Special Education Teacher at All MY Children-Child & Family Services - San Francisco, CA, US
Our Purpose and Goals:~To provide services to families with children with special needs and help meet the unique needs of those families with services, support and resources ~To provide early intervention services to children 0-3 with special needs/developmental delay and disabilities and their families~To provide services that assist in creating equitable environments for children such as school & camp integration, etc.~To enhance the development of children with disabilities and to maximize their potential ~To educate parents/guardians/caretakers on child's growth, development and particular developmental delay and/or disabilities to enhance their understanding and their responsiveness to the child's individual characteristics, personality and needs~To provide trainings on specific methods and tasks associated with daily living situations that promote the child's development~To provide education on social and emotional development, motor development, imaginative and dramatic play, early childhood learning and development, etc.~Help families of children with disabilities connect with community resources~Enhance the capacity of families to meet their child's needs. We use a combination of researched based methods and curriculum such as: Floor Time/DIR, The Affect-Based Language Curriculum, PECS, Hawaii Early Learning Profile (HELP), Applied Behavior Analyst methods, Discrete Trial and other familiar curriculums/theories that has been proven to improve cognitive, physical/motor, language/speech development, social emotional/psychosocial, self-help, behavior as well as interpersonal skills and overall development. The method or curriculum we use in each setting will vary depending on each child and family's individual needs and concerns.