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Practical strategies you can use on your journey to raising a child with disabilities
How Can Circumstances Perpetuate Behaviors?
Many people look at behaviors and wonder why? Why is this child having such a hard time? I know when my son was 4 years old he was removed from school due to behaviors. He was home schooled for 2 months while we looked for a more appropriate out-of-district setting. What were his behaviors? Spitting on adults. Whatever the behavior you may be dealing with, let’s begin to take a look at the role circumstances play in a child’s behaviors.
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When my son was 4 years old, he was in the hospital for two weeks due to a seizure disorder. He hated haircuts but the...
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Get Support You and Your Child Need!
The coronavirus has consumed our lives. Most of us are at home on lockdown and isolated due to mandatory social distancing. Fear of what will happen with education, jobs, retirement accounts, and a looming major worldwide recession is enough to leave many of us paralyzed with fear and anxiety. The best thing to do is join together to help each other.
Pathways is here to help in the following ways:
- We have set up a dedicated email that you can use to ask questions or get help. We don’t know everything, but we have a vast network of people. If we...
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Melinda Jennis
Welcome! I am Melinda Jennis, like you I am a proud parent of children I adore and have a great vision for. My son has multiple disabilities and his path to success has been very difficult and cluttered with obstacles. He inspired me to start Pathways for Exceptional Children. One of my biggest passions for the last 20 years as a child advocate has been to train parents on how to help their children of all abilities be included and lead empowered and independent lives!
Dr. Michele Havens
Dr. Michele Havens received her Ed.D. degree from Rutgers University. She is certified in DIR/Floortime and is BCBA certified. She is a Professor Emeritus from Kean University and Montclair State University. Dr. Havens has provided training and services for parents and caregivers of children with disabilities from birth through adulthood for the last 40 years. She has also been a facilitator of several parent and sibling support groups.
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