Services offered
Intervention Development
A comprehensive assessment of current skills and areas of difficulty is the first step prior to designing an appropriate intervention. With that done, together you you, the parents, we can devise a tailored intervention package that focusses on both teaching new skills (like communication) and, if required, reduce behaviours that challenge or form barriers to learning. We can support you to find and train tutors to work with your child as well as varied levels of parent training as required.
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Once your support package in is place, we continually monitor progress and assess to make sure that the strategies that we are using are being effective and efficient. If they are, then we continue to do what’s working, if progress is slower than we would like, we have the tools to adjust or select different strategies. We will never leave a learner not learning. How do we track learning? In our science we monitor progress by taking frequent data to track the acquisition of new skills and/or the lessening of challenging behaviour, whatever the goals are. This is one of the hallmarks of the science of learning. During periodic team meetings (bi-weekly or monthly e.g.) evaluation and ongoing training takes place.
Ongoing Evaluation
Parent training
You may prefer to receive coaching on how to implement behavioural strategies with your child yourselves and there may be several valid reasons to prefer this. There are many studies to say that when parents are coached on behavioural strategies, then this alone can very positively impact their child's outcome. Parent coaching can take place in your home with ongoing evaluation offered either in-person or online.
1:1 Sessions
I also offer 1:1 sessions with your child, these are usually carried out in the home but may also take place at school or in another community setting. 1:1 sessions can either be in addition to your established intervention, to help set up and establish an intervention or, where appropriate, a series of 1:1 sessions may be useful in the short term. Small group sessions to specifically target social skills can also be arranged where appropriate.