Wediko has a forty year history of delivering innovative clinical and educational services to children whose behavior has become increasingly dysfunctional.  The agency has made significant contributions in the areas of short term residential treatment methods, psycho-educational programming and highly specialized educational plans.  Wediko is considered an expert in its work with multiple problem children, high-risk adoptive children and children showing a broad range of attention deficit disorders.  Senior Wediko staff are regular contributors to the professional literature regarding children's social perception, judgment and behavior.

The clinical reach of Wediko's all-encompassing environment wraps around the distressed child whose social and academic progress is moving progressively off-line.  

This highly structured , enriching and attractive setting builds an atmosphere of safety and accountability which steers functioning in more age-appropriate directions.  Wediko assumes that children with pervasive histories of failure, frustration and fractured attempts at success have developed protective arrays of symptomatic behavior which have thwarted previous helping and educational efforts.

To gain access to these self-defeating children, so typically resistant to the best that families and schools have to offer, Wediko implements a detailed multi-model treatment plan.  This plan immediately contends with maladaptive behavior while stimulating the possibility of new and more productive functioning.

Intricately detailed educational plans are dovetailed with demanding, yet nurturing social competency development programs.  A staff: to child ratio of 1:2 insures the formation of corrective emotional relationships, consistent implementation of treatment plans and predictable delivery of feedback which describes problematic as well as productive sequences of behavior.  This continuous stream of staff feedback channels each child towards acquiring increasingly accurate observation skills.  Gradually, the children form causal connections between internal and external events which then establish frameworks for more effective self control.  

Wediko's incentive systems and psycho-educational programming encourage every child to experience trying, trying again, succeeding, having fun and becoming more masterful.  Children cannot escape success at Wediko.  This process of trying, failing, bouncing back and achieving leads to a piece-by-piece restructuring of damaged self-esteem. 

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