These sessions are designed to help you analyze and understand your interactions with your child. In addition, you will be taught a wide range of techniques designed to harness your child s motivation and inspire growth. Dialogue We offer this invaluable tool for self-exploration to parents, older siblings, volunteers and assisting professionals in order to provide participants with ample opportunities to explore feelings which could inhibit their effectiveness in the program. You will also learn to use this process when you return home as a way to create a strong, positive environment for your family. This pivotal component of the program enables family members and staff to gather together and share their excitement, discoveries and experiences with your child during the week.
Staff create baselines and design resolutions about specific areas on which to concentrate.
This focused and inspired meeting also shows parents how to organize and direct similar meetings when they return home. Since our program is based upon a comprehensive approach to your child and family, we concern ourselves with every aspect of your child s world. After years of working with special children, we have designed an environment which is ideal for educating a child and encouraging their growth while simultaneously addressing the impact of noise, lighting, color and many other potentially distracting factors. In planning to direct their own program at home, many families choose to create a team of family, friends, volunteers and professionals who join together to support their programs. You will learn how to recruit volunteers, train others to be effective facilitators with your child, and conduct and supervise weekly group meetings.