En nuestro compromiso con los niños y sus familias, hemos diseñado nuestros servicios para apoyar la competencia y la confianza de los padres, generar conocimiento y restablecer la comunicación, fortaleciendo así las relaciones entre padres e hijos.
Reflective Parenting Group es un taller innovador de 10 semanas que brinda a los padres un modelo que les ayuda a ver el comportamiento de sus hijos como significativo. El grupo se centra en el temperamento, la disciplina, la regulación emocional y el desarrollo de una comprensión de los pensamientos y sentimientos que subyacen a las interacciones con su hijo.
Keeping Kids First reconoce que la separación de los padres es un proceso doloroso para todos los miembros de la familia, y que la adaptación de un niño a la separación de los padres, el divorcio o la paternidad compartida puede variar considerablemente. Este programa psicoeducativo ofrece a los padres que se divorcian medidas para minimizar el impacto negativo en sus hijos, teniendo en cuenta a ellos primero.
El Grupo de Apoyo y Educación para Padres es un programa de certificación aprobado por el tribunal y un recurso comunitario para que los padres y tutores aprendan y practiquen conjuntos de habilidades que pueden ser más eficaces para promover el funcionamiento, la comunicación y la cohesión de la familia. Se alienta a los participantes a hablar sobre sus experiencias familiares en un ambiente confidencial y sin prejuicios.
Our comprehensive accommodations assessments can identify your child’s unique strengths and weaknesses, provide an accurate diagnosis to understand what is underlying your child’s academic struggles (i.e., ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, other learning disabilities, depression, anxiety), and offer individualized recommendations for your child to succeed educationally and personally. Our detailed accommodations assessment report can help your child gain access to certain educational services and accommodations (i.e., extended time on standardized tests- SAT, ACT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT; testing over multiple days; enlarged font on test materials, use of a computer for writing test) at the school and college levels. Although our assessments are intended to determine whether your child is struggling with a disability and whether there is an educational need for services, at the primary and secondary school levels, a team consisting of school staff and a parent decide whether a student is eligible for special education services. With regard to Section 504, schools and colleges are ultimately responsible for deciding whether a student is eligible for services. At PEDS, we cannot guarantee that a school district, college, or national testing board will accept our findings and recommendations; however, we have been very successful with schools, colleges and national testing boards accepting our results, given the reputation of our agency and our expertise regarding how to conduct assessments that meet criteria.
Our evidence-based, comprehensive autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessments include a combination of gold-standard measures for assessing symptoms of autism (i.e., the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 (ADOS-2), the Autism Diagnostic Interview, Revised (ADIR), the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale-2 (GARS-2), and include an assessment of cognitive ability, social competence and social perception, language level, and adaptive behavior. Our ASD assessments also make use of various behavioral checklists as well as information obtained from collateral interviews with parents and other professionals in your child’s life. Our autism spectrum disorder (ASD) assessments can help to determine strengths and weaknesses that are specific to your child, recommend interventions that are appropriate to help compensate for your child’s difficulties, identify other problems (i.e., ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder) that may be contributing to your child’s symptoms, help your child access appropriate school services through special education or Section 504. Following the assessment, the professional will meet with parents to discuss diagnosis, referrals and recommendations.
Fees
Our fees in PEDS are competitive given the high quality and comprehensiveness of our services. We are able to offer a sliding scale for all of our assessments, with the exception of ASD assessments. Autism Spectrum Disorder assessments are not available at a discounted rate, given the specialized training and care required in conducting these assessments.
If you would like to schedule an assessment, or are considering one as a possibility and would like more information, please contact