During Community Screening Sessions, the staff engages the visiting kids in fun Brain Highways activities. At that same time, the visiting adults participate in a mini-training to learn how to interpret what they’ll observe during their child’s lower brain assessment.
We then do an assessment of each of the visiting kids. All adults at the Community Screenings stay and observe each of the kid’s screenings. That’s because three main points are emphasized by watching multiple kids’ screenings:
1) As emphasized in the mini-training, kids will respond in one of several specific ways to each assessment challenge—and what they do is directly linked their current level of brain development. While it’s one thing to note such correlation in the mini-training, it’s quite another to actually observe that during each child’s assessment.
2) Age has no bearing on whether lower brain development is complete. For example, it’s not uncommon for the oldest child to show the least amount of brain development out of all the evening’s assessments.
3) We’re sometimes more objective when observing someone else’s child than our own.
Community Screening Sessions also provide time to ask questions and enroll in the program.
If you’d like your child screened, you need to submit a screening request online.
If you’re coming just to learn about the program (i.e. you do not have a child to be screened), still please submit the online form, but just leave the child’s name section blank.
We offer these on almost all Sundays. We generally post reservation dates two weeks in advance, so keep checking if the date you’d like to attend is not yet posted.
Once you complete the form and press submit, you’ll receive an automatic response that we have your reservation. You will also receive a reminder email a few days prior to the date you selected.
