Advocacy

Offered by:
DMS Consulting

Under the direction of:
DeeDee Spangler, MS Special Education

Phone: 619-886-2778
Email: dmsconsulting@san.rr.com
Web: www.astressfreeiep.com

DeeDee Spangler, M.S. is the founder of DMS Consulting. DeeDee received her Masters degree in Special Education from National University and her Bachelors degree in Communications from Ohio University with a Minor in Coaching. She also received a Certificate in Applied Behavior Analysis as a Behavior Analyst from National University in 2005. She has been involved in the San Diego Special Education community since 1996 as an Educational Advocate/Consultant; Behavioral Consultant; Director of a Multi-Sensory Therapy Center; Special Education Teacher; Home School Teacher/Supervisor/ Therapist; Special Education Classroom Assistant; Campus Behavior Specialist; current board member of the San Diego County Chapter of the Autism Society of America for her fifth year; and most of all, FRIEND.

DMS Consulting serves individuals who experience:

• Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Down's Syndrome
  Bipolar
  Landau-Kleffner
  MR
  CP
  TBI
  Rubinstein-Taybi
  ADD/ADHD
  Developmental Delays
  and other Learning Disabilities.

Training:

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped Children (TEACCH); Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), Pivotal Response Training (PRT); Floortime (Relationship Based Model), Brain Gym (sensory), Sensory Integration, Handwriting Without Tears (HWOT), Touch Math, Key Math, Teach Me Language, Blending Methodologies, Language! (special education language arts curriculum), Harcourt Math (a general education math curriculum), Visualizing and Verbalizing (V&V), BIP and BSP (Behavior Intervention and Behavior Support Plan), and PART-R (Physical Assault Response Training).

Assessments:

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS); Brigance (Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills); Analytical Reading Inventory (ARI); Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA); Bader (Reading and Language Inventory); Woodcock-Johnson III (WJIII); Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI-5); Conner's Rating Scale; Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (ABBLS); Lindamood- Bell Auditory Conceptualization Test (LAC); Receptive - Expressive Observation (REO) and CORE, and many other assessments often used by school districts and private practices.

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