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The Stepping Stones Framework

An individualized, tailored framework: highly effective support for however long it is needed, whether that's one year or ten.

Every student moves through the same six corner stones, at their own pace, with a plan built around their specific needs at the moment and overcoming the chaos and crisis in their lives, since it is not a one-size curriculum for all.

01

Understanding the
Issue Together

Start building a partnership through demystification: identifying the emotional dysregulation, demand avoidance, executive functioning gaps, academic struggles, and the real reasons behind them.

Initial Sessions
02

Build the
Toolbox

Targeted work on the specific executive functioning subsets holding your child back, building the routines and systems needed while testing each new tool right away to see what sticks and what needs to be adjusted.

Initial Sessions
03

Application &
Practice

New and existing tools are applied to actual school assignments, deadlines, and responsibilities while the client builds a stable footing under real-world pressures, tracking what's working and adjusting what isn't.

Moving Forward
04

Timely Course
Corrections

Your practitioner acts as mission control: monitoring the student's trajectory, celebrating every win, shielding them from unfair expectations, and stepping in to redirect whenever the client drifts off course.

As Needed
05

Add & Learn
More Tools

As skills develop, your practitioner shifts from mission control to co-pilot, letting the student take the controls, while the toolbox is strengthened with new tools added, each tied to the demands and course correction needed.

Ongoing
06

Launch Into
Success

The practitioner steps back as the student takes control of managing their own learning, showing independence, confidence, and ability, while still having access to appropriate support from ESS when needed.

Milestone
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