"Empowering Parents to Make the Difference"
Services For School Programs
Many school programs for autism focus on academic areas and/or achieving behavioral control in the classroom. Children in these programs often learn academic skills and may show improvements in behavior at school, but may not learn how to socially regulate and interact, adapt flexibly to change, or appraise situations for the appropriate meaning. These areas are all related to the ability to think “dynamically.” These are core deficit areas of autism. A degree of proficiency in these areas is critical to achieving independence in life. Conversely, significant deficits in these areas will relegate the child to a life in which he is obliged to rely on others for support. The school team and the parents both have a responsibility in guiding the child to competence in these critical areas.
We offer assistance to school personnel in developing, both at the individual student level and at the program-wide level, objectives and teaching strategies that focus on remediating the core deficits of autism. These objectives and strategies would help the student learn social “experience sharing” communication, flexible and creative thinking, emotional regulation, self-awareness, social and environmental appraisal, and problem solving.
Services include:
• Assistance with IEP goal/objective development
• Assistance with implementing program-wide modifications to create an environment conducive to the development of
dynamic thinking
• Staff training at a program-wide level
• Individual staff training
• Ongoing periodic coaching
Services