. However, research now proves that the brain can be retrained, and in many cases, learning difficulties and disabilities can actually be overcome. Ruth’s greatest desire is for her students to have the opportunity to learn how to learn, to learn without labels or limits, and to empower them through proven and powerful techniques that increase their ability to think and reason, not just in the classroom but in life. She desires that her students not define themselves by what they cannot do but rather see themselves as individuals with Limitless Learning abilities.
Ruth has a Bachelor’s of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She holds a Master's Degree in Social Work from the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Ruth completed her licensure as an Educational Therapist through the National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) . NILD is accredited by the International Dyslexia Association.
Throughout her academic career, she pursued education with focus on the studies of counseling, mental health, psychology, case management, reading education, with advanced study in the areas of Human Behavior, Social Work Research, Evaluation Research, and Advanced Research Methods and Techniques.
NILD Educational Therapists & the International Dyslexia Association -Accreditation
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) has accredited the The National Institute for Learning Differences teacher programs for students with dyslexia and reading difficulties. The training of NILD Educational Therapists can be directly linked back to the IDA’s standards and requirements.
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) commends NILD for its therapeutic, research- based, individualized approach, grounded in test and observational data, addressing all components of reading within a cognitive development framework.
The IDA noted the following strengths of the NILD Educational Therapy:
Therapeutic Approach is research-based, individualized, and grounded in test and observational data
Components of reading are addressed within a cognitive development framework
Rich vocabulary development is emphasized in all segments of the therapy session
Assessment and progress monitoring is strong
Diagnostic teaching is evident
Ethical standards for therapists are taught explicitly and monitored