Focus on Success
Focus on Success is designed to improve your quality of life by offering solutions to everyday problems with the intention of promoting success. We’ll do this one challenge at a time. If you are anyone who has executive function challenges, you may need to improve your time management, organization, planning, prioritization, attention, focus, memory or problem-solving skills. We discuss topics such as, what executive function is, and the most common ways executive function challenges will manifest in everyday life, in children and adults. We speak to professionals such as counselors, educators and psychologists who offer their perspective and professional expertise, as well as their recommendations to improve your life.
Focus on Success
Ricki Light Advocacy
Ricki Light talks about what to look for when hiring an educational advocate and discuses the difference between a 504 plan and an IEP.
BIO: Ricki Light, (Light Educational Advocacy Services LLC) has been an Educational Advocate and Strategist for the past twenty-four years. She holds master’s degrees in School Administration and Educational Counseling as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Bachelor of Education with an emphasis on Special Education. Ricki’s additional twenty years of public-school experience in Toronto and Los Angeles as a Classroom Teacher, Inclusion Facilitator, Behavior Specialist, Transition Teacher, and Program Specialist, have provided her with a comprehensive understanding of children’s diverse strengths and needs.
Ricki’s child-centered approach enables her to work collaboratively with parents, therapists, medical professionals, and school personnel to develop individual educational support plans that consider her clients' unique set of learning, social communication, emotional, behavioral, sensory, attention, and executive functioning needs.
Ricki also consults with school teams providing practical suggestions, training, and strategies that can be implemented to assist children with diverse needs in school. She has presented at conferences, locally, nationally, and internationally on topics to support children with diverse needs by empowering parents and school personnel to work collaboratively in the development of unique individualized educational support plans.
Ricki’s years of experience in Special Education have provided the skills required to help successfully guide families through the often confusing and complex special education support process.
https://RickiLightAdvocacy.com