Consulting: A Path Forward
Special Needs Services Navigation.
Case review, assessment, consultation, recommendations, and referrals.
Any of these services (or service providers), along with family life and community activities, can be part of the service package to support your child for and during the transition to adult life – employment, college, independent living.
You have to understand the why and the how of special needs service providers (why they exist and the regulations) before you can effectively ask for the what.
Who I serve: I work with families of young people from early adolescence through the early adult years, middle school through the college/ employment/ independently living years.
Middle school | young tween/teen years
High School | teen years
College/independent living | young adult years
Services we can review
Public school Special Education
Individual Education Plan
504
The Regional Center
Traditional system
Self Determination program
Department of Rehab
Student services/potentially eligible program
Employment services/vocational rehab
Residential transition programs
CIP
CLE
Mansfield Hall
Post secondary education
Community college
4-year college and universities
SSI
IHSS
Applied Behavior Analysis
“I wouldn’t even know to use all these services. My [student] was in a big school and had to drop out.”
CD – parent of college age student
I do not provide direct services or coaching to the young person but instead work with their family/important people to help assess needs, research service providers, and strategize a plan to address needs and reach goals.