MindWing Concepts’ COVID-19 Prevention & Support Policy
MindWing Concepts, Inc. is a small, family business founded by speech language pathologist Maryellen Rooney Moreau in 1994 to pursue her passion: helping students to think, communicate, learn and tell their stories.
As a result of the shutdowns and quarantines due to COVID19, the Social Emotional Learning and Growth of our children is more important than ever. It is vital for children to be empowered and equipped to tell their stories as well as to share their thoughts, feelings and plans! Braidy®, Story Grammar Marker® and our other tools can facilitate that. When faced with the school shutdowns during the COVID19 Pandemic, we modified our model and implemented new policies in order to prevent spread of COVID19 while still offering support, instructional materials, and learning opportunities.
For more than 25 years, we have provided in-person, on-site professional development and mentoring as well as selling instructional materials to school districts, organizations, private practices, and individual parents and educators. In addition to shutting down our office during quarantine, we have implemented all state and federal safety and health mandates related to COVID19 Prevention that apply to our business.
We have expanded and improved our ability to support colleagues and customers remotely to limit contact with and exposure to COVID19 by offering:
- VIDEO CONFERENCE PD: We have transformed our in-person, on-site workshops into Zoom sessions and we have coordinated materials to be delivered to participants. We have done one-day, two-day and half-day video conference workshops with small group work, large group demonstrations, modeling and assignments. Although in-person training is always the best — especially for communication and hands-on tools such as ours, we have gotten incredibly good feedback about the Zoom sessions. We also are offering mentoring sessions as well. Schedule yours TODAY: https://mindwingconcepts.com/pages/contact
- 9 FREE WEBINARS: In late March, we started the Connecting With MindWing During COVID19 Free Webinar Series. Since then, we have presented and made On Demand versions of 9 (NEW!) FREE Webinars that are available at https://mindwingconcepts.com/pages/webinars. This adds to our portfolio of FREE webinars, making a total of 14 available on topics such as Trauma Sensitive Distance Learning, use of animation in therapy, social emotional learning, documentation and progress monitoring, tele-therapy and MORE!
- 33 VIDEO SESSIONS & FREE DOWNLOADS: Maryellen has presented thirty-three 15-20 minute FREE video sessions on FaceBook that include FREE downloadable lessons – they are available at: https://www.facebook.com/pg/mindwingconcepts/videos/ – these are also linked on our website.
- DIGITAL ICONS and IMAGES: You can now purchase for download hundreds of full color, high quality DIGITAL ICONS and IMAGES for Braidy the StoryBraid®, Story Grammar Marker®, and ThemeMaker® including permission to use with students for tele-practice and on distance learning platforms, found here: https://mindwingconcepts.com/collections/icon-downloads
COMING SOON!
- Opportunities for INDIVIDUAL PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS to attend online, video conference-based Professional Development sessions
- Special DHH and SLP friendly MASKS, as well as special Back To School packets for communicating about the Pandemic, the shutdowns, and the new procedures in place
- Braidy® and SGM® Parent Guide! This downloadable guide will contain topics such as: Turn Bedtime Stories into Next Day Learning, Make A Dinner Conversation Into An Academic Conversation, Me vs You: Resolving Conflicts Among Siblings and Peers, Teach Writing on the Side of Your Fridge, Simple Homework Tricks and MORE!
- Membership Program with perks such as: special discounted pricing, twice-a-month full lesson downloads, exclusive access to private Moments With Maryellen & MindWing FaceBook page, access to special webinars, and MORE! A fantastic way to stay connected and cutting edge!