Parent Weekly Update 02/03/17

How can it be February already?  

Just to put it in perspective, the school year program is half over. October may seem like a very long time ago, but actually, we're at the halfway point and still have four months to go. This matters, because up until now, you have been learning and gaining skills to be able to help your child and support him or her in working to improve social skills. For some of you, this has meant working to improve attention, instructional control, or better manage your child's environment/setting. With that out of the way, or well on the way to being under control, it's time to focus more on helping your child improve and increase skills.

Mid-Program Progress Reports

In the next few days, we will begin sending out our midsession reports. We do them  mostly in the order that we received your Rapid Screener®  surveys. So, if you completed them right away, in early to mid January, you should be receiving your reports in the next week. If you didn't do it until the end of January or more recently, you will receive the report in about two weeks.

Upcoming Groups and Parent Meetings

This Week's Groups

The only group meeting this week will be the 8 to 11 year-old program, which meets on Tuesday, February 7.

This Week's Parent Meetings

Webinar: 2/8 7:30-8:30pm. If you have not registered for the webinar, click here to sign up and you will automatically receive reminder notices.

Drop In Meetings: We will be holding drop in meetings on the following dates in February (remember, these are held at the office):

• Wed, 2/8, 5:30-7pm (just before the webinar)
• Thu, 2/9, 11:30am-1:30pm
• Sat, 2/11, 10am-noon

Important Announcements

• Community Outings: We are beginning to plan our community outings.  Our first outing will be to Ultrazone in either March or April. I will publish more details in a couple of weeks and it will go up on the group  calendar later this week. The main thing to remember is to not listen to what your child says about when the outing is going to occur, but to confirm by looking at the calendar or contacting us.  Some of the kids get very excited about going and think that it is happening sooner than it is. Also, remember that when we do have an outing, that's where you will drive your child and pick them up on that particular day.
• Dr. Gale away at a Conference:  Many of you know that I am one of the training leaders for the Department of Education's PENT program (www.pent.ca.gov).  Our annual conferences are coming up at the end of February and again in mid-March. Dr. Mazor will run the 2/28 6 to 8 groups as planned
• However, the March dates for the 11 to 13-year-old groups has been changed. There will be group meetings on the second and fourth Wednesday of March, 3/8 and 3/22 (psst, We're going to UltraZone on 3/22, details to follow).  Just giving you advance notice.

Summer Program Details

In last week's blog, I presented initial details  regarding our summer programs. There are some significant changes compared to previous years and you can click here to read the details.

Signing Off

 That should be just about everything for now. As always, please contact me with any questions.