Policies and Procedures

Gesell Program in Early Childhood believes that all children deserve the right to and opportunity for appropriate educational experiences during the early years. Gesell Program assessments do not discriminate on the basis of language, race, ethnicity, or economic status. Furthermore, the Program discourages the practice of excluding children from school programs on the basis of any assessment or screening tool. The Gesell Early Screener (GES), the Gesell Developmental Observation-Revised (GDO-R), or any single instrument, should never be used as the sole determinant of a child’s placement in school. In making educational decisions for a child, multiple assessments, including parent observations, teacher observations, medical history, and a portfolio of a child’s work should be used to make decisions about a child’s educational requirements.

The GDO-R is a standardized assessment designed to provide educators and parents important information about a child’s development. The child’s responses to various tasks provides an indication of the child’s Developmental Age and an overview of maturity, strengths, and weaknesses in relationship to learning academic skills.

Gesell Cancels: Gesell Program reserves the right to cancel training events due to low registration or other unforeseen circumstances up to two weeks before the start date. In the event of a cancellation, registrants will be notified and every effort will be made to find an alternative location or date that suits the needs of the registrant. When this is not possible, registrants will receive a full refund.

Substitutions: Participant substitutions may be made in writing 5 business days prior to the start of a training event.

Transfers: Participants transfers to a future workshop may be made in writing 5 business days prior to the start of a training event.

Participant Cancels: Reimbursements are only offered for registrants requesting to cancel if a cancellation is received in writing 2 weeks prior to the workshop date. If a registrant cancellation is not received in writing 2 weeks prior to the workshop date, a credit will be offered for a future workshop. Participant substitutions may be made within the same school.

The IRS allows an income tax deduction for educational expenses (including enrollment fees and the cost of travel and lodging) for courses taken to maintain or improve skills required in your employment or business.

Because our workshops are international, we unfortunately cannot manage the process of ensuring application of our certificate of completion to every state, country, and board process available to our participants. However, our experience is that by submitting our certificate of completion, many entities will apply your credits. We are happy to assist in providing information or documentation for our trainings.

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