This is the company lense for Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond. We specialize in nationwide pediatric therapy and behavior management services for children ages 5 and under. Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond uses a family focused approach in providing early intervention speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ABA/autism therapy and psychological counseling in the greater Los Angeles area, Chicagoland, Connecticut, Northern Virginia / Maryland / DC, the New York Metro Area and continue to expand. We strive to serve our patients and their families by providing services and evaluations support in their predominant language, at both the home and community settings. This lense will feature article from therapists, workshops we are holding and opinions posts on the industry as a whole.
Bilinguals Inc. Is Spreading Holiday Cheer
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Pediatric Therapy and Autism Services will be spreading holiday cheer this year throughout all their New York branches. Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond understands how important the holidays are to the families and children we serve. In order to show our support for families that may be less fortunate we have partnered with other organizations to spread holiday cheer to the families we service on a daily basis. The New York City office and Hudson Valley office locations have partnered with Toys for Tots. This is a nationwide charitable organization our agency has partnered with in past who collects new toys to distribute to the needy children in the communities we serve during the holidays. The New York City office will be hosting a toy collection event named Winter Wonderland. The Hudson Valley branch will be used as a drop off center for any individuals that have unopened toys to donate.
The Long Island Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond office plans to make donations to the local Head Start programs and for some of the families they directly service. The Melville, Long Island office encourages donations of new pajamas (all sizes and genders /Infant-Adult), toiletries (shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc.), gently used coats (All sizes and genders) , gently used sweaters and clothing (All sizes and genders), gently used blankets (All sizes and genders), gently used toys, books and games for all ages and genders, non perishable food items including formula and baby food and all size diapers. The team has begun collecting items and will look to distribute them to the families the week of December 19th, 2011.
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond provides pediatric therapy and autism services to special needs families throughout the state of New York. They understand the obligation they have to give to families that are less fortunate to brighten up their holiday season. They are proud to donate to families in need and know that these efforts throughout the state will directly benefit the children we provide early intervention health care services to. Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond encourages other organizations to also find ways to help other families in their communities this holiday season. For more information on any of these charitable holiday events please feel free to contact the agency here.
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Hosting New Clinical Workshops
New and exciting workshops are being offered by Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond. They have added many new workshops in our New York City, Long Island and Westchester locations including a NYC CEU workshop “Speech Evaluations”, a Long Island workshop “Round Table Discussion” and our popular Intro to ABA course in our White Plains, NY office. The Illinois branch will also be holding at least one new workshop a month for parents and therapists to attend and our greater Los Angeles, CA office is on their way to starting workshops as well. All of these rewarding workshops have been added to their workshops web page on http://www.achievebeyondusa.com. The workshops are listed for each location with full descriptions, fliers, C.E.U availability and registration links as well. All of the branch specific workshop pages will be updated often, so please keep checking back for further updates on workshops offered in each of our offices nationwide including New York City, Long Island, Illinois, Virginia, California and Connecticut.
Here are some new workshops for you to register for today:
White Plains, NY Office:
DAYC- December 7th, 2011
This workshop in the Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Hudson Valley Office prepares special educators on how to administer and score the DAYC; interpret results; make recommendations based on percentages of delay; and how to record the results into a progress report.
Register Today Here
http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=278&Itemid=158
New York City Office:
Managing Small Problems Before They Become Big Ones – Dec. 8th 2011
This workshop will outline some basic behavior management strategies to use in a classroom or home setting. Participants will review the functions behind problem behavior. General strategies that can be used to prevent problem behavior from occurring and to increase productivity during teaching will be discussed.
Register For This Workshop Online Today: http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=357&Itemid=200
Feeding Workshop Parts 1 & 2 – December 5th and 12th, 2011
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond is offering a two part feeding workshop to help you continue to grow as clinicians. This workshop will help address your questions regarding specific feeding cases. Therefore we hope that you will make use of this opportunity and attend these workshops. Please note that you must register for both parts of the workshop.
Our speech supervisor Sonu Sanghoee, MS, CCC-SLP who has extensive experience working with infants and children will be conducting these workshops.
For More Information on this workshop and to register online visit here: http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268&Itemid=151
Intro to ABA / 4 in 1 – February 21,22, 23rd, 2012
This is a three day training that provides a brief introduction to a variety of topics related to the methodology of Applied Behavior Analysis. Topics include information specific to ASD as indicated in the DSM IV, the history of ABA, data collection, curriculum
development, functional analysis and techniques. In addition, the 4 in 1 training provides the combination of our Data Collection,
Table Time, Manding, and Video Observation workshops. Completing this workshop will fulfill the mandatory training requirement
for new ABA providers signing on with Achieve Beyond/Bilinguals Inc.
See more and register online at this link: http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=359&Itemid=202
Melville, Long Island Workshops:
Behavior Management – December 8th, 2011
This workshop will outline some basic behavior management strategies to use in a classroom or home setting.
It will review the reason behaviors occur (functions of behavior) and strategies to identify those functions of behavior.
For More Information on this Long Island workshop and to register online visit here:
http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=334&Itemid=183
Working Collaboratively With Culturally Diverse Families – December 13th, 2011
This workshop will give you the tools to work with culturally as well as linguistically diverse families. You will learn to be a Culturally
Responsive Provider with an emphasis on creating a family partnership regardless of language barriers and cultural differences.
For More Information on this Long Island workshop and to register online visit here:
http://www.bilingualsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=342&Itemid=195
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond is Exhibiting at the ASHA Conference
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Pediatric Therapy and Autism Services will once again be in attendance at the 2011 ASHA Convention in San Diego, California on November 17th – 19th 2011. This national convention is the premier annual professional education event for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Bringing together more than 12,000 attendees, the convention provides unparalleled opportunities to hear the latest evidence-based research and gain new skills and resources to advance your career. Come and visit our national early intervention heath care company at booth 401. We will have food, giveaways and great staff to speak with about future career opportunities. We look forward to networking with clinical professionals from far and wide at the conference. For more information on this conference please visit www.asha.org
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Hosting A Community Resource Fair in New York
The pediatric therapy and autism services company, Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond, is hosting a Resource Fair for service coordinators, parents and other pediatric professionals in their Melville, Long Island office on October 20th, 2011 from 1:00 pm – 6:30 pm. This resource fair will feature several presentations, an autism panel discussion and many local community resources that will be available to speak to as well.
This resource fair will feature representatives from the Down Syndrome Advocacy Foundation, Butterfly Mission, Dynovox, Parent to Parent, SCPD- Department for Children with Special Needs and more. The presentations for the day will come from the Family Advocate from the Children’s Community Head Start and from an OPWDD Representative. The Autism Panel Discussion will feature an Evaluator, BCBA, Speech Language Pathologist and more to host an informative panel you will want to sit in on. The discussions and presentations must be RSVP’d to here. There will also be a child play room during the presentations for parents that wish to attend.
This is a resource fair you will not want to miss if you are in the Nassau or Suffolk County NY area. For more information please refer to the flyer below or contact Grisel Aleman here or by calling 631-385-7780 ext. 610. We hope to will join us for this exciting resource fair that will introduce you to excellent resources right in the communities you live in. You can also view more at http://www.bilingualsinc.com
Achieve Beyond Metro DC Branch Featured in Washington Parent Magazine
The pediatric therapy and autism services company, Achieve Beyond, will be featured in the annual Washington Parent Source Book publication that is being printed in January of 2012.
This source book lists many valuable resources for families including special needs therapy service providers for physical therapy, speech therapy and occupational therapy. This magazine is distributed in many family friendly establishments including libraries, children’s museums, pediatrician offices and more.
Achieve Beyond is excited to once again be a part of this great source book and plans on being listed in future issues. If you are a special needs parent or know someone who has a child that needs early intervention health care in NY,CA,IL,CT,MD,VA,TX or NJ please feel free to contact Achieve Beyond at or visit our website http://www.achievebeyondusa.com Achieve Beyond wants to help as many children with special needs as possible and being in this Washington Parent Source book puts them in front of the parents that may needs their services the most.
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Speaking at Autism Conference
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond employees will be speaking at the Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence Based Practice Conference held at Hofstra University on Friday ,October 28th 2011. This autism conference is recommended for educators, psychologists, specialty area teachers, administrators, parents and anyone who has interest in the treatment of an Autism Spectrum Disorder.The conference will focus on educating students with autism spectrum disorders in general and special education settings and will provide current information on a variety of the research based strategies to facilitate best outcomes for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The conference will feature presentations on autism including topics such as but not limited to Evidence-Based Practices for Individuals with ASD, Assessing Reading and Individualizing Curriculum for Children with ASD and the Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond presentation on The ABLLS-R: From Assessment to Intervention. This presentation will be put on by the company’s own Anya K. Silver, M.A, BCBA and Anika Costa, M.S Ed., BCBA. They are both clinical supervisors for the early intervention healthcare company and have about 35 years of experience serving children with autism. Their presentation will explain B.F Skinner’s behavioral analysis language of the ABLLS-R. At the end of the presentation attendees should be able to administer the ABLLS-R, analyze the results of the ABLLS-R and use the results to develop long and short term objectives. To obtain tickets to this autism conference please click here. For more information on Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond’s Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) program please email here
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence Based Practice Conference
Date: Friday, October 28th, 2011
Time: 8 a.m – 3 p.m.
Location: Hofstra University
Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus
Support Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond in the Walk For Autism Help Aid Autism Awareness By Supporting our Early Intervention Company
We at Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond pride ourselves in being able to provide pediatric therapy and autism services across all 5 boroughs of New York CIty, Long Island, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Counties. To show our support for the children we serve on a daily basis, we participated in the White Plains, New York City and Connecticut Walks For Autism sponsored by Autism Speaks on June 5th, 2011.
The walk for autism was a fun-filled, family friendly event and is one of the most powerful forces to fund vital research that will lead to the answers so desperately needed. Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond had resource booths at both events along with free giveaways and insta-snow activities for the children. Our organization raised over $3,500 dollars for the cause and were able to network with families in need of autism services as well. To view pictures from all three walks please visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/achievebeyondusa. Join our Long Island teams and/or to donate to them by clicking on the link below. We would greatly appreciate the support.
Bilinguals Inc. Long Island Team
Bilinguals Inc. / Achieve Beyond Long Island Walk For Autism
Location: Jones Beach State Park, Field 5, Wantagh, NY Date: Sunday October 2nd 2011 at 9 am
Join Our Long Island Team Today http://www.bilingualsinc.com
Achieve Beyond Partners with CaringBridge.org The pediatric therapy company aligns with the patient social media site
Achieve Beyond today announced its support of CaringBridge, a charitable nonprofit organization providing free websites that connect families and friends during a serious health event, care and recovery. A CaringBridge website gives patients and caregivers a place to provide health updates, post photos and receive messages of hope and encouragement in a guestbook.
Achieve Beyond was established in 1995 and provides pediatric therapy, educational and behavior management services to children in families across the country including New York, California, Illinois, Virginia and Connecticut.
“Supporting CaringBridge seemed like a natural partnership based on our company’s family centered approach used when conducting our services,” said Jonathan Drewes, Marketing Coordinator of Achieve Beyond. “We strive to provide the best resources and information for patients and their families, and CaringBridge fits perfectly with that mission.”
Founded in 1997, more than 160,000 websites have been created through CaringBridge which generate over half-a-million visits each day. The CaringBridge community includes authors, visitors and donors in all 50 states and more than 225 countries and territories.
“Patients and their families greatly benefit from the ease of communication that CaringBridge provides,” said Sona Mehring, founder and executive director, CaringBridge. “Instead of spending time making phone calls and sending e-mails to keep everyone updated, their energy can be focused on caring for the patient.”
For more information, please visit www.CaringBridge.org or www.achievebeyondusa.com
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