Educational Consulting
We collaborate with caregivers, teachers, daycare providers, and school teams to support the social, emotional, academic, and behavioral needs of children. Our approach embraces Neurodiversity, aiming to understand your child’s unique brain functioning and create tailored supports at school to help them thrive.
At times, we serve as a middle person between you and the school, facilitating understanding on how best to support your child’s individualized needs.
Some of the children and families we work with seek support for:
- Learning differences
- Neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, etc.)
- Developmental differences
- Sensory needs and sensitivities
School Support
We meet with parents to provide support and guidance on advocating for your child’s social, emotional and educational needs at school.
Wherever you are in the process, we can read your reports, evaluations, 504s, and Individualized Education Plans (IEP) to provide you with guidance on how schools can best support the needs of your child.
Have you ever noticed that the IEP and neuropsychological report are each over 20 pages!? It can be overwhelming! We can provide you with a summary of school-based recommendations that are easy for you to read and easier for educators to implement. We translate all the jargon into main points and suggest ways you can support your child at home and school.
Additionally, we can attend your IEP meetings to help you understand your rights and advocate for your child’s needs.
As we often get to know your child and family well, we can also serve as a resource and sounding board as your child grows, develops, and encounters different needs in school.
School Observation
Do you ever find yourself wondering what’s happening in your child’s school while you’re not there? Or why your child continues to face challenges at school despite doing well at home?
With school permission, we can conduct observations of your child in their school environment. This allows us to identify classroom dynamics that may be contributing to your child’s behaviors.
Subsequently, we provide plans and advice for parents and staff on supporting your child’s social, emotional, and educational needs in the classroom.
We primarily conduct observations of children in schools and daycare centers located within Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds, and Lynnwood. Travel fees apply and are charged at $20 per 15-minute increment from our office location, which is displayed below for reference.
Current Clients Only: School Observation Consent Form
Available Packages
School Support Package
Our child therapist will meet with you and the school and provide recommendations.-
50-min Caregiver Intake
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50-min Document Review
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50-min Follow-up with Caregiver
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25-min Follow-up with Teacher
School Observation Package
Our child therapist will observe your child at school and provide recommendations.-
50-min Caregiver Intake
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50-min School Observation
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50-min Follow-up with Caregiver
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25-min Follow-up with Teacher
Add-On Options
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Play Observation $340
We observe your child's play in our playroom, school, or at your home. Includes 50-min observation and a 50-min caregiver feedback session.
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Document Review $170
We review IEPs, reports, evaluations or 504 documents to provide customized recommendations for accommodations at school.
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Written Support $170
We write a list of accommodations and recommendations for you and the school to support your child.
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Attend Meetings with School Staff $170 / 50-min
We participate in school meetings and collaborate with staff or caregivers regarding support for your child.
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Travel Time $20 / 15-min
Traveling for in-person meetings or observations. Billed at 15-min increments.
Example Written Support Document
We tailor support for your child based on our observations and discussions with the school, taking into account the feasibility of implementing our recommendations. If you opt for the written support add-on, we document our recommendations in a user-friendly format that can be easily edited and shared with teachers across different platforms.
FAQs
You will meet with a therapist for a 50-min intake where you share your concerns about your child. The therapist will dedicate 50 minutes to read through IEPs, reports, evaluations and/or 504 documents. Then, the therapist will have a 50-min follow-up meeting with you to share observations and provide verbal feedback. (A written report can be provided upon request. See Add-On Options.) Therapist will also have a 25-min follow-up meeting with teachers to discuss accommodations to support your child at school.
You will meet with a therapist for a 50-min intake where you share your concerns about your child. We will obtain consent from the school to observe your child. With school permission, the therapist will observe your child preferably across multiple environments (e.g., circle time, transition, and recess) for 50 minutes. Then, the therapist will have a 50-min follow-up meeting with you to share observations and provide feedback. Therapist will also have a 25-min follow-up meeting with teachers to discuss observed strengths and areas to address your child’s needs.
In some cases, we are not able to work with the school directly. In those cases, we provide you with the tools you need to advocate and support your child based on our recommendations.
The families we work with often express such relief that there’s someone that is overseeing and acting as a guide through all these processes. Knowing that someone else is providing support and guidance for next steps as well as strategies helps improve your confidence in understanding how your child’s brain works and improves your advocacy skills. While we may take a more active advocacy role at first, our goal is to equip you with the knowledge you need about your child, and your rights in order to best support your child long-term.
We most frequently work with children in preschools, schools and daycare centers located within Seattle, Shoreline, Edmonds, and Lynnwood. We are most familiar with the public school programs, but we also have worked a fair amount within private and charter schools.
Sometimes, we may ask for a video of you and your child playing to understand more about your child. Some choose to book our add-on for a play observation in our playrooms so that the provider can get a sense of your child’s individualized style and needs. Other times, the detailed reports we read give us a sense of how your child’s brain may work, and then provide you ideas, and use your knowledge of your own child to inform specific strategies we might recommend.
Yes! Even though we many not observe the child’s behaviors that you are most concerned about the, the therapist will still be able to note dynamics in the classroom and possible supports to put into place.
This observation is meant to simply observe the child in their natural environment, so as to see regular patterns of behaviors and interactions.