Negeen Farida, EDM

Negeen Farida, EDM

Educational specialist

Negeen Farida is an educational therapist and advocate for individuals with learning and neurodevelopmental differences, as well as an expert in the application of cognitive training and rehabilitation to everyday life. Negeen also works as an educational specialist at UCLA Lab School, where she collaborates with teachers, parents, and psychologists to provide successful tools for inclusion including accommodating and modifying curricula, universal design for learning, and multiple means of representation and expression. Negeen has over ten years of experience working with clients in both inclusive and specialized settings.

Negeen draws upon her extensive background in education and cognition to offer applied cognitive training and functional rehabilitation to adults, adolescents, and children. She uses cognitive treatment to promote habits, skills, and strategies that foster attention, learning, organization, communication, behavior, and execution. She utilizes her background in education to teach clients of the relationship between brain health and cognitive functioning, which assists clients in implementing lifestyle changes to improve thinking, memory, and mood.

Additionally, Negeen offers educational therapy and comprehensive academic support to elementary, middle, and high school students, targeting reading, math, writing, language, and executive functioning. She has expertise working with a wide range of clients including those exhibiting dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, visual processing deficits, expressive language challenges,  autism, ADHD, and anxiety. She is also experienced in developing test-taking and study strategies, and in building self-esteem and confidence in students. Negeen’s added background in applied behavioral analysis and DIR Floortime helps her develop effective interventions for those with behavioral learning challenges. Her approach is playful, interactive, and focused on the individual needs of each client.

Negeen earned her Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a focus in Human Development and Psychology. With her undergraduate degree in Psychology and World Arts and Cultures/Dance from UCLA, she is uniquely positioned to offer instruction in academic as well as artistic settings, providing outside-the-box teaching methods to help clients learn necessary academic, executive, and life skills.

At The Integrated Clinic, Negeen provides educational therapy and cognitive rehabilitation.