Unlock Your Potential with Kids In Focus
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
- Tailored workshop based on your school’s needs
- Custom designed professional development materials and resources for teachers
- Examples of workshops
- Supporting Social, Behavioral and Physical Development in the Classroom
- Reimagining The Classroom Environment
- Behavioral Modifications
- Parent workshop about navigating the special education system
School COACHING
- Support individual teachers and teams with modifications and strategies for their class
- Provide appropriate scaffolding for children who need unique supports with crucial play skills, social engagement, and direction with connecting with their peers.and teachers
- Design classroom behavior management protocol
- Create individual behavior modification and intervention plans
- Support educators in fostering creative, individualized, social development programs in classrooms and schools
Social skills classes
The goal of the social skill group is to help nurture your child's personal and social development. The activities will be curated to support your child.
Some areas that are focused on are:
- Collaborating with peers during functional play
- Expressing emotions appropriately
- Resolving problems successfully
- Understanding and demonstrating empathy
- Reading non verbal and social cues
Unlock Your Potential with Kids In Focus
Parent support
- Comprehensive file and educational review
- Child observations in school setting
- Assistance for initial or re-evaluation planning
- Preparation for Early Intervention meetings, IEP/IFSP meetings, 504 meetings and other school meetings
- Transition support from EI to Committee on Preschool Special Education (CPSE), and CPSE to the Committee on Special Education (CSE)
- Referrals for services including SEIT, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Child Psychiatrists/ Child Psychologists (counseling and neuropsychological exam) and legal representatives
- Advising on school setting and in-school accommodations
- Support and coaching for Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings
- Participation and coaching for all educational planning meetings
- Review of evaluations to help create an IEP with tailored goals, objectives, and to suggest revisions and/or additions to programming
- Explanations and advice on types and amounts of therapy
- Provide recommendations for progress monitoring and timelines for assessments
- Support with mediation with school districts