Family Support Services
Our Comprehensive Parent Training Program educates and empowers parents to feel and be more successful with their child with ASD. The training is filled with practical information and parents are given an understanding in typical development, how to improve quality of life for themselves and their child, how to understand their child with ASD, decrease problematic behaviors and promote positive, pro-social behaviors.
Parent coaching includes explanation and training that is relevant to their child in order to help support new skills and developments (e.g., communication, play, etc.) as well as address problematic behaviors. Recommended interventions and short-term goals are given as well as support, feedback and active coaching for the parents.
KGH offers family therapy by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker where the focus is to meet with the entire family in order to create a plan to support the individual needs of each family member as well as the family as a whole.
Raising a child with special needs does not come with a parenting manual and is often exhausting. The goal of this parent group is to offer education on important topics as well as to provide support and collaboration with other parents.
Respite care is a support services that provides families needed time to rejuvenate themselves. KGH can take care of your child as parents run errands, spend quality time with other children, go out to dinner, or just relax. KGH respite care providers have gone through behavioral training and are knowledgeable in techniques to help support any behavior plan the child may have.
A sibling session addresses appropriate social engagement, play and communication with the child’s sibling. Many times, siblings do not know how to effectively communicate and engage their brother or sister. Furthermore, work helping the sibling better understand their brother or sister is also addressed.
Being a sibling of a special needs brother or sister is challenging. Our special needs Yoga Instructor and Art Therapist will provide a relaxing and positive environment for the sibling to be creative and self-express through various art mediums, yoga, visual relaxation & deep breathing techniques and more. This program is just about them! Help them feel refreshed and learn positive thinking techniques.
