Special Education Practitioner

Specialty in Early Childhood Education, and Lower School

Consultant. Therapist. Teacher. Trainer.

Dear parents, teachers, schools and individuals involved in early childhood education:

My name is Oscar Villalta.

I have dedicated over 15 years to the field of education, mostly in special education.
I have always been passionate about education, and I feel comfortable working especially with younger generations.

After having obtained my Master’s degree in Rehabilitation and Prevention of Learning Problems from Leipzig University in Germany, I have been working as a teacher and therapist for the last decade. Given my experiences, I am confident to offer you professionalism to every situation and customize support to your individual needs and concerns.

My six years of experience teaching at the American School of El Salvador ensures me to provide children with various creative and interactive learning, guiding children to obtain enthusiasm and social skills as well in a social setting.

I am also a former athlete in track and field.
My athlete experience builds my base of discipline and grit. Using my expertise, I have served as as Coach and Guide with Blind Athletes.

In the recent three years before moving to Japan, I have been working in the United States building my professional experiences.
Given the background of having lived and worked outside my own country, I also believe that bilingual education is important in navigating through the current globalized society.
I have a clear understanding of teaching students where English is not their mother tongue.

I expect to be able to contribute as a teacher, a trainer, a consultant at your institution or you home using my diverse and wide range of perspectives, while expanding my skills as I learn from the interaction with the children.
I truly believe that the education is the essential key to building a better society.

Please feel free to get in touch with me to set up a consultation, any small questions you might have for your situation.
You can also use the contact form at the bottom of this page for inquiry.

PARENT CONSULTING

Guidance on how to proceed after a kid has been diagnosed with any early childhood developmental disorder. Suggest literature and offer a complete explanation of the child's diagnosis, and all that comes with it. Help with choosing schools that best meet the student's needs, as well as choosing which therapies could best help based on the infant's diagnosis.

SCHOOL CONSULTING

Offering curriculum design or adaptation. For schools considering to reassess its learning program, either by adding new elements or by modifying the current ones, I will be providing a revision of the program, a diagnosis, and then a proposal of a potential redesigned curriculum. If a school is open to including kids with any learning challenge, will be offering an adapted program that gathers the specific target goals for each of the following classes: math, literacy, and science or their equivalent according to the school's philosophy and terminology.

COGNITIVE TRAINING/PHYSICAL TRAINING

Cognitive Training has some things in common with Physical Training. Both are intended to develop greater strength, stamina, coordination and flexibility. Physical Training focuses on physical abilities, like muscle strength and cardiovascular capacity. Cognitive Training focuses on the cognitive processes our brains use to take in, store, retrieve, organize, apply and reason with information. Cognitive Training is also sometimes called Brain Training. Cognitive Training includes: Attention, Visual Processing, Auditory Processing, Sensory Integration, Memory, Executive Functions (Working Memory, Inhibitory Control and Cognitive Flexibility), Higher-Order Executive Functions (Logic and Reasoning).

INTEGRATIVE THERAPY

It is an approach to treatment that involves selecting the techniques from different therapeutic orientations best suited to a client's particular need. Integrative therapy is not restricted to a particular methodology or school of thought, it draws on different tools as they are needed.

EDUCATIONAL THERAPY

This service, involves companionship with a schooled kid. This could involve being in person at school ("shadowing") the student, helping with the after school tasks and supervising the performance of the kid while doing any school related activity. Based on a particular school program, adapting it to model it into a personalized curriculum that could best suit the student's needs. Also, this service involves a follow-up in terms of the student's progress and any other matter that may need to be addressed or reassessed during the course of the school year.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Occupational Therapy often referred to as OT is tailored for each child’s needs. Its goal is to improve the Fine Motor Skills, Gross motor skills, and Motor planning. It will start by looking at strengths and challenges. Then create a program of exercises and activities that focus on the motor skills that need improving. For example, activities to build fine motor skills might include picking things up with tweezers. Exercises to improve gross motor skills might include jumping jacks or running an obstacle course. For someone who struggles with motor planning, we might work on daily routines like getting dressed. This will help child learn the initial steps and the sequence of tasks that follow.

Please feel free to contact me to seek for any support I can provide.