Intensive Summer Literacy Program
The Intensive Summer Literacy Program is a fun small group intervention to build literacy skills in children with language and/or learning disorders. We use motivating activities and reward children for their hard work and their success. This program is great for children who learn well in supported group settings.
Early Literacy
For children entering Kindergarten. This program concentrates on skills necessary to be successful in Kindergarten: letter-sound knowledge, narrative skills, and phonological awareness. This program meets twice weekly.
The cost is $900.00 for 12 90-minute sessions. Initial and post-program individual assessments are also provided. There is a discount for payment at time of service.
Reading Fundamentals
For children entering 1st or 2nd grade. This program will strengthen your child’s skills in reading and reading comprehension, spelling, written language and phonological awareness. This group meets three times per week.
The cost is $1350.00 for 18 2-hour sessions. Initial and post-program individual assessments are also provided. There is a discount for payment at time of service.
Classes will run July 5 through August 13, specific times to be determined.
There is a maximum of 6 children per group.
If you have any questions or would like to enroll your child in one of these programs, please contact Valerie Vanderford, intake coordinator at 503-802-5281.
Circle of Security Summer Series
An eight-week parenting group designed to help parents develop new insight into the meaning of their chidlren’s behavior and create the most secure bond.
Mondays at 6:30p.m., May 3 – June 21, 2010
$25/session per parent or $175/series
Space is limited!
Please contact Mike Chewning, PNP at 503-802-5275 or Jo Hussey, LCSW at 503-317-7814 to RSVP.
Visual Helpers Parent Workshop – Part 2
Building friendships: Supporting your child’s play and communication*
*For parents who attended Visual Helpers: Part 1
Make and learn to use Visual Helpers in order to:
- Expand your child’s play
- Teach social rules
- Understand emotions
- Support verbal reasoning skills
When: Saturday, March 13, 2010 11:00a.m.-1:00p.m.
Where: Artz Center for Developmental Health & Audiology, 1675 SW Marlow Avenue, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97225
To RSVP for Part 2 contact Robin Jackson at 503-802-5318 or robinj@artzcenter.org or Katie Gray at 503-802-5274 or katieg@artzcenter.org
Positive Discipline Parenting Class
Parenting Your Child with ASD Through Positive Discipline
A Parenting Path with HeartSM
For parents of children with autism spectrum disorder who are looking for long-term parenting skills to help their children:
- strengthen their sense of belonging and significance in the family
- learn about feelings and ways to express them in positive ways
- think about social solutions for their everyday challenges
- show greater concern and respect for others
- become more responsible at home and in the community
Positive Discipline is respectful and non-punitive and will:
- provide parents with practical tools adapted for children with ASD
- incorporate kindness and firmness into parenting
- help parents understand the meaning of their children’s behavior
- empower parents with effective solutions for daily problems
- bring more joy into family life both at home and in the community
Instructors: Steven Foster, LCSW, and Arlene Raphael, MS, Autism Specialist – Arlene and Steven are Certified Positive Discipline Associates and have a combined experience of over 50 years serving children with autism and other special needs.
Dates: Seven Thursdays from 4/15/10 through 5/27/10
Time: 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: Artz Center for Developmental Health, 1675 SW Marlow Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97225, Suite 200, Conference Room
Cost: The cost for this 7-session class is $150.00 per person. If 2 people attend who are from the same family, the cost for both is $200.00. There is an extra charge of $25.00 for the Positive Discipline book and printed materials. Payments are due at the first class.
To Register: Contact Arlene Raphael at 503-679-1198, or via email at araphael@aracnet.com, by April 2, 2010 in order to guarantee your space and assure that a book will be available for you at the first class.
Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.
Attachment, Neuroscience and Early Brain Development
Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.
Local child and family clinicians participate in a collaborative interdisciplinary study group focusing on the latest research from the broad fields of attachment theory, neuroscience and early brain development, interpersonal neurobiology and infant mental health. This subscription group is now attending four yearly lectures by Schore.
Dr. Schore is best known for his book Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development (Erlbaum, 1994). This book broke new ground by connecting the intellectual worlds of human development, neurobiology, and psychoanalytic theory. It describes the direct links between emotional regulation, the earliest relational experiences that give rise to attachment, and anatomical, biochemical brain development, specifically right brain and right prefrontal cortex. Such core concepts have had direct impact on good psychotherapeutic practices.
This is and invitation group only. If you are interested, contact the Artz Center Medical Director at 503-802-5290 or dwillis@artzcenter.org.
To register for the June 11, 2010 event click here.