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Make this your favorite resource for child development information and parenting skills. Your time is valuable! Turben Developmental Services offers quality solutions. We provide information and you choose what's best for your family.
Turben Developmental Services is a not-for-profit organization providing child development and parent education for adults and their young children as well as prevention and intervention services and technical assistance.
Susan Turben has M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees in Early Childhood and Special Education. She is a Cleveland-based child development specialist who has pioneered a number of nationally and internationally known programs for infants, toddlers and children 3 - 8 years old. She has been active in early childhood and special education, as well as Head Start and Early Intervention, as a parent educator and developmental specialist. Dr. Turben also has done extensive work with families and children with disabilities. She's had her own radio show and has been on many morning shows around the United States.
Her no-nonsense approach to parenting has made her a prominent expert in her field. This website is full of relevant information for both parents and professionals.
Teaching is not a dangerous profession for home schooled kids. They are trained to recognize workloads, not abuse, student-adult approval, not disruption, positive behavior, not watching the clock to leave! Student leadership is a parent- child partnership. There is a plan for creativity and work expectations in all areas of study , privileges to accompany good behavior and problems to be More »
Recently, I have enjoyed a 1960’S website hit on my hands! It is a photo of a family and me taken in the mid-sixties with whom I worked as a home trainer and teacher making home visits during the first decade of Head Start, when services for families whose lives were depressed by poverty, was at the top of the list More »