Parent Training Series

Melmark Parent Training Series 

We are excited to offer you group parent training sessions on a variety of topics each week via telehealth. Our goal is to provide practical information and tips for how you can apply the skills in your home. Please see training topics below.

Behavior Management: Preventing Behavior and Teaching Replacement Skills

Learn strategies for reducing the likelihood of challenging behaviors and how to identify what skills to teach that replace challenging behaviors.

Behavior Management: Making a Plan: Responding to Behavior

Learn strategies for responding to challenging behavior. Learn how to develop a plan for responding to behavior.

Activities of Daily Living: Structuring Leisure Time

Learn strategies to help your child engage in appropriate behaviors and enjoy leisure time.

Activities of Daily Living: Teaching Self-Care Skills

Learn strategies that will help you to identify what self-care skills you can teach at home and how to do it.

Activities of Daily Living: Encouraging Good Eating and Sleeping Habits

Learn how to set up routines that promote healthy eating and sleeping habits. Problem solve common challenges in establishing good eating and sleeping routines.

Instruction: Reinforcement and Prompting

Learn strategies that will help you to increase skills in your child and further their independence.

Instruction: Tips for Distance Learning

Learn strategies for setting up a home learning environment and routine that supports distance learning while also maintaining your family’s well-being.

Visual Supports: Creating and Following Activity Schedules

Learn to develop and use activity schedules to help support learning, skill development, and routines at home.

Visual Supports: Use of Visuals

Learn how visual supports can be used in a variety of ways at home to support learning and manage behavior. A variety of examples will be shown.

Communication Strategies

Learn effective communication strategies and how to support your child’s communication at home.

To Sign Up for Trainings: Link to Sign-Up for Parent Trainings

Occupational Therapy Activity for home

Join one of our Occupational Therapists as she models an OT activity using a paper and pencil at home. 

Part 2

Remote Learning

April 3, 2020

Dear families,

I hope that this message finds you healthy and well.  In accordance with the Department of Education’s guidance on remote learning, and in particular special education, the special education staff have been working this week to begin our transition to a remote learning plan. 

Beginning next week your child’s special education teacher or service provider will be contacting you to discuss your child’s special education services as we begin to move towards remote learning.  Although your child’s services will not look the same as they do during our normal school day, our special education staff are committed to assisting your student during this unusual time. 

In addition, we will be offering a virtual team meeting option for those students who have Individual Education Plans (IEP) that will expire during the school closure period. 

We appreciate your patience and understanding as we adapt to this new model.  Please feel free to contact the special education office at 617-984-8743 or your child’s principal should you have any questions. 

Sincerely,

Erin J. Perkins

Special Education Director

Quincy Public Schools