Cynthia Harrison is the President of CommuniCare Therapy, a rehabilitation company that provides speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, registered dietetics, and social work. She is a speech language pathologist and her area of clinical focus is the provision of assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with autism, disorders of relating and communicating, global developmental delays and their families and is a well known public speaker who trains and educates clinicians and parents in North America and abroad. She holds a Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Vermont and a post graduate certificate in the DIR model. She is very active in her community and serves on a number of Boards and community associations.
Karen McDowell is an educator with over 25 years experience working with the adolescent and young adult population. She is an assistant faculty member of Profectum Foundation and strives to implement a comprehensive developmental curriculum into both her classroom environment and therapy work. As a Lead Teacher and Young Adult Program Coordinator at Celebrate the Children school for 13 years, she has contributed to innovative curriculum and strategies with the unique needs of individuals in mind while promoting opportunities for growth and development in both group and individual settings. Karen facilitates a weekly young adult group for several years with intensive focus on social and emotional strengths and challenges. Areas of interest and study include executive functioning, visual spatial processing, emotional regulation, and problem solving and she has provided workshops around the country on these developmental areas. Karen strives to provide programs that entice thinking, collaborative problem solving, effective communication, and positive coping strategies to support success, independence, meaningful and fulfilling experiences, and happiness within the demands of the 21st century.
Cindy Harrison, M.Sc. – Reg. CASLPO; Karen McDowell, MA
This workshop will explore the opportunities for collaboration between the principles of speech language and communication and the classroom team utilizing DIR-FCD™ model principles. The workshop will focus on every day strategies that can be applied in the educational setting. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to identify strategies to support working memory, social communication, comprehension, non-verbal and verbal communication.
Cindy Harrison, M.Sc. – Reg. CASLPO; Karen McDowell, MA
This workshop will explore the opportunities for collaboration between the principles of speech language and communication and the classroom team utilizing DIR-FCD™ model principles. The workshop will focus on every day strategies that can be applied in the educational setting. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to identify strategies to support working memory, social communication, comprehension, non-verbal and verbal communication.
Although all providers in this directory have completed one or more of Profectum’s certificate training courses on the DIR-FCD model, the providers listed in this directory are independent contractors. Providers are not agents nor are they employees and nor are they under the control of Profectum Foundation. Providers are solely responsible for the quality of the services you receive.
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