Tailored support and strategies for embracing human diversity.
Services for Parents
"Coaching is a process that aims to improve performance and focuses on the ‘here and now’ rather than on the distant past or future.
While there are many different models of coaching, here we are not considering the ‘coach as expert’ but, instead, the coach as a facilitator of learning.
There is a huge difference between teaching someone and helping them to learn. In coaching, fundamentally, the coach is helping the individual to improve their own performance: in other words, helping them to learn.
Good coaches believe that the individual always has the answer to their own problems but understands that they may need help to find the answer."
Definition from: www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/coaching.html
ACCOMPANIMENT SERVICES
My accompaniment services are based on a coaching model and always begin with working directly with you to understand your priorities and to determine your needs.
Together, we reflect on your personal goals as well as your goals for your child(ren),
and compare those intentions to what you are currenting experiencing in your day to day life.​
TThis process is what allows me to provide specifically tailored recommendations that are meant to accompany you in making the changes that you are ready to make.
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There are many ways that I provide accompaniment,
both in regards to session format as well as the strategies and techniques used.
Your tailored service can include both in person and online sessions, each with specific purposes and goals. Sessions may implicate one parent, both parents, the individual requiring extra support,
or even the entire family, based entirely on your personal situation.
​​​​​​​If you would like to discuss your situation and learn more about my approach and my process, you can book a free thirty minute consultation or send me a direct message, by following the corresponding link below.
PERSONAL CONSULTATIONS
​Personal consultations are available online for parents in any location on an as-needed basis, without requiring a needs assessment, to support you in your unique situation.
They provide opportunities for you to share your personal experience in a safe safe, with someone (that's me!) with over 25 years of personal and professional experience.
Together, we take time to reflect, exchange and brainstorm changes that you could try out, in relation to topics such as:​
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concepts and theories about learning and development in relation to neurodiversity and disabilities, and their applications to your situation
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things that you find challenging in your day to day
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applying professional recommendations, such as Speech and Language or Occupational Therapy strategies, into your reality
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realistic, step-by-step approaches that you feel confident using on your own to address whatever circumstances you're facing, including difficult and/or aggressive behavior
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navigating the different public and private support systems (ie. CLSC, schools etc.)
COLLABORATIVE NEEDS ASSESSMENTS
​Collaborative needs assessments are available to parents who are looking to work together with the support systems involved in their child's care.
Whether your child frequents a daycare, a school, a recreational program, individual therapy sessions, or lives in a residential environment, a collaborative needs assessment provides insight into your child's unique perspective, breaks down their needs, and provides specific recommendations for meeting them within their existing structure.
Through observations and discussion with the support system in their natural environment, you and the implicated individuals receive a detailed report with realistic and applicable strategies meant to enhance the current supports, more effectively meet your child's unique needs, or even address specific challenges.
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
STIMULATION SESSIONS
​I offer sessions to parents of children of any age who are having difficulties with communication
and/or who are not yet speaking verbally.
They are beneficial for those who are looking for ideas and strategies for how to support their child(ren) in their language and communication, especially while you are waiting for a diagnosis, or if you have just received one and are waiting for public services to begin.
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They are also beneficial for parents who have been in this for a very long time and are looking for a new way.
PARENT TRAININGS
​I have created three training series that are available to parents, each tailored to a specific need.
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They are designed to equip and empower you with information and tools that increase your confidence and efficacy in meeting the needs of your child(ren).
RESOURCE SERVICE
Being a parent requires energy at every turn, not only for providing direct care to your child but also to seek information and remain up to date on resources. Not to mention the energy required to take care of oneself, and to focus on your work and your personal goals and relationships.
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My individualized support offers you assistance in finding social and educational programs, residences and housing, job training, transportation training, leisure activities, protocols, procedure and laws relevant to your situation, available resources for your needs, and more.
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I can also assist you with the paperwork required to gain access to resources.
COMPANION SERVICE
My companion service offers accompaniment during outings, shopping, appointments, or any other setting when a second pair of eyes and hands would be beneficial.
AUTISM ACCEPTANCE
I feel strongly that one of the biggest hurdles for people with autism and their families, is society's knowledge, or lack thereof, of autism.
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My contribution to addressing this is through offering presentations and workshops for youth, teens, adults, schools, communities and workplaces that provide information to help create autism awareness, that through continued discussion will shift to autism acceptance and inclusion.
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I also offer a space here on my website in which people can share their personal stories in relation to autism.
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Don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to share your story.