Consulting & Therapy Goals

Communication

• Listen  to understand

• Honest and compassionate reporting

• Prioritize remediation - most important supports first

• Refer to other professional for additional services

• Support parents and teachers who are trying to understand complex learning profiles

• Train parents to provide at home therapy

• Open with children about strengths and weaknesses

Assessment

• Comprehensive intake process

• Understand, not judge - not a pass or fail spirit

• Use observation and training to detect needs

• Understand roots of learning challenges for effective intervention

Remediation   

• Establish a positive relationship that fosters creativity

• Value the child and provide safe learning opportunities

• Individualized, intuitive, hands on instruction

• An environment where a child can inquire

• Improve social, emotional, physical and cognitive functioning

• Interact at a pace the child can manage

• Provide appropriate level of challenge - slightly ahead of current capabilities

• Highlight individual's strengths and use them to address areas of weakness

• Address lower levels of dysfunction (involuntary) in the brain so that higher cognitive levels (voluntary) are accessible to the child

• Focus on good process which will lead to better performance

• ​Provide support that parents or classroom teachers can't provide