Clinical Therapy
The Calo therapeutic model is based on the belief that most emotional and many behavioral disturbances in young people respond best to attachment, relationship interventions.
The Calo model is based on the principles of commitment, acceptance, security, and attunement.
Animal Assisted Therapy
Often, students will experience making mistakes with the canines and experience feelings of empathy, love, and acceptance as the canine quickly forgives and provides unconditional love. This allows the student to practice safe and healthy attachment, with the ultimate goal of transferring those relationship skills to safe human relationships (transferable attachment).
Neurotherapy
Neurofeedback (NFB) is electroencephalography (EEG)-biofeedback; it measures electrical brain-wave activity then transforms the frequencies into a digital signal which allows a computer to feed back the information to a student through video and sound. Its
Occupational Therapy
Developmental trauma can impact a student’s sense of self, ability to self-regulate emotions, modulation of sensory information from the environment, and the executive functioning skills needed to engage in these occupations of childhood. Occupational Therapy practitioners have specialized training in task analysis and environmental modification to optimize the child-environment-occupation fit in a student’s home, school, and community settings.
Residential Therapy
The advantage of residential care is almost total “variable” control. Calo controls all variables in a given child’s life while they are in treatment.
Academics
To help our struggling learners, we provide differentiated instruction in a classroom setting led by Missouri-certified teachers. Our small class sizes of 6-10 students allow our teachers, coaches, and tutors to get to know students well.