Workshops/How To Work With Families

• Child Focus
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• Foster Parent Training - Options For Youth
• Inclusion in Schools: Real and Perceived Views of Full Inclusion - Dark Ages? Bright Futures
• Infants and Toddlers in Your Care: How to Nurture 0-3 Year-Olds in Group Care and at Home
• Learning and Teaching Styles
• Preparing Personnel to Work With Parents and Families
• Reducing Stress in the Lives of Young Chlldren
• Sample Forms for Teachers
• Ask Dr. Susan

Setting Real Life Goals For Your Family

 

Susan H. Turben, Ph.D. Presenter

Educational advocacy for full inclusion in today's school environments is a family/child right and a professional/community responsibility, which far too few communities and parents want or accept. Think of environments as places where the maximum learning takes place. 

Four Skills Families Need to Know to Achieve Inclusion in Schools

 

Skill #1   Cooperative family advocacy

Employing technology, teaching helpfulness, discovering universes and environments, reflecting family belief systems, understanding effects of personality, engaging community in cooperative ventures

 

Skill # 2  Conversational (chat room style) child and adult guidance

Instructing by means of adaptation and accommodation, brainstorming, situational problem solving, understanding the "no one right way" behavior

 

Skill #3  Collaborative home-school action planning

Mutual engagement, shared expertise, complimentary style, adult accommodation, child encouragement, behavioral support, talent development, goal setting

 

Skill #4  “ADULT CHANGING” Behaviors

Asking for help, catching good behavior, preparing encouragements, partnering, skilled assisting, learning differences and accepting differences.