Coaching Services
The life span of children with special healthcare needs and individuals with disabilities has dramatically changed and lengthened with medical advances. New opportunities contrast with limited services and overwhelming information. Parents, grandparents, and caregivers wonder what works for other families? I've walked in your shoes. I can help.
Perception Check offers one on one coaching to private clients or small groups. These are delivered in three 30 - 40 minute sessions per month, over the phone or in person. The cost is $230, including all 3 sessions, any email exchanges during the month, any offline work done on your behalf (information and resource gathering), and additional quick calls. Scheduling is at your convenience.
The following topics have been a starting point for my private clients and small groups
Feeling Frazzled... Juggling for Time
When the many responsibilities and roles of your life expand… healthcare coordinator - insurance negotiator - informed parent - education specialist - dedicated employee - it often feels as if there is not enough of you to go around. How do you meet everyone's expectations, including your harshest critic, yourself?
Content: Self -esteem, organization, creativity, reducing stress
Making Sense of Alphabet Soup
Are you puzzled by SSI, BVR, IEP, EOB? "What do they mean and do I need them?" Families touched by chronic conditions or special healthcare needs will be accessing systems regularly - healthcare - insurance - education - benefits to get what you need whether it is an educational plan that makes sense or treatment that will help. It is frustrating and tedious most of the time.
Content: Understanding health, resource, and educational systems
Play it Forward: Training for Transition
Just when you get the present challenges almost figured out…life shifts toward the next milestone - a new treatment - a new school - additional responsibilities - new independence. The starting point may be as early as entering pre-school to planning what is beyond graduation or moving out and living on your own.
Content: Transition planning, Federal laws, creating community networks, decision making, monitoring and sustaining the vision
Who Can You Count On?
Are you being transferred to a new city or are you new to special needs by way of adoption or custody? Have you just arrived in an unfamiliar community with parenting responsibilities and distant from family, close friends and familiar resources? Learn the "nuts and bolts" of exploring the resources available for families of children with special needs in your new location.
Content: How to identify what you need, locate the resources, and nurture and expand community relationships
Painting a New Picture
How we feel is not the consequence of what has happened in our lives, but is the result of how we interpret what is happening.
Preparing the Canvas
A safe place to explore the assumptions, beliefs, and challenges that come with your connection to special needs territory.
Content: Listening to personal story telling, self expression, venting old beliefs, emotional challenges.
Choosing the Colors
Frameworks are a way of thinking about something - just as color can be used for self expression. Explore new perspective related to accommodating disability and expanding your view.
Content: The big picture, adopting new perspectives and developing new personal frameworks.