I’m excited to announce that San Diego Kids First is partnering with local schools to provide targeted services within the community! We greatly enjoy offering these services to school administration, staff, students, and families and welcome you to join us in our mission to maximize the developmental, social, emotional, behavioral, and academic potential of children [...]
We are partnering with local preschools to provide free developmental screens to registered students! While returning back to school has been an adjustment post-pandemic, nearly all of our normal structures and routines have been abolished or transformed into something different. New routines, processes, requirements, and expectations are in place. To assist in clarifying some of [...]
We are very excited to announce that we are offering TWO NEW ROUNDS of social skills group training between now and the end of the calendar year! We are thrilled to be able to bring back this group for your little ones since our last sessions over Summer! The first group will be for 6-8 [...]
As a parent, as well as a professional who works with children, adolescents, and their families, I’d like to acknowledge how long, winding and strange the pandemic road has been for all of us! Nearly all of our normal structures and routines have been abolished or transformed into something different—and often, not for the better. [...]
Sending your kids back to school can be tricky…. We are here to make your transition as smooth as possible! With San Diego Behavior Solutions, we will prepare your child to build healthy relationships with their classmates and teachers. Our in-home behavior interventionist, Charlie, specializes in several empirically- validated approaches that are incorporated into each [...]
We are so grateful to continuously provide in-home behavior modification for our community! Since the launch of our sister clinic, San Diego Behavior Solutions, we have witnessed countless family behavioral success stories. With the help our our behavior specialist, Charlie Aguilar, San Diego Behavior Solutions provides in-home behavioral health services to improve social skills and [...]
Great News! We've added to our list of services! We now offer four different levels of assessments! I am so grateful to have such an amazing group of clinicians here at San Diego Kids First. Your child will be in great hands with our spectacular professionals! All assessments will be conducted by either Dr. [...]
Our behavior specialist/ interventionist, Charlie has been practicing ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis)), the Zones of Regulation, Pivotal Response Therapy, and other behavioral and social skill interventions for 7 years! He has extensive experience in providing 1:1 in-home behavioral support and is proficient in current evidence-based practices and scientifically validated methodologies to help children of ALL ages (2 through teens) [...]
I have some very exciting news to share with you all! Anna Williams and I have just launched our new business, San Diego Behavior Solutions! Check out our website here Anna has been a clinician at San Diego First for quite some time now. Together, we noticed a gap in the mental health field and [...]
(Many thanks to my colleague Andrea De Marino, MHS, OTR/L for this article. For more about Andrea or occupational therapy visit her website at www.sensorysolutionsinc.com - Dr. Deb) Some children have a difficult time interpreting sensory information from their environments, whether it be from the sense of touch (tactile input), movement (vestibular input), [...]
