CONSULTATION

For Parents and Guardians:

• Confident Parents Elevate the Discussion: Do you struggle to understand your child's profile and make sense of all the paperwork—evaluations, data, progress monitoring, and IEPs? Are you grappling with how best to support your child at home or at school, to understand her goals and objectives, her literacy program, or simply have questions? Is now the time to refer to special education? Would you like an objective look at her file and programming? Sky Bound offers a range of consultation services that help simplify the complex (and overwhelming) and enable you to participate in and advocate for your child's next steps with confidence.  Services include: file review, summarizing evaluations, review/ comment on draft goals/objectives, referrals to diagnostic services and service providers.

School-Based Consulting:

• Complex Profiles & Programmatic Review: Your multidisciplinary team is thoughtful and collaborative, but is struggling with a particular literacy profile or a complicated set of circumstances. The student is not making the progress you had planned for or responding to instruction as intended. The team could use an objective look at the data and/or programming, along with specific recommendations for a path forward. 

• Coordinated Assessment: Are you using the most efficient assessment tools to inform instruction? Could there be more coordination and/or streamlining of these tools among classroom teachers, interventionists, and special educators, and across buildings? Would your staff like instruction and training in using a specific assessment tool? Sky Bound Learning can help assess what is going well and what could be tweaked to make assessment systems for identification and intervention more efficient. 

• School-Initiated Parent Outreach: Would parents and guardians of your students benefit from an open dialogue about dyslexia, what it is, and what your school/building is actively doing to identify students at risk and to remediate?  Would you like to organize a round-table discussion or parent workshop at the start of the school year to get off on an informed footing?  Sky Bound Learning can facilitate the discussion and pave the way for greater transparency and collaboration between school professionals and parents.