Adina Soclof, MS., CCC-SLP
Adina Soclof is a Parent Educator, Professional Development Instructor and Speech Pathologist working with children in a school setting. Adina is the founder of ParentingSimply.com. Her new book Parenting Simply: Perparing Kids For Life is now avaliable.
She delivers parenting classes as well as professional development workshops for Speech Pathologists, teachers and other health professionals.
Adina is avaliable for speaking engagements. You can reach her at asoclof@parentingsimply.com or check out her website at www.parentingsimply.com.
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Managing Defiant Child BehaviorFormat: Video
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Hours: 3
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Effective Communication for KidsFormat: Video
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Hours: 3
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Growth Mindset Versus Fixed MindsetFormat: Video
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Hours: 3
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Anger Management: Helping Parents Maintain CalmFormat: Video
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Hours: 2
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Executive Function Strategies for ParentsFormat: Video
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Hours: 2
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Hours: 2
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Anger Management: Helping Parents CopeFormat: Video
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Hours: 4
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Nurturing the Child with Special NeedsFormat: Video
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Hours: 4
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Helping Caregivers Manage the Difficult ChildFormat: Video
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Hours: 5
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Counseling Parents: Teaching Parents Effective Parenting Skills
Course Description:
The purpose of this 6 -hour course is to teach Parents effective and practical methods of discipline to use in their home with their children. Clinicians will learn skills to use with their own clients as well as information on how to counsel parents and teach them the skills as well. The importance of positive communication patterns will be discussed. Parents will be given hands-on instruction on...
Managing Defiant Child Behavior
Course Description:
Adults are often at a loss when it comes to handling defiance and power struggles. Some lecture the child on disrespectful behavior. Others ignore it, hoping it will go away. All parents find it a frustrating and annoying part of the parenting experience (the same may be said for many clinicians). For clinicians, we have only limited time with our young clients and we need to manage challenging and...
Effective Communication for Kids
Course Description:
Healthy professional and personal relationships rely heavily on effective and respectful communication skills. Professionals can benefit from enhancing their repertoire of communication techniques to improve the quality of relationships with families and children who have communication skills deficits. The competent use of language can increase young clients’ self-esteem, motivate them to learn, engage their willing cooperation, defuse power struggles, and teach conflict resolution skills.
The purpose of...
Growth Mindset Versus Fixed Mindset
Course Description:
Clinicians working with students struggling at grade level are committed to raising their student’s achievement ability by creating opportunities to learn. In this course, clinicians will learn new techniques that can help support, motivate, and encourage these students without enabling them. Clinicians can do much to minimize “learned helpless†behavior that many of these students exhibit. This course will indicate how to offer support to parents and partner with...
Resilience Training and its Role in Helping Young Clients Overcome Adversity
Course Description:
Health professionals are treating an increasing number of children who have difficulty coping with 21st century everyday life. Issues that are hard to deal with include excessive pressure to succeed in school, bullying, divorce, or even abuse at home.
This course provides a working definition of resilience and descriptions of the characteristics that may be associated with better outcomes for children who confront adversity in their lives....
Anger Management: Helping Parents Maintain Calm
Course Description:
As clinicians, we want to be in a position to help parents deal with any issues pertaining to our clients. We must find ways to support parent competence, serving as a resource for them (Czapanskiy, 2014). Parents require strategies to help them connect with and nurture their children. Most important, the support of parents might include assisting them in managing their own emotions, (Harvey, 2017), most...
Executive Function Strategies for Parents
Course Description:
This 2-hour course provides strategies to help adults and children overcome executive functioning deficits. As human beings, we have a built-in capacity to accomplish goals and meet challenges through the use of high-level cognitive functions called “executive functioning” skills. These are the skills that help us to decide which activities and tasks we will pay attention to and which ones we will choose to ignore or postpone.
Fool-Proof Ways to Manage Temper Tantrums and Meltdowns: Helping Parents Cope
Course Description:
Children with special needs are prone to meltdowns and tantrums for a variety of reasons. It maybe due to immature sensory processing; they may feel overloaded with sensations. Motor planning issues can cause inflexible and black-and-white thinking. Compromised language impacts on their ability to grasp temporal concepts like “later” or “tomorrow,” interpret cues for when activities are being changed and impairs...
Anger Management: Helping Parents Cope
Course Description:
The purpose of this basic, introductory course is to provide clinicians with tools to support parent competence, serving as a resource for them (Czapanskiy, 2014). Parents play a significant role in a child’s development. They require strategies to help them connect with and nurture their children. Most important, the support of parents might include assisting them in managing their own emotions, (Harvey, 2017), most particularly anger.
Nurturing the Child with Special Needs
Course Description:
All children need to feel a sense of belonging and significant in ways that elicit positive responses from those around them. Sometimes, a child with special needs can alienate others when attempting to have their unique requirements met. This results in the child feeling even more isolated and ineffectual.
Clinicians, parents, and teachers are thus required to adapt their interactions and look at the whole child, as...
Helping Caregivers Manage the Difficult Child
Course Description:
The purpose of this basic, introductory course is to provide clinicians with tools to support parents managing challenging/defiant behaviors in their children. A child who exhibits disruptive behaviors, even a typically developing child, can cause caregiver stress, low levels of perceived parent competence and satisfaction. This can affect the quality of family life, leading to anxiety, depression, and developmental delays.
An explicit focus on behavior and behavior...
Fostering Development in Children with Special Needs: A Guide for Parents and Clinicians
Course Description:
Children with special needs of any kind have the same need as other children to belong and feel significant in ways that elicit positive responses from those around them. And yet the ways in which they go about attempting to meet their needs frequently have the effect of alienating others and making them feel even more isolated and ineffectual. What is required is for us as clinicians, parents, and...
Recognizing and Managing Anxiety in Children: Strategies for Clinicians
Course Description:
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (2017), it is estimated that 40 million Americans suffer from anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children but is often not diagnosed. Untreated anxiety can lead to substance abuse, difficulties in school, and depression. Professionals who work with children, including speech language pathologists, mental health professionals, and occupational therapists, frequently encounter anxiety disorders among their young clients. This...