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So often in our society children become labeled with misguided diagnosis to fit them into a sociatle norm. A perfect example of this would be when a child is removed from a parents supervision by social services, that child is then sent for a psych evaluation and there at that moment the childs’ life becomes damaged irreparably. That child is given a label and that label become part of who that child becomes. When we tell children that they are a certain way, or that they have a certain problem, those children have an uncanny ability to live up to the label be it just or not.
Labels are designed by the insurance companies, the insurance company must fit us all into a box of labels in order to provide benefits we pay for. I say we hire the insurance company, therefore they work for us and we should have a say in what is provided by the medical professionals not by the pencil pushers scampering for labels to put in boxes and on forms to only to ultimately deny us services. We need to take back our civil liberty to be label free Americans.
At Zuma’s we strip the children that come to us of those labels and give them a clean slate, give them the opportunity to be label free. We are a label free zone for kids once though to be: bi-polar, manic-depressive, depressed, autistic, you name it. At Zuma’s while we are aware of the diagnosis, we treat the child with no expectations, we give them the opportunity to show us who they are through guided activities. We do not have preconceived notions based on the label give them by insurance companies needing everything to be neat and in the box.
Zuma’s Experiential Learning Center is run by certified behavior analyst trained to manage how children deal with the world they live in. We design programs not to change children but to mold how they cope with the world. After all it is coping with their environments that children need, not labels to live up to.
Outdoors, Horses, Experiential Treatments……..Out of the Box approach to age old problems. ZUMA’S
Guided Behavior Analysis
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