Q: What is A Chance To Grow (ACTG)?
A: A Chance To Grow is a non-profit 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) agency dedicated to helping children with learning problems, developmental delays and brain injuries reach their highest potential. The agency promotes the maximum development of the whole child through educational, therapeutic and rehabilitative programs and services.
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Q: How many programs and departments are there at A Chance To Grow?
A: A Chance To Grow has nine programs. They are: The Turnquist Child Enrichment Center, Home Based Services, an Outpatient Rehabilitation Clinic, a Neurophysiological Rehabilitation program (NPR), an Auditory Clinic, an Optometry Clinic, a Neurotechnology Clinic, the Minnesota Learning Resource Center and the Kretsch Family Brain Resource Library.
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Q: What is Home Based Services?
A: Home Based Services provides services for children and young adults in the Twin Cities metro area with serious brain injuries or developmental delays who receive care in their homes.
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Q: How many clients does the ACTG Home Based Services program have?
A: There are 115 children and young adults who receive care through the program. Over 276 personal care attendants (PCAs) work with four registered nurses and a medical doctor to provide the assistance our clients require.
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Q: How does the Home Based Services program work?
A: The ACTG staff works with the client and family to assure every aspect of the patients care is provided for.
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Q: What is Boost Up?
A: Boost Up is a proven, nationally replicated program that increases children's reading achievements. After doing 80 hours of balance/vestibular, gross, fine motor and visual acuity exercises, children make a six-monthreading gain on average. Boost Up incorporates music, obstacle courses, games, spinning, rolling and many other activities to accelerate student learning.
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Q: What is the Turnquist Child Enrichment Center?
A: The Turnquist Child Enrichment Center is one of only 12 Hennepin County "Strong Beginnings" childcare centers, meaning Turnquist supports the belief that learning begins at birth. Children are eligible for enrollment in Turnquist Child Enrichment Center if they are between the ages of six weeks and twelve years old, provided programming and enrollment space exists. The center is licensed by the Department of Human Services to serve 66 children.
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Q: What do I need to know about the Turnquist Child Enrichment Center?
A: Trudy Turnquist started the Center in 1999. The Turnquist Center partners with Edison High School and Broadway High School on a teen pregnancy program called "Baby Space."
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Q: What is the Outpatient Rehabilitation clinic?
A: This clinic offers speech/language, occupational, physical therapy and NPR to its' clients.
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Q: What does NPR stand for?
A: NPR stands for Neurophysiological Rehabilitation. NPR therapists evaluate a child's neurological and physiological well being by assessing visual, auditory and tactile systems, as well as their mobility, language and manual dexterity.
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Q: What does the ACTG Optometry Clinic offer?
A: The Optometry clinic offers vision therapy for children with learning problems related to vision. The clinic also offers traditional eye exams and corrective lenses for children and adults. It is open to the general public and accepts most health insurance plans.
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Q: What is the NeuroTechnology Clinic all about?
A: The Neurotechnology Clinic helps children with attention deficit, hyperactivity and other behavioral and emotional problems learn to relax, focus and attend. ACTG's Neurotechnology Clinic uses drug-free techniques, such as Audio Visual Enrainment (A.V.E.) and EEG Neurotechnology, to help improve brain function in children and adults.
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Q: What is EEG Neurofeedback and Audio Visual Entrainment?
A: Audio Visual Entrainment (AVE) and Electro Encephalographic (EEG) Neurofeedback are technologies that help children with academic, emotional and behavioral issues. These two forms of Neurotechnology allow children to relax and learn to focus by training their brain to work more efficiently at certain brainwave frequencies.
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Q: What is the Kretsch Family Brain Resource Library?
A: The Kretsch Family Brain Resource Library is a resource center for parents and professionals offering over 1,000 books, videos and journals that cover everything from autism to learning disabilities to adult head injury.
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Q: What is the Minnesota Learning Resource Center (MLRC)?
A: The Minnesota Learning Resource Center (MLRC) offers programs to all professionals who work with children. These programs help children with learning problems and increase their school readiness skills. The MLRC’s programs include Stimulating Maturity through Accelerated Readiness Training (S.M.A.R.T.), S.M.A.R.T. Pre-K, Hemisphere Specific Auditory Stimulation (H.S.A.S.) and Neurotechnology. Visit Workshops and Special Events to learn about upcoming workshops that will teach you how to make MLRC programs part of your profession.
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Q: What programs are replicated during the MLRC training workshops?
A: The Minnesota Learning Resource Center provides training and mentoring on SMART/ Boost - Up, neurotechnology and the auditory program.
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