Duden Institute for Learning Therapy

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DI learning therapy GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1992 as part of Paetec GmbH
Seat Berlin
management Gerd-Dietrich Schmidt (Managing Director)
Branch Learning therapy for reading and writing weaknesses (LRS) and arithmetic weaknesses
Website www.duden-institute.de

The Duden Institute for Learning Therapy conducts integrative learning therapies to overcome weaknesses in reading and writing (or dyslexia), weaknesses in numeracy (or dyscalculia) and weakness in English. Duden Institutes for Learning Therapy are operated as part of a franchise system with around 45 franchisees at almost 80 locations in Germany, Austria and soon also in Switzerland. The franchisor is DI Lerntherapie GmbH in Berlin, which also operates its own institutes.

activity

The main business area of ​​the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy is integrative learning therapy based on the dissertation “Learning Difficulties in Mathematics Lessons in Elementary Schools” by Andrea Schulz as a scientific basis.

The target group are children, adolescents and adults who, due to developmental delays in the area of ​​essential cognitive skills, could not sufficiently acquire a basic mathematical education or reading or correct writing or even basic knowledge of the English language in the standard training and who also did not experience their difficulties through the usual tutoring can overcome. The respective subject didactics are combined with elements from play therapy , occupational therapy and family therapy .

Learning therapies at the Duden Institutes are mostly carried out as individual therapy or in a small group with a maximum of three children. This allows the individual difficulties of a child to be addressed. There is also an intensive therapy week during the school holidays. Here, within five days, the focus is placed on one main topic, which is dealt with in three hours in the mornings. This leads to faster learning success and strengthens the self-confidence of the clients. The concept is used for all age groups, as the therapies are based on in-depth diagnostics and the resulting individual therapy plans.

One of the pillars of learning therapies is the therapeutic relationship. In addition, following the example of family therapy, the parents are also involved, as they are continuously informed about the contents of the therapy and support a successful therapy by continuing to work at home. There is also a collaboration with the children's schools, which ideally enable disadvantages to be compensated, but also communicate with the learning therapists about the current status and progress of the children. Depending on regional conditions and if there is a threat to mental health and the client's participation in social life, there is also cooperation with local youth or social welfare offices. In these cases there is the possibility of financing the learning therapy in accordance with Section 35a of Book VIII of the Social Code regardless of the parents' income situation.

The concept was further developed by academic staff at the Duden Institute and their findings and materials were published in specialist journals and handbooks. The Duden Institutes for Learning Therapy also organize biannual specialist conferences, which serve the technical and entrepreneurial exchange between the partners and the transfer of new knowledge from the specialist sciences. They are therefore leaders in the scientific field of learning therapy.

With the PuLs studies (Part 1: Psychosocial Stress and Learning Difficulties; Part 2: Mobbing) from 2015 and 2016, scientific employees of the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy examined the connection between learning disorders and psychosocial stress, especially through mobbing. The study met with broad press and media coverage, which enabled the topic to be brought more publicly.

The Duden learning therapy study from 2017 examined the effects of financing learning therapy on the coverage of needs and the composition of the clientele who can take advantage of learning therapy. For this purpose, data on over 1,000 learning therapies that were carried out in the past 25 years (1992–2017) at the Berlin Duden Institute for Learning Therapy were used. It is the only study of the learning therapy clientele over 25 years.

The HaLFa study from 2019 examined the connection between characteristics of the homework situation and family stress in children with reading, spelling and / or arithmetic difficulties. For this purpose, 204 parents were asked about homework in an exploratory study at twelve nationwide locations of the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy, whose children received integrative learning therapy to overcome their LRS and / or arithmetic weaknesses.

Corporate structure

The Duden Institute for Learning Therapy is organized in the form of a franchise system. The head office, based in Berlin, is responsible for the provision and further development of the content concept, the collection of materials, the training of learning therapists, the central marketing as well as the transfer of commercial, advertising and general entrepreneurial experience. She runs several institutes of her own in the Berlin area. The franchise partners operate independently under the brand name and with the help of the materials provided after extensive training and introduction to the system as well as after a complete therapist training.

For the exchange and further development of the system, annual meetings, specialist conferences, an entrepreneurial academy and, from 2017, congresses are held regularly, at which the focus is on the exchange of economic, technical and practical experience. System policy decisions and the regular exchange of information between the franchisor and the franchisees are made within the framework of an advisory board of the system.

The franchise system of DI Lerntherapie GmbH is a full member of the German Franchise Association (DFV) , was certified by it and was awarded the F&C Franchise Award Gold in 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2019, which is based on an anonymous satisfaction survey of all partners. It is thus on the premium list of franchise systems in Germany. In 2014 it was also one of the three finalists for the “Franchise System of the Year”. In 2019 it was again nominated as one of the three finalists for “Franchisor of the Year”. In 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2015 the company was nominated for the Grand Prix of Medium-Sized Enterprises and was named a finalist in 2007. In 2019, the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy was awarded the "Grand Prize for SMEs 2019".

history

The Duden Institutes for Learning Therapy developed from the Paetec Institutes for Learning Therapy, which were founded and built up in 1992 as part of Paetec GmbH and later Duden Paetec GmbH. One of the founders was the then managing director of Paetec GmbH and today's managing director of DI Lerntherapie GmbH Gerd-Dietrich Schmidt.

Since 1995 the concept and the materials for the implementation of integrative learning therapies have been operated as part of a nationwide franchise system.

After a first cooperation agreement in 2000 between Paetec Gesellschaft für Bildung und Technik mbH and Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG (BIFAB) with the well-known brands Duden, Brockhaus and Meyer, as well as a majority stake in BIFAB in spring 2003, the institutes have been owned since 2004 about the Duden brand and the Duden learning world. In September 2008 the Paetec Institutes for Learning Therapy became the Duden Institutes for Learning Therapy.

After the BIFAB was taken over by the Franz Cornelsen Education Group in 2009 and after internal restructuring, the Duden learning therapy business was spun off from Duden Paetec GmbH to form a separate company. This was sold to the managing director Gerd-Dietrich Schmidt on January 1, 2013 and now works as an independent company in the areas of learning therapy and franchising. The “Duden” brand may continue to be used.

Cooperations

Research is also carried out in the Duden Institutes for Learning Therapy. The company cooperated with the University of Potsdam as part of the RaSch project . Here, cognitive, linguistic, motor and emotional skills as well as the written language of school children were tested in heterogeneous individual and group situations in order to shed light on the opportunities and risks for successfully learning the written language. As part of a large study with around 150 third graders, nine children with an LRS from the Duden Institute in Berlin were also examined. After one year of learning therapy, a follow-up measurement was carried out for these nine children in order to examine the effectiveness of the learning therapy.

The junior professors Silvia Schöneburg and Susanne Dögnitz from the University of Leipzig are developing an instrument that makes it possible, with a manageable amount of effort, to identify young people with considerable difficulties in mathematics lessons at secondary schools - and thereby ensure that they can receive targeted support. For this purpose, typical mistakes that are made by young people with poor maths should be identified and suitable task formats determined. The head office of the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy supports the project by giving employees of the University of Leipzig - under strict conditions - access to diagnosis sheets from the Duden Institute archive and by allowing the production of digital copies or the evaluation of the data contained therein.

As part of the “alphaPROF” project, LegaKids Stiftungs-GmbH created a free online training program in collaboration with David Gerlach, which is intended to strengthen the diagnostic and support skills of prospective teachers, teachers in the school service and extracurricular support staff.

Gerd-Dietrich Schmidt, the managing director of the Duden Institute for Learning Therapy, works as a lecturer in the field of practical management for the master’s degree in “Integrative Learning Therapy” at the Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education.

The Duden Institute for Learning Therapy also cooperates with the SRH Fernhochschule - The Mobile University Riedlingen to create state-recognized university degrees in the field of integrative learning therapy. From September 2019 the SRH Fernhochschule - The Mobile University will offer three university certificates for professional learning therapy. A master’s degree in integrative learning therapy is to follow in the coming year. The qualifications are also used to train one's own learning therapists in the Duden Institute system.

You are also a member of the Federal Association for Dyslexia and Dyscalculia eV (BVL). In addition, individual employees are members of the Association for Integrative Learning Therapy (FiL).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all locations
  2. ↑ Andrea Schulz: Learning difficulties in mathematics lessons in elementary school . Paetec, Berlin 1995, ISBN 978-3-89517-760-6 .
  3. ↑ Borghild Rehak: Lack of learning techniques - a cause of poor spelling skills . In: Elementary Education . tape 6 , 1997, pp. 26-27 .
  4. ↑ Andrea Schulz: Factual arithmetic with “arithmetic weak” children . In: Elementary Education . tape 11 , 2001, p. 21-25 .
  5. ↑ Jana Köppen: Why is sharing so difficult? In: Praxis Grundschule . tape 2 , 2004, p. 31-33 .
  6. ↑ Borghild Rehak: From the plight of some children with standardized writing . In: Elementary Education . tape 51 , 2004, p. 40--43 .
  7. ↑ Birgit Altenrichter: Diagnostics in learning therapy using the example of weaknesses in numeracy and reading and spelling weaknesses . In: H. Schäfer and Chr. Rittmezer (eds.): Handbook Inclusive Diagnostics . Beltz, Weinheim, Basel 2015, p. 462-477 .
  8. ^ Conferences of the Duden Institute system for learning therapy . DI L Learning Therapy GmbH. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ Lorenz Huck and Astrid Schröder: Psychosocial stresses and learning difficulties: Findings on the connection between reading and spelling weaknesses, arithmetic weaknesses and psychosocial stresses in a sample from a learning therapy facility . In: Learning and Learning Disorders . tape 5 , no. 3 , 2015, p. 157-164 .
  10. ^ Johann Osel, Matthias Kohlmaier: Dyslexia - How children suffer from learning disorders . süddeutsche.de GmbH. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  11. ↑ Adelheid Müller-Lissner: “You are fine!” . tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  12. ↑ Problems in math? Maybe you have dyscalculia! . BILD.de. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  13. ↑ Learning therapy: This is how your child can quickly connect again despite learning difficulties . RTL interactive GmbH. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  14. ↑ How do I know if my child has a learning disability? Hundreds of thousands of students affected . BILD.de. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  15. ↑ Kai Wiedermann: Every fourth student with learning difficulties is a victim of bullying . Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  16. ^ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: Duden Learning Therapy Study | Duden Institute. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  17. ^ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: HaLFa study. March 20, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Duden - Institute for Learning Therapy | igenda FRANCHISE ASSOCIATED GROUPS. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: Gold for the fourth time! May 15, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: Duden Institute for Learning Therapy nominated as “Franchisor of the Year”. May 29, 2019, accessed July 16, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Awards - again in 2016 . DI learning therapy GmbH. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  22. ^ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: Awards. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  23. ↑ RaSch - Framework for the acquisition of written language . University of Potsdam, Research Group: Heterogeneity & Inclusion. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  24. ↑ Where are the competencies and problems of (arithmetic) weak students in mathematics? - a cross-sectional analysis of grades 5 to 10.
  25. ↑ alphaPROF project . . David Gerlach (University of Marburg) and Britta Büchner (LegaKids Foundation). Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  26. ↑ Teachers: Gerd-Dietrich Schmidt . Center for Knowledge Transfer - Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education. Retrieved August 13, 2017.
  27. ↑ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy | SRH Fernhochschule. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Duden Institute for Learning Therapy: Our Concept | Duden Institute. September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  29. ↑ FiL Fachverband für Integrative Lerntherapie eV Learning therapists help children / adolescents with learning disorders: dyslexia (LRS), dyscalculia (arithmetic weakness), AD (H) D through individual support, advise parents and teachers. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .
  30. ↑ HMF-IT UG - http://www.hmf-it.de : FiL professional association for integrative learning therapy eV - members in FiL. Retrieved September 18, 2017 (German).