SERVICES PROVIDED
To achieve its mission the Center provides a variety of
services to the seven county area of the Magic Valley. including the following:
1. Consultation: This service provides a
half hour consultation from a trained professional for families who have
children with learning problems who aren't sure what they might be or where they
can turn for help. The professional helps families determine what might be
going on and what they do for a first step to get answers to their
problems. This service is provided at no charge. To schedule a
consultation appointment, just call the Center at 208 734-3914
2. Multi-disciplinary Assessment. This consists of full
evaluations by any one or all of six different professionals including a
psychologist, a speech-language therapist, an academic therapist, a social
worker, a physical therapist, and a pediatrician The professionals providing
these evaluations then meet together to integrate their information such
that the resulting diagnosis and recommendations take into consideration the
“whole” child. To schedule an appointment, first call the Center
and set up a consultation. At the consultation the number and types of
assessments will be chosen.
3. Academic Planning. This consists of teaching families to
understand their child’s diagnosis, assisting them to thoroughly implement
the recommendations made, and remaining available to them to help them
coordinate services for their child over a year's time. To schedule an
appointment, first call the Center and set up a consultation. Your need
for academic planning will be determined then.4. Student
Interventions: The Center offers low-cost
yet high quality, remedial academic instruction for children
with learning disabilities after school and through the summer in reading,
writing, math and study skills. See the Schedule of classes
for times. 5. Classes for children who have Attention Deficit
Disorder and their parents: The classes are divided into two types -
"introductory" and "full". The introductory classes
run for two hours. The intent of these classes is to give parents some
basic knowledge about ADHD and how it affects their interaction with their child
and to train the parents in some basic strategies for managing the child.
See the Schedule of classes for next class times. 6. Parent Education: Instruction for
parents whose children are attending the reading and writing intervention
classes regarding the curriculum that is being used and an introduction to the
brain basis of their children's learning problems. See the Schedule of classes
for times. 7. Teacher Education: Graduate courses are offered to regular
education teachers through Idaho universities in the LANGUAGE! Curriculum.
See the Schedule of classes for times.
8. Public Education: The Center maintains a loaning library of
materials for children with learning problems which is free to the public.
It also maintains an extensive list of community resources for referral
purposes and provides workshops and in-services on learning problems to the
community.
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