Wilson, Barton, Take Flight, LiPS, REWARDS and Corrective Reading are not the same kind of object, and 'evidence-based' means four different things across NCII, the WWC, IES practice guides and ESSA. A practitioner's map of what the sources actually publish, and where the record runs out.

A practitioner's map of continuing education requirements across AET, ALTA, AOGPE, Wilson, CERI, ICF, PAAC, BCC and NBEFC - what each issuing body publishes, which hours are captive to one provider, and where the published record runs out.

No organisation confers a credential called learning specialist certification. A practitioner's map of the eight that people actually mean, with the requirements each issuing body publishes and the bodies that certify nobody at all.

Which executive function instruments an educational therapist can actually purchase and use, what each one measures, and the evidence showing rating scales and performance tests do not assess the same construct.

AET has no standard governing session one as an event. What it does require is an agreement before services begin, an initial screening, and baseline data on new clients. Here is how practitioners build the rest of the hour around those three.

No template exists for this field, so most practitioners improvise one. Here is the structure section by section — baseline data, measurable goals, a monitoring plan and written decision rules — with the AET and NCII source behind each requirement.

The professional layer beneath the business plan: what you can accurately claim, what AET’s Code of Ethics requires in writing before a first session, how records and referrals work, and the obligations that recur every year.

The full pathway as AET defines it: Associate ET coursework, the 1,500 direct service hours and BCET supervision behind ET/P, and what board certification adds — with approved programs, fees and realistic timelines.

Three titles that sound interchangeable to families, and only one of them sits on a documented credentialing ladder. What separates them in training, scope, and what you can accurately claim.