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Don’t Miss this Great Guest
Speaker!  The Monarch
Learning
Center
is pleased to present John Robison, author of the bestseller, “Look
Me In the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s.” Mr. Robison will be
speaking and signing copies of his
book
on Mar.
5, 2007,
from 7-9 at the United
Way
Community
Resource
Center.
To register for this exciting Monarch event, and for more
information about John Robison and his bestseller, click
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Texas' Only Certified
DIR® Therapist is at
Monarch!
 My DIR journey started in July 2002
when I began working with a 5-year-old boy whom I will refer to as
“Sam”. Sam and his family were working with both
Stanley Greenspan, M.D. and Serena Wieder, Ph.D, the developers of
the DIR® Model and had just moved to
Houston to attend a private school
here. They were looking for a therapist to do
Floortime™ with their son. The caregiver they
hired knew me and told them that I “got down on the floor and played
with children.” Read the rest of Sharon’s story by clicking
here.
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Partaking in Their
Pajamas
 In support of parents attending Monarch’s
Miracle Makers' Morning Breakfast, students came early to school at
7:00
am in their
pajamas to share breakfast with their teachers. This made the
transition from home to school a little smoother and as the picture
attests, very enjoyable. For more
Apprentice Program stories, click
here.
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Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the
News!
We are
proud to announce that Apprentice Program Director Debrah Hall has
been conferred a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology by the Union
Institute and University. From her first year at The Monarch School
Dr. Hall knew she wanted to complete research that would offer the
world quantifiable evidence of the success that The Monarch School
has with its students. Read more about their and her success here! |
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Moving on
Up!
 Thanks to the M.D. Matthews Foundation for a
tremendous $1,000,000 challenge grant to help build our new campus!
The “two for one” grant challenged us to raise an additional
$500,000 before it could be funded.
Mr.
John M. O’Quinn and the Trustees of the John M. O’Quinn Foundation
recently helped Monarch secure the $1,000,000 donation by presenting
Dr. Webb and honorary co-chair of the campaign, Kathy Cullen McCord,
with a $300,000 check.
Read
more about this great news, and find out how you can help Monarch
continue to raise funds for our new campus, click
here! |
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The Play’s the Thing:
Using drama to address social
thinking and emotional growth
 A unique presentation/workshop integrating
clinical practices and dramatic play. For educators,
paraprofessionals, health and mental health professionals, O.T.s,
P.T.s, SLPs and parents of children and teens with developmental and
learning differences.
March
29th in The Monarch Learning Center by Charla
Cunningham, LMFT, RDT.
Charla
is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Drama Therapist in
private practice at the Pacific Northwest Pediatric Therapy Clinic
in Portland, Oregon. She was formerly a senior
clinical therapist and founding staff member of the Oak Hill School in Sausalito, California. Her focus is on using
dramatic intervention in order to boost social and emotional
development in children and adolescents, and to re-teach adults
(parents, educators, and providers) how to play fully and with
abandon, leading to the capacity for deeper intimacy and increased
relationships. Click
here for more details. |
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The
Monarch
School Summer Education Program
 REGISTRATION BEGINS for Current Monarch
Families on JAN 7,
2008. Click
here to register! (Registration opens to the public February
11th.)
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