Academic Therapy Publications (ATP) was founded in 1965 by John I. Arena, an educator and therapist who started as regular classroom teacher before working with the physically handicapped. At age 30 he became Principal of Marindale School in San Rafael, CA. After that he was an instructor at the innovative Dewitt Reading Clinic. The foundations of ATP began with the journal Academic Therapy Quarterly, the first periodical devoted to disseminating information on learning differences to parents and teachers as well as professionals. During the 1970s John Arena also started the Arena School and Learning Center, which at that time was the largest private nonprofit school in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area. He was also heavily involved Read more