These days, private schools are having to compete for each and every student enrolled. Oftentimes, families are looking for schools that can provide special services. Our team has the knowledge and experience to help private school administrators who are interested in providing special services for struggling students. We can help you establish practices and procedures for: Identification of…
Author: Monte W. Davenport, Ph.D.
For 25 years, Dr. Davenport's career has been focused on helping improve the lives of children, teens, college students, and families struggling with ADHD, anxiety, OCD, depression, oppositional-defiant behavior, learning disorders, and related executive functioning challenges. Call 817.421.8780 to find out how he can help you.
What about Continuous Performance Tasks for ADHD?
No, we do not administer these expensive type tests because they are not yet approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Our evaluation focuses on evidence based information gathering from the people who know your child the best – parents and teachers – through clinical interview…
Downloadable Behavior Chart
This behavior chart can be used to encourage your child to change and develop all kinds of behaviors. Suggestions for using this tool are also provided.
Educational Care: Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology (AT) tools can help accommodate your child or teen’s attention, learning, fine motor coordination, and executive functioning challenges while emphasizing his or her abilities. The use of technology is especially helpful when struggling students can use their strengths to work around their challenges. Assistive technology is defined as any device, equipment, or system…
Positive Behavior Management in the Classroom
Difficult classroom behavior is often difficult to manage. “Behavior” as it is used here includes not only over-activity and impulsiveness, but also distractibility and day-dreaming. For example, embarrassing a day-dreaming child in front of his peers is not positive behavior management. Writing comments in red ink on graded assignments like, “Didn’t you pay attention to the instructions in class?” is not positive behavior managment. Instead, consider these alternatives.
Counseling
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps children, teens, adults, and families struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and trauma. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Dr. Davenport utilizes research-based psychotherapies to…
Counseling
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps adults and families struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, forgiveness, adjustment to change, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Counseling can help adults and families understand and resolve problems,…
Child, Teen, and Family Counseling
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps families, children, and adolescents struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, forgiveness, adjustment to change, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Counseling can help children, adolescents, …
Counseling for Teens
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps teens and families struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, mood disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, substance abuse, and trauma. Also known as psychotherapy, counseling is a form of treatment that involves therapeutic conversations and interactions between a therapist and an individual or family. Dr. Davenport utilizes research-based psychotherapies to help teens…
Counseling for Children & Families
Counseling utilizing research-proven techniques helps children and their families struggling with anxiety, depression, adjustment to change, and mood disorders.
Parenting Success for Parents of Teens
Parenting Success! is not a “parenting class.” It is a structured individualized process based on research-proven cognitive-behavior therapy: During each session, parents learn a specific behavior management skill. During the time between sessions, parents practice that specific skill. At the beginning of each session, successes are celebrated and problems are solved. Objectives of Parenting Success…