by gailcurran | Childhood Development, Educational Consultant, Learning Differences, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, Parents
Registration is now open for the 34th annual ATTACh Conference taking place Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in Anaheim, Calif. Gail Curran, the owner of Optimal Edu Options in Arizona, is a board member of the Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children. ATTACh is...
by gailcurran | Blog, Childhood Development, Educational Consultant, News and Views, Parents, Wilderness Programs
Your child is struggling, whether they are 12 or 24, and you need help. At first, you feel reasonably confident that you can find the support your child needs. So, you search the Internet. And you search, and you dig. The websites are lovely. You make calls to a...
by gailcurran | Blog, Childhood Development, Educational Consultant, Parents
CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION If you are a parent of an adopted child or a professional who works with childhood trauma, you will be very interested in this conference. I joined the board of ATTACH (Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children) in...
by gailcurran | Anxiety, Blog, Childhood Development, Mental Health, Parents, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Vaping, Video & Gaming Addiction
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 2020 9 AM-2 PM CHANDLER COMMUNITY CENTER 125 E. COMMONWEALTH AVENUE Parents and community members are invited to this FREE symposium on mental health in our youth! Events include comments by the state suicide prevention coordinator, questions...
by gailcurran | Blog, Educational Consultant, News and Views, Parents, Video & Gaming Addiction
We live in an amazing era of high-speed technological discovery. Tech is everywhere we live; in our schools, in our homes and in the hands of millions of youth worldwide. Our children’s dependence on tech now starts before they can walk and talk. For better or worse,...
by gailcurran | Blog, Learning Differences, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, News and Views, Parents, SSAT Flex Testing, Video & Gaming Addiction
2015 was a very busy year for Optimal Edu Options. Throughout 2015, Gail visited more than 50 programs —- Wilderness, Residential, Therapeutic Boarding Schools as well as Traditional Boarding Schools. In 2015, 11 states were traveled with several visits to Utah,...
