• Individual Child and Adult Therapy: Utilizing play-based/ developmentally appropriate strategies through social-cognitive and behavioral approaches, the therapist teaches the child new skills, and helps to eliminate or replace unhealthy behaviors.
• Family Therapy: Helping families adapt to the demands of caring and raising a child with special needs. This may involve helping parents to maneuver through service systems (SARC, special education, private schools), developing strategies for improving daily living and/ or addressing the emotional challenges of family life/ roles and expectations, etc.
• Parent-Child Therapy: Parenting a child with special needs or a child who has trouble regulating their emotions, difficult behavior or learning differences requires assuming multiple roles such as one of a support person like a therapist. With young children, the therapist encourages parents to be present during sessions so they can learn the strategies or interventions. When parents learn the interventions and implement them day in and day out, real change happens and parents become increasingly more independent from the therapist.
• Sibling Support group: A support group for siblings of children with special needs. Siblings need support too and especially some respite time away from their special needs brother or sister. Download Siblings Support Group Flyer PDF.
• The ASD Parent Workshop Series: A 10-week program designed for parents and caregivers of children recently diagnosed with ASD. Download ASD Parent Lifeline Program PDF.
• Social Group for Teens: A therapist-led social opportunity for teens who need support with social communication and interaction.
• Consultations and training for professionals seeking a better understanding of how best to support the ASD child in their setting. (insert here: topics of trainings)
Services are tailored to meet the individual needs of the family and child.
For example, in a parent-child therapy session, the therapist provides modeling for initiating, supporting and sustaining successful interactions with your child, and demonstrates strategies for eliciting language and attention, building in sensory supports, and reducing negative behaviors.
