4827 Rugby Ave Suite 100
Bethesda MD 20814
Office: 301 657-1130
Fax: 301 657-1131

Behavior Problems
Improve Attention and Compliance
Decrease Aggression, Tantrums, and Defiance
All behaviors are a result of our sensory processing and emotional processing systems.  In order to help children improve their behavior we need to identify what the root of each behavior is.

First, we will identify your child's developmental profile.
-Identify their sensory processing strengths and weaknesses
-Identify their emotional thinking capacities
-Understand family dynamics

Second, we will develop a home and center based program to address your child's unique set of behaviors. 
Healthy development involves many areas of functioning, including intellectual and cognitive functioning, language functioning, social and emotional capacities, sensory and motor abilities, and environmental patterns. To promote healthy functioning, early identification and preventive intervention efforts must deal with all these areas of functioning in an integrated manner (including understanding relationships between them) (Greenspan & Shanker, 2004)
All of our programs work on the core capacities of,

-Self-regulation and attention (first 3 months and thereafter)

-Relationships (attachments) (3 to 5 months and thereafter)

-Social interactions, i.e., reciprocity and increasing social problem-solving (including multiple joint attentional frames, initiating reading and responding to intentions, and social referencing) (8 to 18 months and thereafter)

-Meaningful use of language (pragmatic) and play (with toys or other objects), as well as the meaningful use of ideas (symbols) coupled with the progression to logical and abstract thinking (18 to 48 months and thereafter)