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ADVOCACY services for concerned parents and
others
Key Benefits
 | No conflict of interest or confusion regarding the child's needs --
we are independent professionals |
 | Ongoing staff training, supervision, and total service monitoring, by
licensed professional psychologists |
 | 25+ years experience in Special Education, including ADHD, MR, DD, and
Autistic Spectrum Disorders |
Summary of Advocacy services
The staff of The Institute for Behavior Change
include a Certified School Psychologist, five Licensed Professional
Psychologists, and over 100 direct-service providers of behavioral support
and mental health treatment to children and adolescents. Privately and as
members of the Network for Behavior Change, the psychologists
have presented professional testimony at Due Process Hearings, conducted
hundreds of psychoeducational and psychodiagnostic evaluations of children of
all ages, and have been carefully supervising the delivery of EPSDT
"Behavioral Health Rehabilitation" (BHR) services for
many years.
The Executive Director of the Institute began providing
community-based psychological services in 1981 (more than 10 years before
the community-based BHR services model for
children's mental health treatment existed in Pennsylvania) and has been an effective
advocate for children with developmental disabilities, including Autistic
Spectrum Disorders, since 1977. By collaborating with and maintaining
collegial relationships with attorneys from the Education Law Center, the
Disabilities Law Project, and the Health Law Project, the Network psychologists
and Institute staff they supervise are
able to provide excellent advice and information to parents and others who are
seeking to protect and preserve the rights and opportunities of people with
disabling conditions, especially children. We have excellent working
relationships with several area child psychiatrists, have staff privileges
at a local general hospital with a psychiatric unit, and work with area
emergency placement settings for the treatment of children in
extreme crisis situations.
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