Educational Consulting, Coaching & Psychoeducation Evaluations
Kids First Collaborative offers educational services including executive functioning coaching, educational consulting, and psychoeducation assessments. If you are looking for effective services to help you navigate your child’s education or to support your child’s learning, we are here to help.
Learn more about our coaching, consulting, and assessment services.
We empower and support children and families.
Individualized PSYCHOEDUCATION Evaluations
We conduct individualized psychoeducation assessments of your child’s cognitive, academic, and/or social and emotional functioning. Our individualized evaluations begin with an intake interview to discuss your child's strengths and areas of need. Your Kids First consultant will then design an assessment battery based specifically on the referral concern. Before testing begins, our consultants may interview your child, members of your child's school team, and/or observe your child at school with your consent. Following the testing process, we provide a comprehensive psychoeducation evaluation report and can be available to share our findings with your child’s school team.
Educational Consulting & Advocacy
Navigating the school system can be overwhelming for parents and guardians, particularly when children need special education services. At Kids First, our consultants are highly experienced school psychologists, making us uniquely qualified to support you as you secure meaningful services for your child. Through a collaborative, student-focused approach, we will work with your child’s educational team to develop a data-driven plan that will lead to successful outcomes for your child’s educational career and future goals.
Our intake process includes a developmental questionnaire, parent interview, and a review of educational records. Your Kids First consultant will then meet with you to develop an individualized action plan. We provide both parent coaching and direct special education advocacy services. Outcomes may include the development of an IEP or Section 504 plan, revisions to IEP goals, additional accommodations and/or services. We also offer “ask the advocate” consultations for families who need immediate, brief consultation.
Executive Function Coaching
Executive function skills are essential for children, adolescents, and adults. Executive function skills include organization, planning, working memory, the ability to self-monitor, self-regulate, initiate, attend to and complete tasks. These skills help us learn and function efficiently at home, school, and work. When school-aged children struggle with executive function deficits, they often experience a great deal of frustration with homework, test taking, long-term projects, and even emotional control. The good news is that executive function skills can be taught! Our executive function skills coaching starts with an assessment to determine strengths and weaknesses and weekly coaching to help students track, plan, monitor, and execute.