PAS will explore your situation in detail referring to pertinent documents, assessments and reports. We would also like the opportunity to speak with the special needs student and his or her siblings. Following this review we will outline a strategy and a plan to follow. If we are retained by you we will detail the steps and stages of the plan and how we will work together to bring it about. At this point a professional fee schedule will be worked out. There may be some third party insurance available to you as a result of Dr. Forman being a Registered Psychologist.

The student plan may entail changes in the school setting including program, placement or service issues and it may also include services that PAS offers. For example, psycho-educational testing, providing an educational assistant, special needs tutoring, or ESL services may be useful for the student in question and they would be available through our group. We will liaise with school personnel to promote the best interests of the exceptional student.

Working together with parents PAS will explain the key elements of school advocacy as it relates to their child. We will provide support and backup throughout the advocacy process and will be available for follow-up at a later date.

In addition to our regular consultations and meetings we have implemented a communication facilitator called PAS-ON-CALL (416-381-3813) which will allow parents and students to access us on a pager Mondays through Fridays from 9-5 in situations of special distress. This procedure will permit us to provide direct feedback and arrange for consultation time if needed. We also can make available to you the services of an educational assistant.

To counteract one of the common experiences of special needs parents in distress, a sense of isolation, PAS is organizing a parent network in different schools in order to have an opportunity to share experiences with other involved parents. Also, we will pool the efforts of different parents so that they may be called upon to attend significant meetings at a host school where a parent needs the numbers to support her case. This is designed to lighten the load of all participants when they face a similar situation.

PAS can offer tutoring for exceptional students through our Tutoring and Testing Centre. Many of the tutors speak different languages.

Contact our Toronto office at 416-429-8511 or email support@parentsadvocacy.com