Our Services: What do we provide?

Most Educational Consultant have a specialty area, which is designed to help parents in the placement process. This is not a free service, but we do want parents to understand that being a consultant is a full time job that requires time and research.   The placement options by our servives specifically address working with families in the process of finding a school or program and this involves: researching a school, helping the family to understand the options they have and providing key information related to the services, we provide. This includes: 

· Opportunities to Meet with the Family:  Discussing with the parent and student the opportunities which affect the placement and making the recommendation to the family based on collecting data or doing an educational assessment, interviewing the family, sharing concerns and then working together.   Meeting wtih the family is essential to a good placement. Private schools and programs constitute a considerable financial investment for placement. Decisions regarding therapeutic schools or program invole making key decisions, which affect a family. It is important to know you and your child. Finding the best possible program and environment very important for our services, we want to take the necessary time to review all of your options and when a crisis exist in a family we want to make the right decision for the parent or parents. It sometimes is difficult to know if a particular school is appropriate without firsthand knowledge of the school and meeting and part of researching a school, and collecting information for a parent is key to the right placement. Therefore we meet with you and your family, individually,. to enable the process of helping you, by sharing our concerns and listening to yours too.

· Home Visits: Provide opportunities to meet parents and students for the convenice of their home and is generally more sucessful in a placement and allows the consultatnt to also do a complete a comprehensive assessment.
Home visits help parents and consultants to address the area or concerns for the placement at their home. We do have conference calls before meeting with students and often this eliminates, time and it provides dialogue between the consultant and the family and even providing "crisis intervention" when a family needs a consultant to address the student behavior. After we do talk to parents. the plan is to meet  you and to discuss the options we have reviewed.  We also coordinate tour to school so that parents are familiar with the schools we discuss, and arrange transportation to a school or program to enable each family to know the staff and the students and where they might want the student to attend. When there are concerns in the placement the consultant works this out with the family.

·   Sharing the information from the assessment so that  the consultant can work with  the family to make the best placement recommendation.   Most; school require some testing for admission either at the secondary or college level. but whatever the level or grade, t esting gives the consultant and the parent a clear picture  of the needs of the student.  The SSAT, SAT, ACT and TOFEL are just a few test which are administered to students in a range of placement from boarding school to college, but there are other testing which is more specific to special needs placement, which might help make a diagnosis for the consultant, which helps in a particular school placement. 

· Discussing Placement Options  
This phase is critical for most families in a good placement. We believe moving the student to a school or program and touring is very important in a good placement. The family simply needs to know where the student is being placed, and feel secure if the consultant has provided the correct setting it will work best for the family and students.Working with parents and developing a personal relationship with families to enable the families to be placed in the best setting. This process involves identifying the options for parents. reviewing the reason for the placement, and discussing the placement with the student and family. The entire process, from search for a school to admission, process to follow up is what discussing options is all about!

· Providing Direction for Families and Students including Follow-up.
A unique part of helping parents is providing direciotn toward careers. Many programs we discuss will address a specific age group and gendeer.  This is why in a placement the critical aspect of working with parents, is essential. We believe. Current trends in online learning may offer information on career planning which assist students.   However, with most students with special needs, a much broader placement might include: addresing learning differences. substance abuse, behavior managment issues in the home setting which are often discussed with the consultant. Some student might even benefit from online learning or elearning but we have to discuss many of these options with familiest to obatin a broader picutre of the students needs. A follow up generally involves visiting a program or contacting a family monthly.

Links for Boarding Schools. Wilderness Programs and Boarding Schools

Boarding Schools - Provide an opportunity for a student to live on campus. This is a unique opporunity for most students, because it provide traditional boarding, co educational boarding and single gender boarding placement.

College Placement: Offers a much different path for student, and require specific admission requirements to placement, Most consultant who do college placements. are familar with the school and programs, and this allow selecting a college more simpler and when the right fit. offers the student, and parent a larger option.