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Family Training Services

Our therapists offer home-based physical, occupational, and speech therapy to children and families throughout South Carolina.

Contact
svanderford@sc.easterseals.com
803-212-8971
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Meet Your Team

Here are just a few of our exceptional pediatric therapists. Visit our staff directory to meet the whole team!

Serena Osher
Serena Osher is a Speech-language Pathologist who provides therapy for speech-sound disorders, fluency disorders, expressive and receptive language delays, pragmatic language delays, AAC, and feeding delays.
Alley Treece
Alley Treece is an Early Intervention Specialist (Family Trainer) who coaches families to understand their child’s developmental needs, implements strategies, and helps build confidence in their ability to support their child.
Carolyn Anderson
Carolyn is an Occupational Therapist who helps children and families identify strengths and overcome obstacles to growth.
  1. Serena Osher is a Speech-language Pathologist who provides therapy for speech-sound disorders, fluency disorders, expressive and receptive language delays, pragmatic language delays, AAC, and feeding delays.
  2. Alley Treece is an Early Intervention Specialist (Family Trainer) who coaches families to understand their child’s developmental needs, implements strategies, and helps build confidence in their ability to support their child.
  3. Carolyn is an Occupational Therapist who helps children and families identify strengths and overcome obstacles to growth.

How It Works

Family Training is provided by an Early Intervention team member based on frequency/duration determined by the IFSP/FSP team. Typically, this service is provided 4 times per month for 60 minutes in the child’s natural environment (home, daycare, family member’s home, etc.).

It is our policy to meet Family Training frequency for each child as it is identified on your child’s IFSP/FSP. Each child is entitled to receive 100% of their Family Training time each month. We are required to offer make up and to provide your child with any missed time from cancelled Family Training visits.

What to Expect

You are the key player in helping your child’s developmental progression!

As a parent/caregiver getting the Family Training Service you will:

  • Be an active participant for the entire session. You are your child’s first teacher! o Ensure that no child should ever be left alone in the care of the Early Intervention team member. An adult caregiver (over 18 years of age) should be present at all times.
  • Communicate with your Early Intervention team member should you need to reschedule a visit due to illness or other scheduling conflict. It is important to maintain regularly scheduled appointment to see optimal progress for your child.
  • Never sign a form that does not reflect complete and accurate information.
  • Notify the Early Intervention Supervisor if you have any concerns regarding your services.

In the Family Training role, your Early Intervention team member will:

  • Use strategies from the Pyramid Model to work with you on the outcomes on your child’s IFSP/FSP.your child’s IFSP/FSP. The Pyramid Model is a framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development. This model respects that you are your child’s first teacher and we are there to support you in that role.
  • Work with your schedule to come up with a regularly scheduled visit day, time, and natural environment location.
  • Offer to reschedule all missed FT visits. Early Intervention team members are required by Federal Law to provide services at the frequencies and durations listed on the IFSP/FSP.
  • Ask you to work on at least one activity between the FT visits and will follow up with you on this activity to extend the learning opportunities throughout the week.