Programming Available

Emotional, mental and cognitive

1. Reflect about their day… good/bad day

2. Recognize that they are becoming angry & how to defuse the anger.

3. Awareness of body needs & surroundings

4. Recognize own emotional feelings

5. Appropriate expression of needs & feelings i.e. anger

6. Relationship development with family & peers

7. Social skills—

   1. table manners

   2. hygiene

   3. appropriate table conversation

   4. politeness

   5. how to act in public

8. Sharing—a recent positive experience

   1. Stand in front of group using good posture & eye contact.

   2. Ask and answer questions

9. Summarize—a weekend activity, a favorite activity, a story

   1. Stand in front of group using good posture & eye contact.

   2. Public speaking

10.  Group dynamics—working in small to large groups

    1. Express own thoughts

    2. Turn taking

    3. Respect others input

    4. Discuss & settle disagreements

11.  Acceptance of own disability—strengths and disadvantages

12.  Acceptance of other type of disabilities

13.  Play with different age children

14.  Create & build an imagination

15.  Teach concept of time & space

16.  Teach problem solving—step by step

17.  Develop a sense of self, purpose & build bridges of communication

18.   Teach & role play what to do when overwhelmed

19.  Teach & re-teach cause & effect

20.  Consistent positive & negative (when needed) consequences

21.  Develop & build attachment to the mother

    1. Discuss the feelings of grief, loss, and abandonment

    2. Discuss their feeling of hate toward the birth mom for not being able to care for them.

22.  Provide on-going support for the family

    1. weekend respite

    2. stay beyond closing time until the vans pick up the child

    3. parent support group

    4. Provide a listening ear for parents

    5. Brainstorm and create parenting ideas

    6. Have a lending library of books, videos and tapes from the top experts in the field of attachment and behavior

23.      Safety—on-going discussion on safe & unsafe situations.  They would go with a stranger of unsafe known person.  They can quote rules yet the next second do the complete opposite.  These children are never left unsupervised. 

Physical

1. Neurodevelopment program that address—

1. stimulate the vestibular system

2. stimulate the sensory system

3. inhibit missed or halted reflexes

4. Visual & auditory perception

5. Long & short term memory

6. Hand-eye coordination

7. Integrate the tactile system into the other sense to develop smooth, automatic movements.

8. Problem solving

9. Develop & strengthen fine & gross motor skills

10. Build and strengthen endurance and maintance of motor skills

11. Stimulate & reorganize the brain stem (pons, medulla, midbrain)

2. Cortex

   1. Teach all academic subjects at each child’s level using as many multi-sensory methods as possible.  We’ve even come up with a few new ones!

   2. Teach and reinforce reasoning, logic and abstract thinking

   3. Teach visualization skills

3. Boot Camp Carli—Physical education exercises

4. Diet, nutrition & wellness

5. Safety—Teach & re-teach ‘stranger danger’.  The children are never left unsupervised.  Due to the brain damage they don’t understand cause-effect.

6. AVE Neurofeedback 25 minutes daily