The New DIR-FCD Goal Bank

Name: The New DIR-FCD Goal Bank
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Presenters

Monica Osgood

Celebrate the Children’s founder, Monica G. Osgood, is an experienced behavioral consultant and therapist who specializes in using developmental approaches to support children with autism and other differences in relating and communicating. She is also the Founder and Director of the Developmental Center for Children and Families and Executive Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation. Monica has worked in homes, therapy centers, and private and public school settings for over 20 years. Some of her experience has included assessment and the development of intervention programs, curriculum and IEP development, and parent and professional training. In 1998, Monica created the first public school program with the Developmental Individual Relationship-based (DIR model) approach as the core philosophy. In 2000, she was the first educator to join the senior faculty of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning(ICDL) to provide interdisciplinary training in the DIR model. During her time with ICDL, Monica served as faculty for all of their yearly training institutes, spoke at many of their conferences and had the opportunity to work closely and collaborate with Drs. Greenspan and Wieder to further develop the DIR model in school settings. In 2004, she collaborated with Lauren Blaszak to open a state-approved, DIR model school for children ages 3-21 in Denville, New Jersey, now serving over 70 school districts and 130 families. Additional accomplishments include, many speaking engagements at conferences and participation in television, radio and newspaper interviews across the USA, Wales, Ireland and Amsterdam. Monica has appeared on Welsh Channel 4 and BBC1 documentaries, sharing the DIR model approach with British parents and professionals. Monica and the Celebrate the Children school were featured in a TIME Magazine cover story in May of 2006. She serves on the Advisory Board for 3LPlace and the National Advisory Council for The Centers for Exceptional Children. Monica also serves on the Economic Development Advisory Council and the Sustainable Economic Development Plan Steering Committee for her local Town Council. Finally, she collaborated with twice Grammy nominated children’s artists Dan Myers and Brady Rymer on an album and music video celebrating diversity in children with all abilities released April 2011. https://www.monicaosgood.com/

Presenters: Monica G. Osgood; Celebrate the Children School Staff

The NEW DIR-FCD Goal Bank provides IEP goals in a scope and sequence based on Dr. Greenspan’s and Dr. Wieder’s Functional Emotional Developmental Levels (FEDL’s). This plenary will provide the framework for using the goal bank including how to choose goals, use goals and data sheets to guide staff and parent interactions and track progress. Although the Goal Bank provides goals in a developmental sequence throughout the FEDL’s, the Profectum Foundation FCD principles and strategies, included at each developmental level within the Goal Bank, provide a comprehensive guide to maximizing progress.

This final plenary of the conference will use multiple mini-case presentations from DIR-FCD schools to demonstrate how the structure of the DIR-FCD™ Goal Bank yields consistent developmental gains in all students across a range of ages and socialemotional functioning. Each case will include goals from several developmental levels will illustrating how the (FCD’s) include tailoring the environment, interactions and experiences in a way that fosters the individual’s feelings of Comfort, Competency, Confidence, Control and Communication (5 C’s) as foundational capacities that support each person to maximize his or her development through the Functional, Emotional, Developmental Levels (FEDL’s). The FCD’s are pivotal in developing competencies where movement, motor planning, visual spatial thinking, motor sequences and communication lead to increased availability to, and participation in, the world around them to increase developmental success and independence.

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