Vice President & General Counsel, COHU INC
Specialized support for children with disabilities — interview with Emily Lough
Emily Lough of Calgary speaks about the service provider's perspective in the Program Unit Funding (PUF)/Family Support for ...
About Emily Lough
Emily Lough, Vice President and General Counsel at Cohu, was interviewed in 2011 about a pilot project providing specialized support for children with disabilities. Lough said the project had enabled positive relationships with her pilot partners and improved communication among them. She stated that the initiative allowed professionals to discuss the child as a whole rather than focusing separately on school and home activities. Lough expressed support for expanding the project provincewide. She also noted that she had observed children learning skills at school and generalizing them to the home, and she described the value of helping parents understand what their child is doing at school so those skills can be made functional at home.
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I think that this pilot project has really enabled the relationships that I have with the pilot partners to be really positive and really increase the way in which we communicate with each other. It's just been so nice to sit down and all in one room and just discuss the child because it's not just so segmented anymore to what the child's doing at school and what the child's doing at home. We can talk about the child as a whole. I would definitely support this project going provincewide. I just love how I've been able to see the kids learn the skills not only in the school but be able to generalize them to the home as well because so often the kids are learning skills at school and the parents have no idea what they're doing at school. So it's so nice to be able to say this is what your child's doing at school, let's generalize it to the home and make it functional for them there.