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Giving Keiki A Little TLC With The Transforming Lives Center
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Lee, a neural psychologist, who has more than a decade of experience in psychology and its related fields, as well as a supervised group of post-doc/graduate students and interns. When the idea for the Transforming Lives Center came about, Assets and its partners discussed a mutually beneficial mod- el that would help families and future mental health care providers.
help them learn to the best of their ability. If there are gaps in a student’s learning, the center is there to help figure out why.
Offerings will be robust, ranging from ADHD and dyslexia screenings to more comprehensive exams like psycho-educational assess- ments — basically anything and everything to meet a child where they’ re at and
“Parents will ask what they did wrong, and we tell them they didn’t do any- thing wrong; there’s nothing wrong with your child,” he says. “We don’t fix kids be- cause they’ re not broken.”
looks at each child as an in- dividual and provides per- sonalized instruction and tools to help them succeed.
need people who think about the world differently. People who learn different are really innovative.”
resources for families and kids who learn differently, there aren’t many in Ha- wai‘i,” Masa says.
When a child learns dif- ferently, their family goes on that journey with them, and Masa notes that many turn to Assets during times of high stress and frustra- tion when they feel a sense of guilt or shame at the cir- cumstance.
Ryan Masa stands in front of Assets School’s Transforming Lives Center, which is slated to open later this month at the K-8 campus.
ganization that helps them see themselves for how they truly are and help them find their tribe, that’s the part of my job I love.”
For more information, vis- it assets-school.org; and to inquire about a Transforming Lives Center assessment, email appointment@assets-school. org.
And that’s the magic of Assets, and, by extension, its Transforming Lives Cen- ter. The educational model
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“It’s about understanding, acceptance and affirmation because we’ re all different,” he adds. “The spice of life is that we’ re not all the same. Diversity is a good thing. We talk about these challenges we face as a society, and we
To train up the state’s future innovators, children who are part of the Assets ‘ohana are equipped with the tools to take control of their learning and the assur- ance that they’ re not alone.
“For these kids, marginalized, draw inac- curate conclusions about themselves; they’ve been given negative feedback or they look at classmates and see how they’ re not match- ingup.Tobepartofanor-
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“It’s a win, win, win,” Masa says. “Assets gets to advance its mission and these grad students get a re- ally great training site and can learn under the super- vision of Dr. Lee. We get to help the next generation of psychologists train and not only do assessments but also sit with parents and go over results with them. And by using this model, we help make testing affordable for families.”
“It’s really individualized, and we look at it holistical- ly,” Masa says. “We listen to the people on that child’s team — parents, teachers, etc. — and be a detective, providing assessments that will give more answers. Once we have that, we can start helping that team and build a road map of success for the child.”
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