Communicating the Therapy Process with Prospective Parents

Communicating the Therapy Process with Prospective Parents

• How to effectively address a child's needs in a way that is professional and compassionate
• How best to communicate to parents how their child is wired for learning
• How to convey confidence and trust to the parent in their decision making process

"Communicating to parents what we do as educational therapists can be awkward...join me as we walk through a prospective student process from the point of first contact to providing parents with the vital information they need to make appropriate decisions."

About Your Instructor:

Donna Weston, M.Ed., NILD PCET, CDT

Donna Weston is Founder and Executive Director of Discovery Therapies, Inc. (DTI, www.dtiusa.org). She is not only an educator, educational therapist, NILD Board Member, and NILD Instructor, but is also a parent of a learning disabled and ADHD son. Donna started her educational therapy career in private practice, always with the vision of reaching the wider community through a clinic, which she started as her own private business in 2006, hiring her first two educational therapists and part time administrative staff by 2007. In 2010, she founded the nonprofit organization DTI, transferring all equity and services from her business to the nonprofit. Much of her and her staff’s efforts have been devoted to developing not only the best intervention services, but also establishing the processes and procedures that make DTI a highly reputable clinic in the metro Columbia, SC area.