School struggles are hard for the child. They impact feeling about self creating stress and anxiety. They impact famly life too. With over 30 years working with families and students I can help. My experinece includes (1) prek-12 clasroom teaching;t(2) Childrens; National Medical Center Dept. of Psychiatry internship; (3) Psycholoigist & educational assessments for a child psychiatric practice,10yrs,(4) public school psychologist; (5) psychologist is a residential child treatment program; (6) former director of LDOnline; (7) Co-development and national trainer for GED state administraors on needs of students with disabilities; (8) Psychology Department university faculty over 30 years; (10) private practice therapist , special eeucation advocate & consultant 20 years; (11) researcher, and parent.
Working with schools I help provide: (1) Problem focused root cause analysis; (2) Analysis of assessment results; (3) IDEA & 504 eligibility help (4) IEP goal writing (5) Research evidence-based program analysis; (6) School comparisons. (7) Staff training; (8) Meeting attendance (9) document writing (10) parent learning seminars.
Roadblock removing skills include sharing (1) Understanding of regulations under IDEA and ESSA Acts; (2) Special education eligibility criteria for autism, dyslexia, developmental delay, intellectual disability, specific learning disability, ADHD and emotional disability; (3) IDEA vs 504 regulations, (4)How to organize data to attain services and to monitor your child’s reading, math and other academic skill progress.