For those of you in the Champaign school district, one of the authors of a book
on the Nurtured Heart approach spoke at Barkstall school in the past month.
Also, Susan Zola, who is the principal at Jefferson Middle School, is a trainer
in this method.

Ann

Ann Osterling
Speech-Language Pathologist
510 South Staley Road, Suite A
Champaign, IL 61822

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From the FAQs of the book Transforming the difficult child>



My child has special needs. Will the approach work with him?
This approach is an excellent choice for children with special needs including,
but not limited to, ADD,ADHD, ODD, ED/BD, PDD, Autism, Asbergers, FAS, Bi-Polar
Disorder, Anxiety, etc.
Most often implemented in conjunction with other recommended therapies, the
Nurtured Heart Approach has been found to improve self-modulation, increase
impulse control and decrease behavioral problems, both in the classroom setting
and at home.


Munia.





Kristina <rath725@...> escribió:

Hitting, pushing, kicking, name calling - you name it and Collin's
doing it ALL THE TIME! We decided to have his blood work done again
to see if we're missing something in that department.

We found out that his iron level dropped to 20 - down from 36 - over
the past month. Dr. Morton has increased Collin's daily doseage and
has also recommended giving daily Alpha Omega-3 DHA supplements,
which we started on Friday evening.

The major thing Dr. Morton recommended is getting Collin into
behavior counseling with a child psychologist. All of the
psychologists at Carle's Champaign-Urbana campuses are booked until
late July (sigh), but there is a psychologist at Carle's Mahomet
clinic (Dr. Kathryn Fair) that had an opening on March 17th. She is
not a child psychologist and doesn't have a tremendous amount of
experience with children who have ASDs, but she said she'd be happy
to meet with us/Collin and collaberatively work with the child
psychologists at the Champaign-Urbana campuses to implement behavior
counseling for Collin.

Is this something any of you would do? Should we just wait it out
until late July to ensure that he's seeing a psychologist that deals
specifically with children? We booked the appointment with Dr. Fair
for March 17th because we think something is better than nothing at
this point, but I'm just a little unsure. Any advice or encouraging
words would be nice ;o)

Also, what do you do at home about the hitting, pushing and kicking?
I mean, it's to the point that any interaction we have with him, or
that he has with ANYONE, results in non-stop aggressive behavior.
Even his early childhood teacher and morning preschool teacher have
discussed with us how much more aggressive behavior he is
displaying. Granted, he has only been in those classrooms for a few
weeks (transitioning from a daycare center he'd been at for 2 years),
so I know part of his aggressive behavior has to do with the
transition. But I know there's something much more than that causing
all of this (call it mother's intuition!).

HELP!!!!!! (and thank you)

Kristina Rath




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