Consultation and Education Services
Community Outreach Department

The Consultation & Education Services (C&E) is dedicated to informing the community about the educational and developmental needs of children. Through our outreach programs, we are helping to erase misunderstandings about individuals with learning disabilities. Our goal is to help all schools equip their staff to help these youngsters with the learning strategies and emotional fortitude to meet their educational challenges and ultimately succeed.

The C&E team is directed by a child psychologist and includes child development specialists, speech and language therapists, educational specialists, school counselors, and educational diagnosticians. Through the efforts of the C&E professionals, it is possible to observe a child who is struggling in school and to identify and design individual strategies that will allow the student to continue uninterrupted in his/her current school.

Consultation:

• Conduct on-site consultation services for specific children attending both public and private schools, pre-school through high school. Such services may include classroom observations, informal assessment, evaluations and feedback to directors, staff and parents in order to help school personnel identify and better serve children with special learning needs.
• Provide on-going consultation contracts (short or long-term) to both public and private schools who seek to better serve their struggling learners.
• Connect families that need additional support to appropriate resources (e.g. speech and language therapy, tutoring or counseling).

Professional Development Seminars:

• Conduct staff and parent seminars to public and private schools and/or agencies on a variety of developmental issues and education related subjects. Sample topics include:
  • Exploring learning disabilities
  • Effective instructional strategies for struggling learners
  • Behavior and classroom management
  • Effective writing instruction
  • Effective math instruction
  • Improving Reading Comprehension
  • Teaching vocabulary
  • Instituting school-wide assessment
  • The Individual Education Plan process
  • The Frostig Success Attributes
  • Selected topics in early childhood issues
  • The 5-day Frostig Summer Institute: Access to Reading

We strongly believe that NOT all children with learning disabilities need to attend programs such as the Frostig School. In-depth C&E support enables teachers to identify struggling students and expand their instructional strategies. Through our C&E team we make it possible for a student facing educational challenges to remain in his or her own school, when appropriate. As teachers expand their instructional methods they further enrich the educational opportunities for all students.

To truly help children with learning disabilities or those who struggle, we work to foster a collaborative relationship among all people and agencies who interact with these students and their families.

For individual educational support for students as well, see: Tutoring
For information about resources for learning disabilities see: Helpline

Roberta J. Goldberg, Ph.D. Consultation and Education Director

Jean Petersen  Administrative Assistant email Jean Petersen