FOR PARENTS
YOU KNOW YOUR CHILD NEEDS HELP, NOW WHAT?
EMAIL CHRISTINA AT: INTAKECOORDINATOR@ALABAMAGAMECHANGERS.ORG
STEP 1:
Contact Intake & complete Paperwork
Every school-aged child will enter our center through a medical office visit with our pediatrician. Call our office or email our intake coordinator, Christina. We will schedule your initial appointment after we receive your paperwork. You may downland paperwork here.
STEP 2:
INITIAL APPOINTMENT
This visit will include a detailed review of the student’s past medical and educational histories, along with a medical examination, as well as a review of any previous testing. At this visit, our physicians will discuss the reasons suspected behind your child’s struggles and recommend further assessment and/or treatment course forward.
Why is screening for Attention and Behavior so important?
- The initial screening process will include a formal evaluation of attention skills – the ability to focus, sustain, divide, and switch one’s attention between various tasks that may or may not be of high interest.
- Attention is usually assessed using tasks that involve auditory tasks and/or visual tasks.
- Over half of children with learning disabilities also have attention disorders. It is important to determine whether attention problems could be contributing to the learning difficulties or be the primary concern.
- Undiagnosed and untreated attention disorders may cause evaluations of academic, language, sensory-motor, or other skills to be invalid. It is very difficult to determine whether low scores on a reading test are due to attention problems or reading deficits.
- We will discuss options for addressing attention problems, if needed.
STEP 3:
GAME PLAN
- Students are scheduled for individualized assessments based on previous testing and recommendations from our doctors.
- There are varying levels of assessment available based on the student’s unique needs.
- Where one student may be able to proceed directly to intervention, another may need a more broad neurodevelopmental evaluation, to assess attention/focus skills, speech and language skills, sensory-motor skills, and processing skills.
- From these assessments our team will determine whether or not the individual is a good candidate for our extensive range of treatment services.
- After testing, we will schedule a report review to discuss results. At this appointment, you will receive results, next steps if treatment is recommended, and resources to support you as you navigate the road ahead.