About the McNatt Learning Center, Inc.
We help make people’s learning easier. We exist to glorify God by providing unified, targeted, and sequenced learning experiences to enrich learning, worship, and thanksgiving of every learner we serve.
With a focus on finding and addressing the foundational causes of learning difficulties including movement inefficiencies, ADD/ADHD/APD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, and Tourette syndrome, the McNatt Learning Center, Inc., employs innovative and industry-leading approaches in neurodevelopmental enhancement, sensory-motor training, cognitive training, and academic enrichment. Ability testing for assistance with career selection and a wide selection of games for cognitive improvement are also available.
Illinois does not license the kind of services the McNatt Learning Center provides. We do not provide psychological services, clinical counseling, nutritional advice, or therapy of any kind. Our services are educational, not therapeutic, in nature. In brief, we offer:
- Philosophical Counseling: We teach distinctions, which clients can use to better make sense of their lives.
- Neurodevelopmental Services: We coach clients in identifying the body’s stress response. Simultaneously, we teach activities that clients can use to retrain this stress response and to improve their awareness of and interaction with the world around them.
- Cognitive and Somatic Training: We train timing, awareness, memory, processing speed, and strategic thinking. We help clients become aware of how they are thinking and moving, and we work with them to discover how they might do so more efficiently.
- Home-School Support: We help home-schooling families teach the concepts and basic skills necessary for academic success. We do not, however, provide general academic tutoring.
- Our services are also Christian, not secular, in nature. The early church fathers drew from Plato and Aristotle in fleshing out their understanding of how to live well. Appreciating the fathers’ insights, we seek communion with God, teach respect for every person, and guide clients in prayer and Christian meditation, as clients desire. When clients seek moral guidance, we open the Holy Bible, in addition to reinforcing key distinctions we’ve explored in the course of their training.
If you would like to know more about our services, or have any questions about the above, please feel free to contact us.
About Matthew McNatt
Matthew McNatt's background is in educational
philosophy. Before getting into this line of work, he held
an Illinois teacher’s license for secondary education of
English/Language Arts. Besides the multiple professional
certifications he has accumulated over the years, he has a
B.A. in philosophy and English/Language Arts from Dordt
College in Sioux Center, Iowa. He regularly pursues
continuing education opportunities in somatics,
neurodevelopment, and neurophilosophy.