Services we provide:
Developmental Services
Behavior Management
Individual Behavioral and Educational Plan Development
Family Counseling and Therapy
Consultation and Advocacy
Developmental Services
Developmental Services
- Behavior Management Plans
- Family Counseling and Therapy
- Communication Programs
- Individual Education Plan (IEP) Consultation
- School Consultation and Inservice Training
- Consultation to School Administrators, both Special and Regular Education
- Pediatric and Neurology Clinics
- Neuropsychological Evaluations
Service Delivery Model
- Home and School based programming
- Services delivered on-site
- Interdisciplinary Team Approach
- Short-term Therapy Model
- Center-Based Instructional Services
- Social Skills Groups
Research and Development
- Basic research in children’s cognitive development
- Experimental analysis of behavioral style
- Study of school integration for children with a wide variety of challenges
- Grant writing to support home and school based interventions
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Behavior Management
We offer the following services to help families and schools deal with
those children whose behaviors are interfering with the well-being and
developmental potential of themselves, their homes and their classrooms:
- Development of plans to manage difficult or destructive behaviors, such
as over-activity, short attention span, non-compliance to appropriate
demands, passive non-compliance and aggressiveness.
- Development of appropriate alternative behavior, including communication
and social skills, quiet play, compliance to demands, Activities of Daily
Living (ADL) skills and personal independence.
- Implementation of individual behavior management plans through classroom
and home observation. Training and supervision of family and school staff
in the use of behavior management techniques, understanding attention
span, over-activity and non-compliance.
- Formal instruction in Prevention and Management of Aggressive Behavior
(PMAB).
- Behavioral Assistants to aide the classroom teacher with particularly
hard to manage children.
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Individual Behavioral and Educational Plan Development
We evaluate the child's needs and develop an individualized program to
help further his or her potential in a home or school environment.
- Development of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) skills, addressing sleep
disorders, eating skills, toilet training, etc.
Administering formal neuropsychological and cognitive testing as it relates
to the analysis of learning profile and style and development of curricula
to meet the child's needs.
- Evaluation and development of communication programs with behavior strategies
to improve speech and language. Development of picture symbol systems
and augmentative communication programs when appropriate.
- Development of incentives and strategies to assist children to participate
in the classroom and other school or family activities which may present
difficulties for the child.
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Family Counseling and Therapy
Counseling:
- Services delivered at home and in real-life situations.
- Parents learn to set boundaries of appropriate behavior and get a hand
with hard-to-parent children. Toilet training, eating issues and sleep
disturbances are specifically targeted where appropriate.
- Home curriculum is developed to enhance communication and improve social
interactions with others. Individual behavioral and educational goals
are developed as they relate to the home.
Family Therapy:
- Coping with the uncertainties of difficult behavior.
- Dealing with stress on individuals, couples, siblings and other family
members resulting from a child's difficult behavior or disability.
- Developing healthy communication among family members.
- Empowerment of all members of the family.
- In home behavioral consultation and support.
- In home ABA instruction.
- Functional assessments.
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Consultation and Advocacy
For the Family
- Information sharing around the family and child's rights.
- Second opinions for families uncertain of the appropriateness of their
child's education program.
- Consultation to families and schools on the development of educational
programs.
- Networking with local, state, and federal family support agencies.
For Special and Regular Education Administrators:
- Development of specialized behavioral/developmental based school programs
for children with significant disabilities and/or hard to manage behavior.
- Development of inclusion programs to aid in the integration of children
into their community schools and regular education classrooms and returning
children from out-of-district placements.
- Development of programs for individuals and/or large numbers of children.
For School Administrators, Teachers and Parents:
- Evaluation summaries including verbal feedback and written reports to
families and school personnel.
- Interdisciplinary approach in conjunction with child's family and school.
- School consultation and in-service training in a wide choice of interdisciplinary
topics.
- On-site clinics in Pediatrics, Neurology and other medical sub-specialists.
- In-class Behavioral Assistants.
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