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Legally free, TRE’VON (7/94) is very cute with dark brown, wavy hair, big brown eyes, and winning smile. He is smart, too, and has the skills to communicate well with adults. He loves sports and enjoyed being a water boy for a local basketball team in the past. Skateboarding and basketball are some of his favorite pastimes. He wants to be adopted and would like a family with a Mom and a Dad and maybe a sister and brother. He is unsure about pets – maybe a dog. He likes reading and Calvin and Hobbs comics are favorite reads, as well as Among the Hidden, and the all of the Harry Potter. He plays Pokeman on Nintendo. Chores don't thrill him, but he does clean his room.

To try to get a better handle on his special needs and determine what services would be most helpful to him, and evaluation was done at a FAS diagnostic clinic in early 2006. Tre’Von cooperated very nicely with the team of evaluators during the lengthy evaluation, and it soon became apparent to them that Tre’Von has some real strengths – strengths that include very good verbal and listening skills, intelligence, and the ability and willingness to work hard at things he enjoys.

Because he readily picks up cues about how to behave from the people around him and TV and video games, he needs to have heroes and role models in real life and in entertainment that he can observe interacting with others in socially positive ways. Adults who are adept and creative about employing explicit teaching styles, such as role modeling, and educational activities, such as games and sports, are able to teach Tre’Von. And they provide important keys to helping him become more age appropriate and independent. Tre’Von continues to benefit from mental health counseling and medication therapy, which is closely monitored.

At home and at school, Tre’Von does best with consistent structure, clear rules, expectations, and limits, as well as consequences. It’s important for him to know ahead of time the consequences of his behavior. Tre also benefits from having regular periods of strenuous physical activity. Participation in sports and other activities such as running, swinging, sliding, and climbing can be great expenders of energy. He usually gets along well with older children and adults, especially adults who stick to the rules and are not swayed when Tre' tries to get over, around, and under the rules.

Helping Tre’Von learn problem solving tools and organizational skills can be implemented by playing games with him that use logic and memory skills, such as 20 Questions, Concentration, or Dutch Blitz, etc. Teaching new concepts using a story format that links some familiar context or everyday activity seems to help him to retain information better, too.

Monitoring Tre’Von for signs of low self-esteem, feelings of hopelessness or helplessness, or increasing performance anxiety are important in helping him head off problems.

Many children with issues such as Tre’Von has benefit from having a positive relationship with a school-based mentor or “safe adult” so when they hit the teen years and needs someone to talk with outside of family a relationship already exists.

Experienced couples or single dads and moms, if you genuinely like teenagers and are willing to learn about how to parent a child with Tre’s background, please call us. You may be the one to make a significance difference in this boy’s life.


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