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Services - Family Centered Education and Resources
In family-centered care, parents and therapists become partners who assume different but essential roles. As a parent, you identify priorities and act as the experts on your child; your therapists are the experts in therapeutic technique and measure progress toward the priorities. Together, you and the therapist collaborate to develop the best possible program.
Family-centered services at or through STAR include
Parent Education
At STAR Center, we believe that every contact with a client or client parent is an opportunity to promote understanding of their child's sensory issues and effective strategies for handling them.
 Parent education takes place during every therapeutic session. Whether you are a mom or a dad or a grandparent, you learn as you participate in sessions as a "helper" to the therapist or watch your child in therapy from a viewing room adjacent to the OT gym.
In addition to this "built-in" education, five dedicated hours of parent education are incorporated into a typical 20-30 session treatment program. During these sessions, parents consult with the clinical staff with no children present to identify family priorities, give and receive feedback about the therapy process, develop take-home and community strategies, and provide advanced information about sensory challenges.
e-Learning from the SPD Foundation
e-Learning on the SPD Learning Campus is a unique online environment created specifically for web-based education. Classes are taught and vividly illustrated by sensory experts with decades of experience in researching, assessing, and treating Sensory Processing Disorder.
In "Making Sense of Sensory Processing Disorder: An introduction to SPD," parents
- LEARN the similarities and differences among SPD patterns and subtypes
- SEE the red flags of SPD illustrated in dozens of dramatic video clips
- WATCH as parents share their sensational stories
- VISIT the Resource Center to find books, products and more.
Click here for more information and registration for e-Learning.
The SPD Foundation is a nonprofit public charity dedicated to SPD research, education, and advocacy.
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