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LEARNING SUPPORT CENTER
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Clinical child neuropsychology program
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Social and behavioral intervention program for toddlers and
pre-school children (Brief Evaluation and Intervention Program
(BEIP®)
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Social and behavioral intervention program for school-age children
and adolescents (TeamMates)
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Cognitive intervention and rehabilitation program
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Instructional intervention program
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Family therapy program
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Clinic for attention problems
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Program for autistic spectrum disorders
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This program identifies the neuro-biological
influences on a child’s development and recommends interventions and
treatments. Patients are generally referred to this program from other
physicians, usually hematologists/oncologists, neurologists, psychiatrists,
endocrinologists and pediatricians.
A clinical child neuropsychologist evaluates the child to identify their cognitive and
emotional strengths and weaknesses. The relationship between the child’s
brain activity and behavior is measured through standard psychometric tests
and other assessment techniques. The neuropsychologist then interprets the
information and develops recommendations relevant to the child’s home,
school and community.
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The learning support center offers a variety of
psychological services to increase the emotional, social and cognitive
abilities of young children.
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Group program
(Brief Evaluation and Intervention Program (BEIP®). BEIP® is an
intensive therapeutic and diagnostic program that treats young children with
a variety of
complex behavioral and emotional diagnoses. It
is designed to identify and use the optimal intervention approach for each
individual child to promote accommodation to the behavioral and social
expectations of his or her environment.
Other programs:
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Individual child
psychotherapy/individual therapy
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Individual and/or group parenting guidance/behavior management
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School observation and consultation
Social and behavioral intervention
program for school-age children and adolescents (TeamMates)
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TeamMates provides a variety of psychological services intervention for
school-age children and adolescents.
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group intervention program is a unique service that works with children and
their parents in separate but simultaneous groups. The specialists at Texas
Children’s Learning Support Center believe that group intervention is often
the optimal means to treat children with social problems. Group
interventions offered through TeamMates include:
Other interventions offered via TeamMates:
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Individual child psychotherapy/Individual therapy
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Individual and/or group parenting guidance/Behavior management for
oppositional-defiant behaviors
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School observation and consultation
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The cognitive intervention and
rehabilitation program at Texas Children’s Learning Support Center helps
children with brain injuries and cognitive emotional deficits to acquire
skills and age-appropriate behaviors.
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The learning support center
uses psychological and special education techniques to assist elementary-
and secondary- level students who are experiencing developmental delays or
learning deficits. Texas Children’s specialists help patients acquire the
skills and information necessary to achieve their academic and professional
goals.
A personal educational program
is developed for each student after a consultation with parents, an analysis
of prior assessment procedures and an evaluation of present academic skills.
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The family therapy program at
the learning support center helps families adjust after disruptive events in
their lives. Frequent sources of family distress include the birth of a
child with a developmental disability, adjustment to a child’s chronic
illness or disability, or adaptation to the death of a family member.
Each family is evaluated and a
customized treatment plan is formulated to assist the family. Treatments
offered include family crisis therapy, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral
parent training, marital therapy and family systems therapy.
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The Clinic for Attention
Problems at Texas Children’s Hospital assesses and treats children who are
developmentally unable to regulate attention. As a joint endeavor with
the Texas Children's Hospital Learning Support Center and Baylor College of
Medicine’s sections of pediatric neurology,
developmental
pediatrics
and pediatric psychiatry, the clinic takes a
multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis and to the plan for intervention.
Children receive a
comprehensive neuropsychological evaluation and medical examinations. Parents are also an integral part of the assessment and are interviewed
formally and informally by the psychologists and physicians during the
diagnostic process. The neuropsychologists and other physicians evaluate
the results of the assessments and cooperatively develop a treatment plan.
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includes a clinic that is designed to diagnose and treat children with ASD
and Bridges, a preschool therapeutic program. The Clinic for the
diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders is a joint endeavor with Texas
Children’s Hospital Learning Support Center, audiology, and occupational
and physical therapy departments and Baylor College of Medicine’s sections
of pediatric neurology, developmental pediatrics and pediatric psychiatry. The clinic uses the
Developmental-Individualized-Relationship (DIR) -based therapeutic model for
evaluating children with ASD.
Toddlers and preschool
children evaluated by the clinic may apply to
Bridges a
therapeutic program for preschool age children with ASD.
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