The Latest Happenings
posted by Sally Patton on April 21st, 2010 at 2:13 PM
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Dr. Ross Greene was the last speaker of the CSC Speaker Series. He talked about using his collaboartive problem solving (CPS) approach with children with behavioral, emotional and social challenges. I find it immensely compassionate and very effective.
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posted by Sally Patton on April 8th, 2010 at 12:21 PM
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I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
Tere Bowen-Irish spoke last night at our CSC Speaker Series. She described wonderful teaching ideas for kids, kindergarten through highschool. The focus was on using Howard Gardner's mutliple intelligences to help children learn. I was struck by how easy it actually is to incorporate the MI Theroy into teaching. Tere demonstrated how learning can be fun even if the child finds the subject difficult or if the child has learning or behavioral difficulties.
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posted by Sally Patton on January 15th, 2010 at 12:23 PM
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I want to inform you of some exciting changes in direction at CSC. We are planning two regional one day workshops for November 2010 and March 2011. These workshops will be called, "Building Bridges to Move Beyond Labels" and "Advocacy is Life Changing." Given these difficult economic times we feel these two full-day workshops will be a much more cost effective way to serve the needs of our target audience who are primarily parents of children with special needs and teachers with limited disposable income. We felt the national conference would be too expensive for our target audience and therefore have cancelled it and will hold these regional workshops instead.
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posted by Sally Patton on November 5th, 2009 at 12:02 PM
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I write a lot about seeing past the labels we give our children to seeing the whole child. However it is not just children we label, we also label and categorize adults. We think it feels easier to know how to interact with another person if we can first place him or her in a category then we think we know what to say or how to behave.
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posted by Sally Patton on September 4th, 2009 at 2:39 PM
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In most parenting workshops and books about children with special needs labels, time is spent on the idea that parents must mourn the loss of the child they thought they were going to get in order to appreciate the child they did get. It is a constant challenge to take what life gives us and find meaning.
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posted by Sally Patton on July 29th, 2009 at 1:36 PM
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I am writing a book titled Don't Fix Me, I'm Not Broken: Changing Our Minds about Ourselves and Our Children. It is a spiritual parenting book about healing ourselves rather than trying to fix our children. I just finished writing a section wondering what it would be like to see your child each day with fresh eyes as if for the first time.
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posted by Sally Patton on July 8th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
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The CSC Inc is promoting the concept of seeing beyond the labels we give our children to seeing the unique capabilities in every child. To start a national discussion about this concept, we are holding our first national conference on October 28-30, 2011 in the Boston area.
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posted by Sally Patton on June 16th, 2009 at 1:23 PM
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The CSC Inc is promoting a shift in awarenss in how we educate, treat, care for, parent, and minister to children who recieved the speical needs labels from the deficit model to the whole child model. What does this actually mean?
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posted by Sally Patton on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 PM
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The CSC Inc is trying to start a national dialogue to promote seeing past the labels to the whole child. We are raising money for a national conference called Beyond Labels to occur in 2011.
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posted by Sally Patton on May 19th, 2009 at 1:16 PM
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