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Individual Parent TEACCHing Sessions: 8 – 12 Sessions Model

Individualized Parent TEACCHing Sessions are designed to facilitate a collaboration/partnership between TEACCH staff and parents. A key to this collaboration is our underlying philosophy that parents know their child best and that TEACCH can provide information, strategies, and support to address the needs of their child. Individual parent TEACCHing sessions are available to parents of individuals with autism of all ages.

These sessions provide an opportunity for parents to learn ways of teaching their child at home, build self-help and other home skills including communication and social skills, as well as address behavioral concerns. Sessions are 45 minutes in length and are offered weekly. The number of sessions varies depending on the individual’s needs (typically eight to twelve sessions). During the sessions, an Autism Specialist works directly with the child to model suggested strategies and then works with the parent to implement these strategies that address parental concerns. For more able adolescents, intervention sessions may involve an Autism Specialist meeting directly with the adolescent while another Autism Specialist works with the parent in a separate room depending on the needs of the family.

Parents are strongly encouraged to attend the Chapel Hill TEACCH Parent Information Seminar prior to beginning individual sessions. The seminar is two hours in length and is designed to provide information about autism and structured teaching.

Our clinical services are provided as part of the UNC Health Care system’s UNC Faculty Physicians group. We currently accept the same insurance providers as UNC Health Care. For a complete list click here.   

Intensive Need Sessions

Some autistic individuals have intensive needs that require services above and beyond standard TEACCH sessions. Clients receiving these sessions typically have significant behavioral or emotional difficulties and have limited options for receiving services from other providers in their communities. TEACCH services may be available to provide more intensive and/or ongoing service to a limited number of clients. Typically, these sessions involve working with family members or community service providers to help them provide direct services to an individual with autism around a variety of issues. The ability to provide longer-term services is based on client needs and staff availability.

Our clinical services are provided as part of the UNC Health Care system’s UNC Faculty Physicians group. We currently accept the same insurance providers as UNC Health Care. For a complete list click here.

The GoriLLA Group

The Chapel Hill TEACCH Center is offering a group intervention model for autistic children and their parents. The “Growing, Learning, and Living with Autism” group sessions are intended for students who are primarily included in regular education in their school and have appropriate reading skills for their grade level. Students will be grouped by grade level: Kindergarten to 1st grade; 2nd to 4th grades, 3rd to 5th grades, or Middle School students. There will be up to a total of 4 children per group and at least one parent is required to attend each time. Click here for more information. If you are interested in learning if your child may be eligible for group therapy sessions, contact the Chapel Hill TEACCH Center via email TEACCH_ChapelHill@med.unc.edu or call 919-966-5156.

Our clinical services are provided as part of the UNC Health Care system’s UNC Faculty Physicians group. We currently accept the same insurance providers as UNC Health Care. For a complete list click here.

Facing Your Fears Group

The Chapel Hill Center offers a 15-week evidence-based group intervention for verbally fluent children and adolescents ages 8-14 in regular education settings with autism spectrum disorder. The intervention is appropriate for youth who need assistance managing anxiety that interferes with their daily lives. This group focuses on helping youth identify anxiety, worry, or fear and develop coping strategies to manage these symptoms and to face fears. The group gives youth an opportunity to practice these new strategies with the guidance and support of group facilitators.  Children must be able to learn in a group context and have reading comprehension skills at least at the third-grade level.  Parents are an integral part of the FYF groups and are asked to attend all of the sessions. A well-developed parent curriculum allows for the generalization of concepts and strategies learned in group to be implemented at home.

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Our clinical services are provided as part of the UNC Health Care system’s UNC Faculty Physicians group. We currently accept the same insurance providers as UNC Health Care. For a complete list click here.