Our Vision
Since our inception as an organization in 2006, our vision for Discovery Therapies has been to become Columbia’s trusted educational therapy experts for those who are struggling to learn.
- We intend to become widely known as Columbia’s experts in the area of learning development. As such, we plan to be a trusted resource that helps people in the community in the decision-making process of choosing appropriate assistance, even if that does not include our fee-based services.
- We will offer people of the Columbia area a variety of educational therapy services and/or health based services provided by highly trained and licensed practitioners, which effectively address the underlying issues that cause students to struggle.
- Our intention is that students who complete the educational therapy process become independent learners, no longer needing significant accommodations.
- We will be a complement to the other interventions that are compensatory in nature (such as tutoring) and not necessarily a substitute.
- We will partner with private, public and home schools – partnering with them in educating their students, as well as providing professional support to the adults that work with these students.
- We will continue to provide fee for service, at a lower cost than most national tutoring centers, in order to work with students.
- We will seek to help the public schools provide NILD training for their special education and resource teachers in order that cost will not be a factor for the middle-to-low income students.
- We will start and maintain a scholarship fund to assist parents in their ability to pay for services.
- We will partner with other nonprofits/organizations that are working with struggling learners, in order to raise the funds necessary for us to assist with these individual’s educational needs.
- We will develop relationships with the medical and psychological community in order to help provide services for adults who have suffered traumatic brain injury impacting their cognitive and educational skills; such as those who have had a stroke or car accident.
