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Rick Harper

"Behaviour Strategist"
"Parent Coach"
"Teacher"

2720 Rath Street
Putnam, Ontario
NOL 2BO

Phone: (519) 485-4678
Fax: (519) 485-0281

Email: Info@rickharper.ca

About Rick

Rick is a retired school teacher with 32 years classroom experience. The vast majority of those years was working with special needs children ranging in age from 4 to 21 and diagnosed with conditions such as:

Learning disabled
Psychiatric disorders eg. ADHD, Tourettes syndrome, conduct disorder, autism, obsessive compulsive disorder, etc
Developmentally disabled
Emotionally disturbed
Young offenders
Chronically & Terminally ill
Physically disabled

He has taught classrooms within:

Children's mental health treatment centres
Detention centres
Hospitals
Residential institutions
Regular schools

Rick began his own consulting business in 1995 dedicated to training parents how to assess and manage their own children's behaviour problems in their own home. A significant part of this business is conducting workshops for:

School boards
Children's Aid Societies
Community colleges
Day care centres
Church groups

Rick and his wife Marlene have 2 grown children and are long time foster parents who have opened their home to many special needs children ranging in age from newborns to teens.

Rick's entire professional life has been devoted to helping kids who have significant behaviour problems. His goal has been to take the theories developed by the academics and figure out practical ways to implement them in ordinary homes and classrooms.